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What does the term 'frugal' mean?
What does the term 'frugal' mean?
Which word best describes a person who is 'obsequious'?
Which word best describes a person who is 'obsequious'?
What is the meaning of 'malign'?
What is the meaning of 'malign'?
What does 'inconspicuously' imply?
What does 'inconspicuously' imply?
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What does 'copious' mean?
What does 'copious' mean?
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The new employee was very ___________________ and was able to solve the complex problem efficiently.
The new employee was very ___________________ and was able to solve the complex problem efficiently.
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The tourist got lost in the ___________________ streets of the old city.
The tourist got lost in the ___________________ streets of the old city.
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The new policy aims to ___________________ the negative impact of the company's actions on the environment.
The new policy aims to ___________________ the negative impact of the company's actions on the environment.
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The ___________________ chef carefully selected the freshest ingredients for the recipe.
The ___________________ chef carefully selected the freshest ingredients for the recipe.
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The company's decision to lay off 10% of its staff was ___________________ to a declaration of war.
The company's decision to lay off 10% of its staff was ___________________ to a declaration of war.
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Which word best describes a person who is excessively eager to please and obey someone?
Which word best describes a person who is excessively eager to please and obey someone?
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Which word describes a person who is likely to be stubborn and argumentative?
Which word describes a person who is likely to be stubborn and argumentative?
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Which word best describes the act of hiding something or acting in a secret way?
Which word best describes the act of hiding something or acting in a secret way?
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Which word describes something that is easily understood or readily perceived?
Which word describes something that is easily understood or readily perceived?
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Which word describes a statement or argument that is false or misleading?
Which word describes a statement or argument that is false or misleading?
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Which word best describes a person who is excessively enthusiastic and bubbly?
Which word best describes a person who is excessively enthusiastic and bubbly?
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Which word best describes a person who acts in a way that is rude and disrespectful, often in a casual or offhand manner?
Which word best describes a person who acts in a way that is rude and disrespectful, often in a casual or offhand manner?
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Which word best describes a person who is excessively eager to please and obey someone, often to the point of being submissive?
Which word best describes a person who is excessively eager to please and obey someone, often to the point of being submissive?
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Which word best describes a person who is very cautious and careful in their actions and decisions?
Which word best describes a person who is very cautious and careful in their actions and decisions?
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Which word best describes something that is extremely large or impressive, often to the point of being exaggerated?
Which word best describes something that is extremely large or impressive, often to the point of being exaggerated?
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Which word describes a situation where someone is reluctant to take action or make a decision?
Which word describes a situation where someone is reluctant to take action or make a decision?
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Which term refers to a view or approach that is diverse and varied in character or content?
Which term refers to a view or approach that is diverse and varied in character or content?
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Which word indicates a behavior that is excessively apologetic or eager to please?
Which word indicates a behavior that is excessively apologetic or eager to please?
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What term best suggests an extravagant or pompous display that may not have substantial value?
What term best suggests an extravagant or pompous display that may not have substantial value?
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Which term describes actions that are carried out in a deceitfully secretive manner?
Which term describes actions that are carried out in a deceitfully secretive manner?
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Which word best describes a person who is excessively cautious and careful in their actions and decisions?
Which word best describes a person who is excessively cautious and careful in their actions and decisions?
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Which word best describes a statement or argument that is false or misleading?
Which word best describes a statement or argument that is false or misleading?
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Which word best describes an action that is carried out in a deceitfully secretive manner?
Which word best describes an action that is carried out in a deceitfully secretive manner?
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Which word best describes a person who is excessively enthusiastic and bubbly?
Which word best describes a person who is excessively enthusiastic and bubbly?
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Which word best describes a person who is very eager to please and obey someone, often to the point of being submissive?
Which word best describes a person who is very eager to please and obey someone, often to the point of being submissive?
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Which word best describes a person who acts in a way that is rude and disrespectful, often in a casual or offhand manner?
Which word best describes a person who acts in a way that is rude and disrespectful, often in a casual or offhand manner?
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Which word best describes something that is extremely large or impressive, often to the point of being exaggerated?
Which word best describes something that is extremely large or impressive, often to the point of being exaggerated?
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Which word describes a situation where someone is reluctant to take action or make a decision?
Which word describes a situation where someone is reluctant to take action or make a decision?
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Which word best describes a person who is very cautious and careful in their actions and decisions?
Which word best describes a person who is very cautious and careful in their actions and decisions?
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Which word best describes an action that is carried out in a deceitfully secretive manner?
Which word best describes an action that is carried out in a deceitfully secretive manner?
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What does the word 'perspicacious' imply about a person's ability?
What does the word 'perspicacious' imply about a person's ability?
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Which word best describes a situation where someone is reluctant to take action or make a decision?
Which word best describes a situation where someone is reluctant to take action or make a decision?
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What does the word 'ebullient' describe?
What does the word 'ebullient' describe?
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What does the word 'heterogeneous' describe?
What does the word 'heterogeneous' describe?
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What does the word 'obfuscate' imply about a person's actions?
What does the word 'obfuscate' imply about a person's actions?
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Study Notes
Vocabulary Building
- Accost: to approach and speak to someone in a friendly or aggressive way
- Acknowledge: to accept or admit the existence or truth of something
- Compensate: to give something, especially money, in exchange for something else
- Copious: abundant or plentiful in supply or quantity
- Culinary: related to food or cooking
- Decimate: to reduce something, especially a population, by a large amount
- Defer: to delay or put off something until a later time
- Ebullient: feeling or showing enthusiasm and excitement
- Effervescent: bubbly or lively, often used to describe someone's personality
Important Words to Know
- Frugal: careful with money and not wasteful
- Grandiose: impressive or magnificent, often used to describe something that is extravagant
- Heterogeneous: consisting of different kinds of things
- Homogeneous: consisting of the same kind of things
- Immutable: unchanging or unable to be changed
- Impertinently: in a rude or impolite way
- Inconspicuously: in a way that is not easily noticed
- Ingeniously: in a clever or inventive way
- Inquisitively: in a curious or questioning way
Advanced Vocabulary
- Judiciously: in a wise or discerning way
- Justify: to show or prove that something is reasonable or right
- Litigate: to take legal action against someone or something
- Malign: to speak or write badly about someone or something
- Mawkish: excessively sentimental or emotional
- Obfuscate: to make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Obnoxiously: in a rude or annoying way
- Obsequious: excessively willing to please or obey
- Parsimonious: extremely unwilling to spend money or give away resources
- Perspicacious: having a keen understanding and insight
Challenging Words
- Reluctantly: in a hesitant or unwilling way
- Solemnly: in a serious or dignified manner
- Spurious: not genuine or fake
- Surreptitious: done secretly or without being noticed
- Tantamount: equivalent or amounting to something
- Truculent: aggressive or brutal
- Unethically: in a way that is morally wrong or dishonest
- Visceral: relating to the instincts or emotions rather than reason
Vocabulary Building
- Accost: to approach and speak to someone in a friendly or aggressive way
- Acknowledge: to accept or admit the existence or truth of something
- Compensate: to give something, especially money, in exchange for something else
- Copious: abundant or plentiful in supply or quantity
- Culinary: related to food or cooking
- Decimate: to reduce something, especially a population, by a large amount
- Defer: to delay or put off something until a later time
- Ebullient: feeling or showing enthusiasm and excitement
- Effervescent: bubbly or lively, often used to describe someone's personality
Important Words to Know
- Frugal: careful with money and not wasteful
- Grandiose: impressive or magnificent, often used to describe something that is extravagant
- Heterogeneous: consisting of different kinds of things
- Homogeneous: consisting of the same kind of things
- Immutable: unchanging or unable to be changed
- Impertinently: in a rude or impolite way
- Inconspicuously: in a way that is not easily noticed
- Ingeniously: in a clever or inventive way
- Inquisitively: in a curious or questioning way
Advanced Vocabulary
- Judiciously: in a wise or discerning way
- Justify: to show or prove that something is reasonable or right
- Litigate: to take legal action against someone or something
- Malign: to speak or write badly about someone or something
- Mawkish: excessively sentimental or emotional
- Obfuscate: to make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Obnoxiously: in a rude or annoying way
- Obsequious: excessively willing to please or obey
- Parsimonious: extremely unwilling to spend money or give away resources
- Perspicacious: having a keen understanding and insight
Challenging Words
- Reluctantly: in a hesitant or unwilling way
- Solemnly: in a serious or dignified manner
- Spurious: not genuine or fake
- Surreptitious: done secretly or without being noticed
- Tantamount: equivalent or amounting to something
- Truculent: aggressive or brutal
- Unethically: in a way that is morally wrong or dishonest
- Visceral: relating to the instincts or emotions rather than reason
Vocabulary Building
- Accost: to approach and speak to someone in a friendly or aggressive way
- Acknowledge: to accept or admit the existence or truth of something
- Compensate: to give something, especially money, in exchange for something else
- Copious: abundant or plentiful in supply or quantity
- Culinary: related to food or cooking
- Decimate: to reduce something, especially a population, by a large amount
- Defer: to delay or put off something until a later time
- Ebullient: feeling or showing enthusiasm and excitement
- Effervescent: bubbly or lively, often used to describe someone's personality
Important Words to Know
- Frugal: careful with money and not wasteful
- Grandiose: impressive or magnificent, often used to describe something that is extravagant
- Heterogeneous: consisting of different kinds of things
- Homogeneous: consisting of the same kind of things
- Immutable: unchanging or unable to be changed
- Impertinently: in a rude or impolite way
- Inconspicuously: in a way that is not easily noticed
- Ingeniously: in a clever or inventive way
- Inquisitively: in a curious or questioning way
Advanced Vocabulary
- Judiciously: in a wise or discerning way
- Justify: to show or prove that something is reasonable or right
- Litigate: to take legal action against someone or something
- Malign: to speak or write badly about someone or something
- Mawkish: excessively sentimental or emotional
- Obfuscate: to make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Obnoxiously: in a rude or annoying way
- Obsequious: excessively willing to please or obey
- Parsimonious: extremely unwilling to spend money or give away resources
- Perspicacious: having a keen understanding and insight
Challenging Words
- Reluctantly: in a hesitant or unwilling way
- Solemnly: in a serious or dignified manner
- Spurious: not genuine or fake
- Surreptitious: done secretly or without being noticed
- Tantamount: equivalent or amounting to something
- Truculent: aggressive or brutal
- Unethically: in a way that is morally wrong or dishonest
- Visceral: relating to the instincts or emotions rather than reason
Vocabulary Building
- Accost: to approach and speak to someone in a friendly or aggressive way
- Acknowledge: to accept or admit the existence or truth of something
- Compensate: to give something, especially money, in exchange for something else
- Copious: abundant or plentiful in supply or quantity
- Culinary: related to food or cooking
- Decimate: to reduce something, especially a population, by a large amount
- Defer: to delay or put off something until a later time
- Ebullient: feeling or showing enthusiasm and excitement
- Effervescent: bubbly or lively, often used to describe someone's personality
Important Words to Know
- Frugal: careful with money and not wasteful
- Grandiose: impressive or magnificent, often used to describe something that is extravagant
- Heterogeneous: consisting of different kinds of things
- Homogeneous: consisting of the same kind of things
- Immutable: unchanging or unable to be changed
- Impertinently: in a rude or impolite way
- Inconspicuously: in a way that is not easily noticed
- Ingeniously: in a clever or inventive way
- Inquisitively: in a curious or questioning way
Advanced Vocabulary
- Judiciously: in a wise or discerning way
- Justify: to show or prove that something is reasonable or right
- Litigate: to take legal action against someone or something
- Malign: to speak or write badly about someone or something
- Mawkish: excessively sentimental or emotional
- Obfuscate: to make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Obnoxiously: in a rude or annoying way
- Obsequious: excessively willing to please or obey
- Parsimonious: extremely unwilling to spend money or give away resources
- Perspicacious: having a keen understanding and insight
Challenging Words
- Reluctantly: in a hesitant or unwilling way
- Solemnly: in a serious or dignified manner
- Spurious: not genuine or fake
- Surreptitious: done secretly or without being noticed
- Tantamount: equivalent or amounting to something
- Truculent: aggressive or brutal
- Unethically: in a way that is morally wrong or dishonest
- Visceral: relating to the instincts or emotions rather than reason
Vocabulary Building
- Accost: to approach and speak to someone in a friendly or aggressive way
- Acknowledge: to accept or admit the existence or truth of something
- Compensate: to give something, especially money, in exchange for something else
- Copious: abundant or plentiful in supply or quantity
- Culinary: related to food or cooking
- Decimate: to reduce something, especially a population, by a large amount
- Defer: to delay or put off something until a later time
- Ebullient: feeling or showing enthusiasm and excitement
- Effervescent: bubbly or lively, often used to describe someone's personality
Important Words to Know
- Frugal: careful with money and not wasteful
- Grandiose: impressive or magnificent, often used to describe something that is extravagant
- Heterogeneous: consisting of different kinds of things
- Homogeneous: consisting of the same kind of things
- Immutable: unchanging or unable to be changed
- Impertinently: in a rude or impolite way
- Inconspicuously: in a way that is not easily noticed
- Ingeniously: in a clever or inventive way
- Inquisitively: in a curious or questioning way
Advanced Vocabulary
- Judiciously: in a wise or discerning way
- Justify: to show or prove that something is reasonable or right
- Litigate: to take legal action against someone or something
- Malign: to speak or write badly about someone or something
- Mawkish: excessively sentimental or emotional
- Obfuscate: to make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Obnoxiously: in a rude or annoying way
- Obsequious: excessively willing to please or obey
- Parsimonious: extremely unwilling to spend money or give away resources
- Perspicacious: having a keen understanding and insight
Challenging Words
- Reluctantly: in a hesitant or unwilling way
- Solemnly: in a serious or dignified manner
- Spurious: not genuine or fake
- Surreptitious: done secretly or without being noticed
- Tantamount: equivalent or amounting to something
- Truculent: aggressive or brutal
- Unethically: in a way that is morally wrong or dishonest
- Visceral: relating to the instincts or emotions rather than reason
Vocabulary Building
- Accost: to approach and speak to someone in a friendly or aggressive way
- Acknowledge: to accept or admit the existence or truth of something
- Compensate: to give something, especially money, in exchange for something else
- Copious: abundant or plentiful in supply or quantity
- Culinary: related to food or cooking
- Decimate: to reduce something, especially a population, by a large amount
- Defer: to delay or put off something until a later time
- Ebullient: feeling or showing enthusiasm and excitement
- Effervescent: bubbly or lively, often used to describe someone's personality
Important Words to Know
- Frugal: careful with money and not wasteful
- Grandiose: impressive or magnificent, often used to describe something that is extravagant
- Heterogeneous: consisting of different kinds of things
- Homogeneous: consisting of the same kind of things
- Immutable: unchanging or unable to be changed
- Impertinently: in a rude or impolite way
- Inconspicuously: in a way that is not easily noticed
- Ingeniously: in a clever or inventive way
- Inquisitively: in a curious or questioning way
Advanced Vocabulary
- Judiciously: in a wise or discerning way
- Justify: to show or prove that something is reasonable or right
- Litigate: to take legal action against someone or something
- Malign: to speak or write badly about someone or something
- Mawkish: excessively sentimental or emotional
- Obfuscate: to make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Obnoxiously: in a rude or annoying way
- Obsequious: excessively willing to please or obey
- Parsimonious: extremely unwilling to spend money or give away resources
- Perspicacious: having a keen understanding and insight
Challenging Words
- Reluctantly: in a hesitant or unwilling way
- Solemnly: in a serious or dignified manner
- Spurious: not genuine or fake
- Surreptitious: done secretly or without being noticed
- Tantamount: equivalent or amounting to something
- Truculent: aggressive or brutal
- Unethically: in a way that is morally wrong or dishonest
- Visceral: relating to the instincts or emotions rather than reason
Vocabulary Building
- Accost: to approach and speak to someone in a friendly or aggressive way
- Acknowledge: to accept or admit the existence or truth of something
- Compensate: to give something, especially money, in exchange for something else
- Copious: abundant or plentiful in supply or quantity
- Culinary: related to food or cooking
- Decimate: to reduce something, especially a population, by a large amount
- Defer: to delay or put off something until a later time
- Ebullient: feeling or showing enthusiasm and excitement
- Effervescent: bubbly or lively, often used to describe someone's personality
Important Words to Know
- Frugal: careful with money and not wasteful
- Grandiose: impressive or magnificent, often used to describe something that is extravagant
- Heterogeneous: consisting of different kinds of things
- Homogeneous: consisting of the same kind of things
- Immutable: unchanging or unable to be changed
- Impertinently: in a rude or impolite way
- Inconspicuously: in a way that is not easily noticed
- Ingeniously: in a clever or inventive way
- Inquisitively: in a curious or questioning way
Advanced Vocabulary
- Judiciously: in a wise or discerning way
- Justify: to show or prove that something is reasonable or right
- Litigate: to take legal action against someone or something
- Malign: to speak or write badly about someone or something
- Mawkish: excessively sentimental or emotional
- Obfuscate: to make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Obnoxiously: in a rude or annoying way
- Obsequious: excessively willing to please or obey
- Parsimonious: extremely unwilling to spend money or give away resources
- Perspicacious: having a keen understanding and insight
Challenging Words
- Reluctantly: in a hesitant or unwilling way
- Solemnly: in a serious or dignified manner
- Spurious: not genuine or fake
- Surreptitious: done secretly or without being noticed
- Tantamount: equivalent or amounting to something
- Truculent: aggressive or brutal
- Unethically: in a way that is morally wrong or dishonest
- Visceral: relating to the instincts or emotions rather than reason
Vocabulary Building
- Accost: to approach and speak to someone in a friendly or aggressive way
- Acknowledge: to accept or admit the existence or truth of something
- Compensate: to give something, especially money, in exchange for something else
- Copious: abundant or plentiful in supply or quantity
- Culinary: related to food or cooking
- Decimate: to reduce something, especially a population, by a large amount
- Defer: to delay or put off something until a later time
- Ebullient: feeling or showing enthusiasm and excitement
- Effervescent: bubbly or lively, often used to describe someone's personality
Important Words to Know
- Frugal: careful with money and not wasteful
- Grandiose: impressive or magnificent, often used to describe something that is extravagant
- Heterogeneous: consisting of different kinds of things
- Homogeneous: consisting of the same kind of things
- Immutable: unchanging or unable to be changed
- Impertinently: in a rude or impolite way
- Inconspicuously: in a way that is not easily noticed
- Ingeniously: in a clever or inventive way
- Inquisitively: in a curious or questioning way
Advanced Vocabulary
- Judiciously: in a wise or discerning way
- Justify: to show or prove that something is reasonable or right
- Litigate: to take legal action against someone or something
- Malign: to speak or write badly about someone or something
- Mawkish: excessively sentimental or emotional
- Obfuscate: to make something unclear or difficult to understand
- Obnoxiously: in a rude or annoying way
- Obsequious: excessively willing to please or obey
- Parsimonious: extremely unwilling to spend money or give away resources
- Perspicacious: having a keen understanding and insight
Challenging Words
- Reluctantly: in a hesitant or unwilling way
- Solemnly: in a serious or dignified manner
- Spurious: not genuine or fake
- Surreptitious: done secretly or without being noticed
- Tantamount: equivalent or amounting to something
- Truculent: aggressive or brutal
- Unethically: in a way that is morally wrong or dishonest
- Visceral: relating to the instincts or emotions rather than reason
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