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What does the term 'frugal' mean?
Which word best describes a person who is 'obsequious'?
What is the meaning of 'malign'?
What does 'inconspicuously' imply?
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What does 'copious' mean?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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What does the word 'ebullient' describe?
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What does the word 'heterogeneous' describe?
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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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