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What does the term 'scrutinize' mean?
What does the term 'scrutinize' mean?
- To review casually
- To look at critically or in minute detail (correct)
- To observe without much detail
- To ignore or overlook
Which word describes an unpleasant or difficult situation?
Which word describes an unpleasant or difficult situation?
- Plausible
- Nebulous
- Predicament (correct)
- Futile
What does 'odious' mean?
What does 'odious' mean?
- Pleasant and agreeable
- Mysterious and intriguing
- Common and unremarkable
- Extremely repulsive or unpleasant (correct)
Which term refers to a desire for revenge?
Which term refers to a desire for revenge?
What does 'equivocal' imply?
What does 'equivocal' imply?
Flashcards
Contrived
Contrived
Planned or manipulated, not natural.
Conceivable
Conceivable
Imaginable; able to be thought of.
Scrutinize
Scrutinize
Examine or look at very carefully.
Furtive
Furtive
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Study Notes
Word Definitions
- contrived: showing effects of planning or manipulation
- conceivable: capable of being imagined
- scrutinize: look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
- furtive: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
- falter: move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
- predicament: an unpleasant or difficult situation
- nebulous: lacking definite form or limits
- formidable: inspiring fear or dread
- primal: having existed from the beginning
- plausible: apparently reasonable, valid, or truthful
- specious: plausible but false
- vindictiveness: a hateful desire for revenge
- deride: treat or speak of with contempt
- sinister: wicked, evil, or dishonorable
- odious: extremely repulsive or unpleasant
- flinch: draw back, as with fear or pain
- dissemble: hide under a false appearance
- contempt: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- inscrutable: difficult or impossible to understand
- equivocal: open to two or more interpretations
- futile: producing no result or effect
- apprehensive: in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
- demeanor: the way a person behaves toward other people
- gambol: light-hearted recreational activity for amusement
- compromising: vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion
- annihilation: total destruction
- endure: continue to exist
- repudiate: cast off
- palimpsest: a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
- multifarious: having many aspects
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