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What does the word 'abjure' mean?
What does the word 'abjure' mean?
Which word describes a state of uncertainty?
Which word describes a state of uncertainty?
What is meant by 'cacophony'?
What is meant by 'cacophony'?
Which term refers to the act of fleeing?
Which term refers to the act of fleeing?
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What does 'berate' mean?
What does 'berate' mean?
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What does the word 'complacency' imply?
What does the word 'complacency' imply?
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Which word means 'to modify'?
Which word means 'to modify'?
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The term 'anomaly' refers to what?
The term 'anomaly' refers to what?
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What does the term 'conducive' mean?
What does the term 'conducive' mean?
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Which word describes a state of having too much fat or obesity?
Which word describes a state of having too much fat or obesity?
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What is the meaning of 'expiate'?
What is the meaning of 'expiate'?
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What does 'egregious' imply?
What does 'egregious' imply?
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Which term refers to a political leader who appeals to the prejudices of the common people?
Which term refers to a political leader who appeals to the prejudices of the common people?
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What does 'insidious' mean?
What does 'insidious' mean?
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What is a 'dirge'?
What is a 'dirge'?
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Which term describes a person who is new to a skill or subject?
Which term describes a person who is new to a skill or subject?
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What does 'irrevocable' mean?
What does 'irrevocable' mean?
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What does 'fortuitous' mean?
What does 'fortuitous' mean?
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Which word means to make someone uncomfortable?
Which word means to make someone uncomfortable?
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Which term refers to a state of disgrace?
Which term refers to a state of disgrace?
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What does the term 'obfuscate' mean?
What does the term 'obfuscate' mean?
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Which word describes someone who is noisy and difficult to control?
Which word describes someone who is noisy and difficult to control?
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What does 'paucity' refer to?
What does 'paucity' refer to?
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Which of the following best describes 'philanthropic'?
Which of the following best describes 'philanthropic'?
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What is the meaning of 'surfeit'?
What is the meaning of 'surfeit'?
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Which term is used to describe someone showing deep knowledge or insight?
Which term is used to describe someone showing deep knowledge or insight?
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What does 'truculent' mean?
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Which word means to make less severe or intense?
Which word means to make less severe or intense?
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What is a 'quandary'?
What is a 'quandary'?
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Which word describes a preference or habitual liking?
Which word describes a preference or habitual liking?
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What does 'sanguine' mean?
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What is the meaning of 'upbraid'?
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Which word denotes an ability to work successfully?
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Flashcards
Abandon
Abandon
To give up completely.
Abate
Abate
To lessen or reduce.
Abject
Abject
Complete lack of pride or dignity.
Aberration
Aberration
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Abjure
Abjure
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Adverse
Adverse
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Assiduous
Assiduous
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Benevolent
Benevolent
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Concomitant
Concomitant
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Conducive
Conducive
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Conduit
Conduit
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Conflagration
Conflagration
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Connive
Connive
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Consign
Consign
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Constituent
Constituent
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Constructive
Constructive
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Construe
Construe
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Contend
Contend
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Contrite
Contrite
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Contentious
Contentious
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Contravene
Contravene
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Convivial
Convivial
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Corpulence
Corpulence
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Obfuscate
Obfuscate
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Obstreperous
Obstreperous
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Officious
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Onerous
Onerous
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Ostensible
Ostensible
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Ostracism
Ostracism
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Palliate
Palliate
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Panacea
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Paradigm
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Pariah
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Paucity
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Pejorative
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Penchant
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Penurious
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Pert
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Study Notes
Vocabulary List
- Abandon: To give up completely
- Abate: To lessen
- Abject: Completely lacking pride or dignity
- Aberration: Deviation from the norm
- Abjure: To renounce a belief, cause, or claim
- Abnegation: Renouncing or rejecting something
- Abrogate: To do away with a law, right, or responsibility
- Abscond: To flee
- Abstruse: Dense or obscure
- Abysmal: Terrible
- Accede: To agree to a demand
- Acumen: Ability to make good judgments
- Adamant: Stubborn
- Adapt: To modify
- Admonish: To reprimand someone
- Advantageous: Beneficial circumstances
- Affluent: Wealthy
- Alacrity: Brisk eagerness
- Ambivalence: State of uncertainty
- Anomaly: Deviation from what's normal or expected
- Antipathy: Strong dislike
- Antiseptic: Clean or pure
- Apt: Accurate or appropriate
- Assertion: Statement
- Assiduous: Showing great care
- Bane: Source of distress or harm
- Beguile: To charm or enchant
- Beneficial: Helpful
- Berate: To scold or criticize
- Bereft: Deprived or lacking
- Blandishment: Flattering statement used to persuade
- Bias: Prejudice
- Bolster: To support
- Bombastic: Inflated
- Bovine: Cow-like
- Braggart: Someone who boasts
- Brevity: Concise
- Cacophony: Discordant mixture of sounds
- Cajole: To persuade someone via flattery
- Callous: Cruel disregard for others
- Calumny: Slander
- Camaraderie: Friendship
- Candid: Truthful
- Candor: Quality of being honest
- Carouse: To drink and party in a lively way
- Carp: To complain about trivial matters
- Catastrophic: Involving large-scale damage
- Cavort: To dance around excitedly
- Censorious: Critical of others
- Circumlocution: Using many words in an evasive way
- Circumscribe: To restrict within limits
- Clamor: Loud and confused noise
- Clout: Influence or power
- Cognizant: Having knowledge of
- Commensurate: Equal to
- Comparable: Similar to another
- Complement: To add to or make complete
- Compunction: Feeling of guilt
- Concomitant: Naturally accompanying
- Conducive: Helps produce positive results
- Conduit: Vessel or channel for transporting
- Conflagration: Large fire
- Connive: To trick; conspire
- Consign: To assign or deliver something
- Constituent: Being part of a whole
- Constructive: Helpful, useful
- Construe: To interpret
- Contend: To reckon with; struggle against
- Contusion: A bruise
- Contrite: Feeling remorse or guilt
- Contentious: Likely to cause an argument
- Contravene: Violate the order of; conflict
- Convivial: Friendly and cheerful environment
- Corpulence: Obesity; fatness
- Covet: To want greatly
- Cupidity: Greed for money
- Dearth: Lack of something
- Debacle: A fiasco or failure
- Debauch: Ruin or debase, particularly morally
- Defunct: No longer working
- Demagogue: Political leader appealing to people's prejudices
- Demur: To show reluctance; raise objections
- Denigrate: To disparage
- Despot: A tyrant
- Diaphanous: Light and translucent
- Dirge: Song of lament for the dead
- Discomfit: To make someone uncomfortable
- Disparate: Different from each other
- Disrepute: State of disgrace
- Duplicity: Deceitfulness
- Duress: Intimidation or coercion to force
- Eclectic: Wide-ranging
- Edict: Official order
- Ebullient: Cheerful and lively
- Efficacious: Having power to achieve a result
- Effluvia: Unpleasant odor
- Egregious: Outstandingly bad
- Elegy: Poem of reflection, typically a lament
- Elicit: To evoke or draw out
- Eloquent: Well-spoken
- Elude: To escape one’s grasp
- Emollient: Soothing
- Empirical: Based on evidence
- Emulate: To imitate
- Enervate: To weaken; drain of energy
- Engender: To bring about
- Ephemeral: Short-lived
- Equanimity: Mental calmness
- Equivocal: Ambiguous
- Evanescent: Fading quickly from sight
- Evince: To reveal the presence of
- Exacerbate: To make worse
- Exhort: Strongly encourage someone to do something
- Execrable: Extremely bad or unpleasant
- Exigent: Pressing, demanding
- Expedient: Convenient, though possibly improper
- Expiate: To atone for guilt or sin
- Expunge: To get rid of
- Extraneous: Irrelevant
- Extol: To praise
- Facilitate: To make easier, guide forward
- Fallacious: False; based on mistaken belief
- Fatuous: Silly and pointless
- Flagrant: Obviously offensive
- Forbearance: Restraint; self-control
- Fortuitous: Happening by chance
- Fractious: Irritable and difficult to control
- Garrulous: Talkative
- Grandiloquent: Pompous or extravagant in language
- Grapple: Wrestle, physically or mentally
- Gratuitous: Uncalled for; unnecessary
- Hapless: Unfortunate
- Hegemony: Leadership or dominance, especially of a country
- Heterogenous: Not uniform; varied
- Iconoclast: Person who veers from norms; attacks cherished beliefs
- Impecunious: Having little money; penniless
- Imped: To prevent or hold back
- Impetuous: Acting without care
- Impinge: To encroach on
- Impute: To attribute to
- Inane: Ridiculous
- Inchoate: Just beginning; not fully formed
- Inconvertible: Unable to be denied
- Inexorable: Impossible to prevent
- Inimical: Tending to harm; unfriendly
- Injunction: Authoritative order
- Innocuous: Benign, not harmful
- Inoculate: To immunize against
- Insidious: Harmful
- Instigate: To bring about; incite
- Insurgent: Rebel or revolutionary
- Interlocutor: Someone engaged in conversation
- Inure: To become accustomed to something
- Intransigent: Stubborn; unwilling to change
- Inveterate: Long-established, unlikely to change
- Irreverence: Lack of respect
- Largesse: Generosity in bestowing money or gifts
- Licentious: Promiscuous
- Litigant: Person involved in a lawsuit
- Maelstrom: Powerful storm; turmoil
- Maudin: Overly sentimental; self-pitying
- Maverick: Independent-minded person; nonconformist
- Mawkish: Sentimental in a sweet or sickly way
- Maxim: Short, pithy statement of truth
- Mendacious: Lying
- Meretricious: Appearing attractive but of little value
- Modicum: Small quantity of something
- Momentous: Important or significant
- Morass: Mess; complicated situation
- Munificent: Generous
- Nadir: Lowest point
- Negligent: Failing to do something
- Neophyte: Person new to a subject, skill, or belief
- Noisome: Disagreeable; having offensive smell
- Noxious: Poisonous; harmful
- Obdurate: Stubborn
- Obfuscate: Render unclear; bewilder someone
- Obstreperous: Noisy and difficult to control; disorderly
- Officious: Self-assertive, overbearing
- Onerous: Involving many obligations or effort
- Ostensible: Seemingly so
- Ostracism: Exclusion from a group
- Palliate: Make less severe
- Panacea: Remedy for all diseases
- Paradigm: Typical example or pattern
- Pariah: An outcast
- Paucity: Lack of; scarcity
- Pejorative: Expressing contempt or disapproval
- Penchant: Habitual liking for something; tendency toward
- Penurious: Poverty-stricken
- Pert: Attractive; impudent or saucy
- Pernicious: Having a harmful effect on
- Pertinacious: Holding firmly to a course; determined
- Phlegmatic: Self-controlled; calm and stoic
- Philanthropic: Generous, particularly financially
- Pithy: Concise and expressive
- Plaudit: Expression of praise
- Plenitude: Abundance; full or complete
- Plethora: Abundance of
- Polar: Directly opposite
- Postulate: To assume as true
- Potentate: Monarch or ruler
- Pragmatic: Realistic, sensible
- Preclude: To prevent from taking place
- Predilection: Preference or liking for something
- Probity: Honesty; integrity
- Proclivity: Tendency toward
- Profligate: Recklessly extravagant
- Profound: Showing deep knowledge or insight
- Promulgate: To promote widely
- Proscribe: To forbid by law
- Protean: Able to change easily
- Prurient: Overly sexual
- Puerile: Childishly silly
- Pugnacious: Quick to fight
- Punctilious: Paying attention to detail
- Quaint: Old-fashioned
- Quixotic: Idealistic
- Quandary: State of perplexity; a dilemma
- Recalcitrant: Uncooperative
- Relegate: Cast to a lower rank or role
- Remiss: Negligent
- Reprieve: Cancellation or postponement of punishment
- Reprobate: Unprincipled person
- Rescind: To take back
- Ribald: Improper; lewd
- Rife: Filled with; widespread
- Sanctimonious: Being morally superior
- Sanguine: Optimistic
- Scurrilous: Spreading disparaging claims; slanderous
- Serendipity: Chance or good luck
- Solicitous: Attentive to
- Spurious: Statement that appears truthful but is false
- Staid: Sedate, respectable
- Stolid: Calm and dependable
- Substantial: Large in size, amount, or importance
- Supercilious: Behaving in a haughty manner
- Supposition: Assumption without proof
- Surfeit: Excessive amount
- Surmise: Guess without proof
- Surreptitious: Kept secret
- Tangential: Peripheral to the central matter
- Tenable: Reasonable, maintainable
- Terse: Brief
- Torpid: Lethargic; inactive
- Travesty: False representation of something
- Trenchant: Vigorous in expression; sharp
- Trance: To defeat heavily
- Truculent: Eager to argue or fight
- Turpitude: Depravity, wickedness
- Ubiquitous: Present everywhere
- Umbrage: Offense, to take umbrage at
- Unconventional: To act outside of the norm
- Undulate: Move in a wave-like pattern
- Unmitigated: Not lessened; absolute
- Unveil: To reveal
- Upbraid: To scold or find fault
- Upshot: The outcome or result
- Usury: Unethical money lending
- Validate: Support the truth or value of
- Veracity: Truth or accuracy
- Vestige: Trace or remnant
- Viability: Ability to work successfully
- Vicissitude: Change of circumstances
- Vilify: Speak about in a disparaging manner
- Virtuoso: Highly skilled person, particularly in the arts
- Vital: Necessary
- Vitriolic: Filled with hatred
- Vituperate: Blame or insult strongly
- Vociferous: Outspoken
- Wanton: Deliberate and unprovoked; sexually unrestrained
- Winsome: Attractive or charming
- Yield: Surrender, give way to pressure
- Yoke: Tie two things together
- Zenith: The peak
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