Vocabulary Quiz on Word Meanings
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What does the word 'abjure' mean?

  • To renounce a belief (correct)
  • To embrace a belief
  • To ignore a belief
  • To question a belief
  • Which word describes a state of uncertainty?

  • Anomaly
  • Ambivalence (correct)
  • Affluence
  • Alacrity
  • What is meant by 'cacophony'?

  • A pleasant melody
  • A discordant mixture of sounds (correct)
  • A harmonious sound
  • A silent environment
  • Which term refers to the act of fleeing?

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    What does 'berate' mean?

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    What does the word 'complacency' imply?

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    Which word means 'to modify'?

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    The term 'anomaly' refers to what?

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    What does the term 'conducive' mean?

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    Which word describes a state of having too much fat or obesity?

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    What is the meaning of 'expiate'?

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    What does 'egregious' imply?

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    Which term refers to a political leader who appeals to the prejudices of the common people?

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    What does 'insidious' mean?

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    What is a 'dirge'?

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    Which term describes a person who is new to a skill or subject?

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    What does 'irrevocable' mean?

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    What does 'fortuitous' mean?

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    Which word means to make someone uncomfortable?

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    Which term refers to a state of disgrace?

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    What does the term 'obfuscate' mean?

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    Which word describes someone who is noisy and difficult to control?

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    What does 'paucity' refer to?

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    Which of the following best describes 'philanthropic'?

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    What is the meaning of 'surfeit'?

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    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?

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    What is a 'quandary'?

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    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

    To give up completely.

    Abate

    To lessen or reduce.

    Abject

    Complete lack of pride or dignity.

    Aberration

    Deviation from the norm or standard.

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    Abjure

    To renounce or reject a belief or cause.

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    Adverse

    Unfavorable or harmful.

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    Assiduous

    Showing great care and attention to detail.

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    Benevolent

    Kind and generous.

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    Concomitant

    Something that naturally accompanies or goes along with something else.

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    Conducive

    Something that helps to produce positive or desired results.

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    Conduit

    A channel or passage for transporting something.

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    Conflagration

    A large, destructive fire.

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    Connive

    To secretly plan or cooperate in something dishonest or illegal.

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    Consign

    To give something to someone else to take care of.

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    Constituent

    A part or component of a whole.

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    Constructive

    Something that is helpful or useful.

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    Construe

    To interpret or understand something in a particular way.

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    Contend

    To struggle against something or someone.

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    Contrite

    Feeling remorseful or guilty for wrongdoing.

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    Contentious

    Likely to cause disagreement or argument.

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    Contravene

    To violate or go against an order or rule.

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    Convivial

    A friendly and cheerful atmosphere or environment.

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    Corpulence

    Obesity or fatness.

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    Obfuscate

    To make something unclear or confusing; to bewilder someone.

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    Obstreperous

    Noisy and difficult to control; disorderly.

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    Officious

    Self-assertive, overbearing.

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    Onerous

    Involving many obligations or effort; burdensome.

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    Ostensible

    Seemingly so; appearing to be true but may not be.

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    Ostracism

    Exclusion from a group or society.

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    Palliate

    To make less severe; to relieve symptoms without curing the cause.

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    Panacea

    A remedy for all diseases; a cure-all.

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    Paradigm

    A typical example or pattern of something; a model.

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    Pariah

    An outcast; someone who is rejected by society.

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    Paucity

    A lack of; scarcity.

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    Pejorative

    Expressing contempt or disapproval.

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    Penchant

    A habitual liking for something; a tendency toward.

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    Penurious

    Poverty-stricken; extremely poor.

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    Pert

    Attractive; impudent or saucy.

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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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