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Avalos Week 6
#11-60
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aberrant | deviating from what is normal or expected |
| Bolster | support, prop up |
| Candid | impartial and honest in speech |
| Deride | to speak of or treat with contempt, to mock |
| Efficacy | effectiveness |
| Fanatical | acting excessively enthusiastic, filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion |
| Laconic | using few words |
| Malleable | capable of being shaped |
| Rarefy | to make thinner or sparser |
| Soporific | causing sleep or lethargy |
| Abscond | to leave secretly |
| Bombastic | pompous in speech and manner |
| Capricious | changing one's mind quickly and often |
| Desiccate | to dry out thoroughly |
| Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech |
| Fawn | to grovel |
| Garrulous | tending to talk a lot |
| Naïve | lacking sophistication or experience |
| Paragon | model of excellence or perfection |
| Venerate | to respect deeply |
| Abyss | an extremely deep hole |
| Castigate | to punish or criticize harshly |
| Diatribe | an abusive, condemnatory speech |
| Eloquent | persuasive and moving, especially in speech |
| Iconoclast | one who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions |
| Pedant | someone who shows off learning |
| Perfunctory | done in a routine way; indifferent |
| Specious | deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious |
| Tacit | done without using words |
| Zeal | passion, excitement |
| Adulterate | to make impure |
| Advocate | to speak in favor of |
| Burgeon | to grow and flourish |
| Catalyst | something that brings about a change in something else |
| Diffident | lacking self-confidence |
| Embellish | to add ornamental or fictitious details |
| Gregarious | outgoing, sociable |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech comparing two different things, a symbol |
| Obstinate | stubborn, unyielding |
| Stigma | a mark of shame or discredit |
| Aesthetic | concerning the appreciation of beauty |
| Caustic | biting in wit |
| Dilate | to make larger, expand |
| Emulate | to copy; to try to equal or excel |
| Fervid | intensely emotional, feverish |
| Permeate | to penetrate |
| Stolid | unemotional, lacking sensitivity |
| Taciturn | silent, not talkative |
| Veracity | filled with truth and accuracy |
| Waver | to fluctuate between choices |