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Term | Definition |
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Wastrel | A person who wastes his or her time or money. |
Visccous | Resistant to flow, like a very thick liquid; sticky |
Versatile | Having many talents of uses |
Redolent | Strongly scented; fragrant |
Quell | To extinguish; pacify, calm |
Profuse | In large amounts or quantities |
Precocious | Mature at a young age |
Partisan | Blindly devoted to a cause or organization, biased; one-sided |
Obsolete | No longer usable; outdated |
Misconstrue | misunderstandment; interpret incorrectly |
Lucid | easy to understand, transparent; clear |
Innocuous | harmless; inoffensive |
Induce | cause to happen; bring about |
Hierarchy | a group of people in authority; ranked in order of power; a sequential listing |
Germane | relevant; fitting |
Ambivalence | indecision; felling of being pulled in two directions |
Abstruse | difficult to understand |
Apathy | lack of interest of consern |
Benign | Gentle; kind-hearted; mild |
Chastise | scold; punish, castigate |
Condone | to overlook, excuse, pardon forgive |
Conviction | an opinion that is strongly held |
Denounce | criticize; condemn |
Dilatory | Causing lateness; stalling; slow |
Enhance | heighten, magnify; intensify; improve |
Effervescence | Exuberance; high-spirit; being bubbly or full of life |
Extol | bless, celebrate, praise |
Flippancy | treating a serious situation with arrogance, humor or disrespect. |
Adamant | refusing to change; stubborn, unyealding |
Amity | frienship |
Austere | stern;plain;without luxuries |
Avarice | greed |
Benevolent | king hearted; good-natured; generous |
Cajole | to pursuade someone to do something; coax; convience |
Concised | short and to the point |
Concur | agree |
Cupidity | greed; especially for money |
Depleted | emptied, drained, or used up |
Effece | erace |
Eloanonce | powerfully effective speach |
Enigma | Mystery; puzzle |
Extricate | to free from a trap or difficult situation; distangle |
Garrisn | flashy, gardy |
Warranted | justified, authorised |
Vilify | deface; attack someones reputation |
Sardonic | humorous, but humor tinged with sarcasm or distain; cynical |
Recant | take back something you have said, with draw a statement or belief. |
Qualify | to limit the meaning of previous statement, to modify. |
Prodigious | very large |
Preclude | prevent; make imposianble |
Opaque | too dark or thick for a light to pass through |
Indolent | lazy |
Infalable | incapable of making a mistake |
Insipid | dull; flat; without sparkle or flavor |
Irrerevent | disrespectful |
Juncture | point in time especially a cruel one; joint or connection |
Languish | lose energy or motivation; become weak or depressed |
Legacy | something inherited; either from an ansester or past sielf |
Minute | very small in size |
Objiterate | remove or destroy completely; erase |