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Stack #24906
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Predilection | Preference, Liking ; I have a predilection for ice cream. |
| Plenitude | Plenty, abundance (pleni - like plen ty) |
| Pluralistic | Diverse/Has lots of groups |
| Polemic | controversial argument; especially one attacking one specific opinion; verbal attack |
| Contusion | Bruise |
| Contentious | Quarrelsome, disagreeable; Marta is contentious; she's always looking for an argument |
| Congenital | Existing since birth; (genital - genes) |
| Coterie | Small group who hang out together |
| Defamatory | Slanderous |
| Demagogue | Leader who appeals to emotion or prejudice ; HITLER |
| Demarcation | Making a boundary; separation; distinction |
| Desultory | Random, rambling; changing majors 12 times |
| Disaffected | Lose affection; lose loyalty |
| Disparate | Different |
| Dissemble | Feign, Conceal behind false appearance |
| Disseminate | Spread far and wide |
| Diurnal | Daily; or opposite of nocturnal |
| Dyspeptic | Gloomy |
| equanimity | calmness (equa = equal = balanced feeling) |
| equivocal | ambiguous; doubtful; more than one interpretation |
| gnostic | has knowledge; brain or spiritual wisdom |
| GIve two synoyms for pompous | Grandiloquent, Bombastic |
| Bombast | Pompous speech or writing |
| Iconoclast | One who attacks traditional beliefs |
| Impugn | To attack as false or questionable |
| Disburse | Pay out; Expend; Bursary is a treasury |
| Diluvial | Relating to flood; diLLUVIAl |
| Dissipate (2 definitons) | 1) Vanish (the clouds dissipated) 2) to overindulge |
| dotard/dotage | senile old person |
| exhume | uncover a secret, remove from a grave |
| farcical | absurd; like a farce |
| foment | incite |
| idiosyncratic | peculiar |
| Temporize | to act evasively to gain time or to postpone a decision |
| dalliance | playful flirtation |
| infelicity | not appropriate, unpleasing |
| sedulous | busy, constantly working |
| prosaic | dull, no imagination |
| ineffable | indescribable; unable to be expressed |
| presumptive [2] | Providing a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance; based on presumption/probability |