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Revolution Drill V
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| treacherousness | n. traitorousness, disloyalty, insidiousness |
| latency | n. being hidden, being out of sight; latency stage (Psychology); retrieval time / reaction time(Computers) |
| incubation | n. hatching; growing; development; time between the infection and appearance of symptoms |
| repeal | v. cancel, annul, revoke, make void |
| reiterate | v. repeat, say again, restate |
| quisling | n. traitor, one who betrays his nation to an enemy; collaborator |
| gravity | n. heaviness; severity; seriousness; solemnity; gravity force |
| elitist | n. taking pride in belonging to an elite group; snobbish |
| ruminate | v. reflect deeply on a subject; think, mediate, ponder |
| brood | v. hatch, incubate; muse, reflect, think; sulk |
| potentate | n. powerful and influential person, one with great authority (i.e. ruler, monarch, etc.) |
| cleric | n. member of the clergy |
| rectory | n. house of a minister or priest, parsonage |
| circumlocution | n. excessive wordiness, verbosity |
| antedate | v. precede in time, predate; assign to a date prior to that of the actual occurrence |
| prognosticate | v. diagnose; divine, prophesy, presage; foresee, predict, foretell |
| feeble | adj. weak, frail; intellectually weak, morally weak; faint, lacking intensity |
| revile | v. disparage, abuse, defame, libel, deride / ant. Laud |
| rotund | adj. adj. rounded; chubby, plump; having a full or deep voice / ant. Thin |
| anxiety | n. fear, worry; eagerness / ant. Audacious |
| legible | adj. readable, able to be read or deciphered; clear, recognizable / ant. Decipher |
| unheralded | adj. unannounced; unpredicted; without warning or announcement |
| pulchritude | n. external beauty; glory |
| rankle | v. cause constant anger, persistently annoy or irritate / ant. Mollify |
| purloin | v. steal, pilfer, filch; take without permission, appropriate |
| concealment | n. hiding, disguise, cover-up |
| bedlam | n. confusion,uproar; havoc; insane asylum, madhouse |
| husbandry | n. agriculture, farming; frugality, thriftiness; management of resources |
| bilious | adj. of bile; suffering from malfunction of the liver; ill-natured |
| confederate | n. partner, ally, colleague |
| defray | v. pay, cover the expenses of |
| impertinent | adj. irrelevant, not pertinent; impudent, insolent; incongruous, inappropriate / (pertinent = relevance) |
| verbiage | n. wordiness; style of verbal expression |
| veer | v. change direction, swerve, turn about, alter one's course |
| defect | v. desert, abandon, change sides |
| unwitting | adj. unintended, inadvertent; unknowing, unaware |
| elusive | adj. hard to grasp, difficult to understand; evasive, tending to escape |
| portentous | adj. indicated evil; prophesying bad events; pompous, arrogant; ideal, exemplary; |
| clemency | n. grace, mercy, leniency; mildness |
| vile | adj. filthy; repulsive; needy; morally depraved; of poor quality |
| irradicable | adj. impossible to eradicate (kill/destroy) |
| headlong | adj. foolhardy, reckless, impulsive, rash, hasty, |
| ribald | adj. crude, vulgar, offensive |
| muddle | v. confuse; mess up; soil; disturb; cause disorder; struggle through, push on |
| hardy | adj. strong; brave, bold; robust, sturdy, able to survive or endure unfavorable conditions |
| dogged | adj. determined, tenacious, persevering |
| succulent | adj. juicy, full of sap; having fleshy leaves that store water; luscious, delectable |
| hypnotic | adj. soporific, sedative; of hypnosis or hypnotism |
| slovenliness | n. dirtiness, unkemptness, untidiness; carelessness, negligence |
| galling | adj. hurtful, causing bitterness and resentment; irritating, annoying |
| giddy | adj. dizzy, light-headed, unsteady; frivolous, fickle |
| veto | n. prohibition, authoritative nullification / v. Command against; vote against; refuse to endorse |
| haphazard | adj. marked by great carelessness; without care |
| annals | n. a chronological account of events in the successive years |
| absolve | v. forgive, release, acquit, pardon |
| moderate | v. reduce the intensity, soften, free from extrems, simplify, appease; become temperate, mediate |
| nonchalance | n. apathy; indifference; composure |
| calcification | n. hardening; an inflexible and unchanging state |
| genial | adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; agreeable, conductive to comfort; friendly, sociable, cordial; merry, happy; pleasant, nice; mild; characterized by genius |
| particularize | v. specify; be meticulous about details (also particularise) |
| abridge | v. condense, shorten; make shorter in words |
| insurgent | adj. rising in revolt (rebel), mutinous, rebellious; surging up, flooding in (of or like waves) |
| cavil | v. complain, criticize, find fault, raise annoying and insignificant objections |
| mirth | n. hilarity; great merriment; jolliness; gaiety |
| provisional | adj. under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; tentative; temporary |
| charade | n. game in which words or phrases are pantomimed while others guessing the meaning |
| sear | adj. parched, dry, withered / n. scar, burn |
| amble | v. walk at an easy pace, leaisurely walk |
| deputy | adj. subordinate, serving as an assistant (would be the next sheriff) |
| stipple | v. apply small dots or dabs of paint or ink to a surface |
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