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10/13/09
Question | Answer |
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Deportment | manner of conducting or bearing oneself; behavior; demeanor |
Germane | closely related; appropriate to |
Amnesty | official pardon for past offenses; act of overlooking |
Tenuous | thin and lacking substance; flimsy |
Lambent | glowing softly; flickering |
Tenacious | holding fast, capable of retaining; sticky |
Enigma | riddle, puzzle, mystery |
Behest | a command, an order |
Skulk | to lie in hiding; to slink |
Jocose | playfully humorous; jesting |
Laminated | divided into thin layer; formed out of thin layers |
Sinuous | snakelike; winding |
Inclement | lacking mildness, severe; harsh |
Redundant | unnecessary, superfluous; wordy |
Refute | disprove; prove false |
Sinecure | office or job that requires no work or responsibility |
Lassitude | felling of weakness and weariness |
Belie | misrepresent or show to be false |
Anomaly | an apparently absurd or self-contradictory situation |
Shirk | to avoid; to evade duty |