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Mrs.Warrington
Question | Answer |
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Assertion | a declaration or statement |
Clarity | clearness in thought or expression |
Cogent | convincing; reasonable |
Coherent | logically connected |
Cohesive | condition of sticking together |
Didactic | intended to instruct |
Discourse | verbal expression or exchange; conversation |
Eloquence | the ability to speak vividly or persuasively |
Emphasize | to give special attention to something; to stress |
Fluid | easily flowing |
Implication | the act of suggesting or hinting |
Lucid | easily understood; clear |
Pundit | an authority who expresses his/her opinions |
Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively |
Arbiter | a judge who decides a disputed issue |
Biased | prejudiced |
Exculpate | to free from guilt and blame |
Impartial | not in favor of one side or another; unbiased |
Incontrovertible | indisputable; not open to question |
Integrity | trustworthiness; completeness |
Jurisprudence | the philosophy or science of law |
Objectivity | treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices |
Penitent | expressing remorese for one's misdeeds |
Plausible | seemingly valid or acceptable; credible |
Substantiated | supported with proof or evidence; verified |
Vindicated | freed from blame |
Condescending | treating people as weak or inferior |
Contemptuous | feeling hatred; scornful |
Despotic | exercising absolute power; tyrannical |
Dictatorial | domineering; oppressively overbearing |
Disdain | contempt; scorn |
Haughty | arrogant; vainly proud |
Imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing |
Patronizing | treating in a condescending manner |
Convoluted | intricate; complex |
Cryptic | difficult to comprehend |
Futile | having no useful purpose; pointless |
Impede | to slow progress of |
Obscure | (adj)relatively unknown(verb) to conceal or make indistinct |
Quandary | a state of uncertainty or perplexity |
Dilatory | habitually late |
Indolent | lazy |
Insipid | uninteresting; unchallenging |
Listless | lacking energy |
Torpor | laziness; inactivity; dullness |
Alienated | removed or disassociated from friends, family, or homeland |
Alliance | a union of two or more groups |
Disparity | inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference |
Servile | submissive; like a servant |
Suppressed | subdued; kept from being circulated |
Embellish | to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate |
Florid | describing flowery or elaborate speech |
Opulent | exhibiting a display of great wealth |
Ornate | elaborately decorated |
Ostentatious | describing a showy or pretentious display |
Poignant | profoundly moving; touching |
Ebullience | intense enthusiasm |
Effusive | emotionally unrestrained; gushy |
Egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive |
Flagrant | extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable |
Frenetic | wildly excited or active |
Gratuitous | given freely; unearned; unwarranted |
Superfluous | extra; unnecessary |
Alleviate | to ease a pain or burden |
Asylum | a place of retreat or security |
Auspicious | favorable; promising |
Benevolent | well-meaning; generous |
Benign | kind and gentle |
Emollient | something that softens or soothes |
Mollify | to calm or soothe |
Reclamation | the act of making something useful again |
Sanction | to give official authorization of approval |
Dubious | doubtful; of unlikely authenticity |
Fabricated | made; concocted in order to deceive |
Hypocrisy | the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity |
Slander | false charges and malicious statement about someone |
Spurious | not genuine; false; counterfeit |
Astute | shrewd; clever |
Camouflage | to hide by blending in with the surrounding |
Clandestine | secretive |
Coup | a brilliantly executed plan |
Disingenuous | not straightfoward; crafty |
Ruse | a trick |
Stratagem | a clever trick used to deceive or outwit |
Sureptitious | done by secretive means |
Wary | on guard, watchful |
Wily | cunning |
Ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation |
Ambivalent | uncertain |
Apathetic | feeling or showing little emotion |
Arbitrary | determined by impulse rather than reason |
Capricious | impulsive and unpredictable |
Equivocate | to avoid making a definite statement |
Indifferent | not caring one way or the other |
Spontaneous | unplanned |
Whimsical | subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable |
Inconsequential | unimportant |
Superficial | shallow |
Tenuous | having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure; weak |
Trivial | of little importance or significance |
Assiduous | hard working |
Compelling | forceful |
Diligent | marked by painstaking effort |
Dogged | stubbornly persevering |
Endure | to put up with; to survive a hardship |
Intrepid | courageous; fearless |
Maverick | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
Obdurate | stubborn; inflexible |
Obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action |
Proliferate | to grow or increase rapidly |
Tenacity | persistence |
Vitality | energy |
Assimilation | to absorb; to make similiar |
Consensus | general agreement |
Context | environment; circumstances of a situation |
Derived | copied or adapted from a source |
Incumbent | imposed as duty; obligatory |
Inevitable | certain to happen |
Malleable | easily shaped or formed |
Subdue | to restrain; to hold back |
Acquired | developed or learned; not naturally occurring |
Conception | the ability to form or understand an idea |
Conviction | a fixed or strong belief |
Dogmatic | adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs |
Enlightening | informative |
Impression | a feeling or understanding resulting from an experience |
Intuition | the power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight |
Misconception | an incorrect understanding or interpretation |
Preception | awareness; insight |
Perspective | point of view |
Profound | having great depth or seriousness |
Inherent | inborn; built-in |
Innate | possessed at birth; inborn |
Inveterate | long established; deep rooted; habitual |
Omnipotent | all-powerful |
Proximity | closeness |
Elusive | difficult to capture |
Emigrate | to leave one country or region and settle in antoher |
Transient | passing away with time; passing from one place to another |
Transitory | short-lived; temporary |
Affable | easy-going; friendly |
Amenable | responsive; agreeable |
Camaraderie | goodwill between friends |
Cordial | friendly; sincere |
Facetious | playfully humorous |
Impinge | hinder; interference with |
Lament | express grief for; mourn |
Melancholy | sadness; depression |
Sanction | (n) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country |
Truncated | shortened; cut off |
Aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty |
Anthology | a collection of literary pieces |
Contemporary | current, modern, from the same time |
Dilettante | one with a superficial understanding of a field knowledge |
Eclectic | made up of a variety of sources or styles |
Excerpt | a selected part of a passage or scene |
Genre | a category of artistic endeavor |
Medley | an assortment or mixture |
Mural | a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface |
Narrative | a story |
Parody | an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect |
Realism | artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy |
Virtuoso | a tremendously skilled artist |
Decorous | proper; marked by good taste |
Equanimity | the quality of being calm and even tempered; composure |
Modest | quiet or humble in manner or appearance |
Propriety | appropriateness of behavior |
Prudent | exercising good judgement or common sense |
Serene | calm |
Staid | unemotional; serious |
Stoic | indifferent to pleasure or pain |
Condemn | to express strong disapproval of; denounce |
Discredit | to cause to be doubted |
Disparage | to belittle |
Pejorative | words or phrases that belittle someone |
Plagiarism | the act of passing off the ideas or writings of another as one's own |
Vilify | to make vicious statements about someone |
Brusque | rudely abrupt |
Caustic | bitingly sarcastic or witty |
Feral | savage; untamed |
Fractious | quarrelsome, unruly |
Incorrigible | unable to be reformed |
Ingrate | an ungrateul person |
Insolent | insulting in manner or speech |
Notorious | infamous |
Pugnacious | combative; belligerent |
Reprehensible | worthy of blame |
Brittle | easily broken when subjected to pressure |
Deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious |
Enmity | mutual hatred or ill will |
Heinous | hatefully evil; abominable |
Malfeasance | misconduct or wrong doing, especially by a public official |
Malice | extreme ill will or spite |
Putrid | rotten |
Rancorous | hateful; marked by deep seated ill will |
Toxic | poisonous |
Archaic | characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned |
Hackneyed | worn out through overuse; trite |
Medieval | referring to the Middle Ages; old fashioned |
Obsolete | no longer in use; old fashioned |
Austere | without decoration; strict |
Mediocrity | the state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality |
Mundane | commonplace; ordinary |
Ponderous | having great weight; massive; extremely dull |
Prosaic | unimaginative; dull |
Sedentary | not migratory; settled |
Apprehension | anxiety or fear about the future |
Harbinger | something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner |
Omnous | menacing; threatening |
Premonition | a feeling about the future |
Timorous | timid; fearful about the future |
Trepidation | uncertainty; apprehension |
Innovative | introducing something new |
Naive | lacking sophistication |
Nascent | coming into existence; emerging |
Novel | new or unusual |
Novice | a beginner |
Candor | sincerity; openness |
Frank | open and sincere in expression; straightfoward |
Arid | describing a dry, rainless climate |
Conflagration | a wide spread fire |
Nocturnal | of or occuring in the night |
Sonorous | producing a deep or full sound |
Ample | descrbing a large amount of something |
Comprehensive | large in scope or content |
Copious | plentiful; having a large quantity |
Permeated | spread or flowing throughout |
Pervasive | dispersed throughout |
Prodigious | enormous |
Replete | abundantly supplied; filled to capacity |
Exemplary | commendable; worthy of imitation |
Idealize | to consider perfect |
Laudatory | giving praise |
Paramount | of chief concern or importance |
Venerated | highly respected |
Catalog | (v) to make an itemized list of |
Facile | easy; done or achieved with little effort |
Fastidious | possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please |
Hierarchy | a group organized by rank |
Meticulous | extremely careful and precise |
Pragmatic | practical |
Solvent | able to pay one's debts |
Abstract | not applied to actual objects |
Apparatus | equipment; a group of machines |
Paradigm | an example or model |
Phenomenon | an unusual, observable event |
Rational | logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling |
Theoretical | lacking application or practical application |
Cartographer | one who designs or makes maps |
Vocation | an occupation or profession |