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Mr D's Reading Final
Question | Answer |
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Having to do with Finances | Fiscal |
Kindly | Benign |
put into | Infuse |
not able or willing to accept | Intolerant |
standards or test by which something can be judged | Criteria |
combined in a pleasing, orderly arrangement | Harmonious |
vivdly expressive | Eloquent |
in complete agreement; united in opinion | Unanimous |
future generations; descendants | Posterity |
Rule by a small, elite group | oligarchy |
difference of opinion | Dissension |
distracts; entertains or amuses | Diverts |
spreading throughout | Pervading |
of little importance; insignificant | Trivial |
strong desires or ambitions | Aspirations |
postponed or delayed | Deferred |
deeply sympathetic | Compassionate |
group united for a common goal | Alliance |
triumphantly | Exultantly |
uninhabited; barren | Desolate |
universal; infinite | Cosmic |
make unfriendly | Alienate |
repay | Compensate |
embarrassing; undignified | humiliating |
mainly; for the most part | predominantly |
not permitted by the US Constitution | unconstitutional |
thinking or considering carefully and fully | deliberating |
kept down by cruel or unjust power | oppressed |
people who leave a dangerous area | evacuees |
persistent; holding on firmly | tenacious |
comforting | consoling |
grim; gruesome | macabre |
inclined; willing | predisposed |
tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason | capricious |
touching; communication | contact |
in proper order for being seen or met by others | presentable |
empty; bare | barren |
in a consistent way | correspondingly |
determined; resolved | resolute |
strong belief; certainty | conviction |
careful about what one says or does | discreet |
believability | credibility |
something not previously known | revelation |
genuine; real | authentic |
group moving forward, as in a parade | procession |
inappropriate | unseemly |
people fleeing from danger | fugitives |
something that makes a person act | incentive |
untidy; messy | disheveled |
rebellious | mutinous |
not easy to please; very critical of anything crude or coarse | fastidious |
techniques or means for working things out | devices |
avoided | evaded |
lack of knowledge or awareness | ignorance |
very heavy | ponderous |
go aimlessly; wander | roam |
restlessly | uneasily |
not reacting | unresponsive |
grove in the ground made by a wheeled vehicle or natural causes | rut |
tries to decide | debates |
the act of meditating on or pondering | Contemplation |