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Part E-F
Kaplan vocab
Question | Answer |
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effluvia | waste; odorous fumes given off by waste (n) |
elegy | a mournful poem (n) |
elude | to avoid cleverly; to escape the perception of (v) |
emollient | soothing, especially o the skin (adj) |
emulate | to strive to equal or excel; to imitate (v) |
jencumber | to weigh down, to burden (v) |
enjoin | to direct or impose with urgent appeal, to forbid (v) |
epochal | momentous, highly significant (adj) |
eponymous | giving one's name to a place, book, restaurant |
equivocate | to avoid committing oneself in what one says, to be deliberately unclear (v) |
ersatz | being an artificial and inferior substitute or imitation (adj) |
eschew | to shun; to avoid (v) |
espouse | to take up and support as a cause; to marry (v) |
espy | to catch sight of, glimpse (v) |
euphemism | an inoffensive and agreeable expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive (n) |
euthanasia | assisted suicide (n) |
excoriate | to censure scathingly; to express strong disapproval of (v) |
exponent | one who champions or advocate (n) |
expound | to explain or describe in detail (v) |
expunge | to erase, eliminate completely (v) |
extirpate | to root out, eradict |
extrapolation | prediction (n) |
extrinsic | external, unessential; originating from the outside (adj) |
extrude | to form or shape something by pushing it out; to force out (v) |
facetious | witty, humorous (adj0 |
facile | easily accomplished; seeming to lack sincerity or depth (adj) |
fallacious | tending to deceive or mislead; based on a fallacy (adj) |
febrile | feverish; marked by intense emotion or activity |
feckless | ineffective, worthless (adj) |
feral | suggestive of a wild beast, not domesticated (adj) |
fictive | fictional (adj) |
flibuster | to use obstructionist tactics in order to delay something (v) |
fitful | intermittent, lacking steadiness; characterized by irregular bursts of activity (adj) |
flippant | marked by disrespectful lightheartedness or casualness (adj) |
flout | to scorn, to disregard with contempt (v) |
fodder | raw material, as for artistic creation, readily abundant ideas or images (n) |
forego | to precede, to go ahead of (v) |
orgo | to do without, to abstain from (v) |
formidable | fearsome, daunting tending to inspire awe or wonder (adj) |
fortitude | strength of mind that allows one to encounter adversity with courage (n) |
fortuitous | by chance (adj) |
frenetic | frantic, frenzied (adj) |
fulsome | abundant; flattering in an insencere way (adj) |
furlough | a leave of absence, especially granted to a soldier or a prisoner (n) |
furtive | sly, with hidden motives (adj) |