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Fab Vocab 1-350
Stack #135458
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prevaricator | liar |
| Nefarious | wicked; vicious |
| Officious | forcing one’s service or office upon another; too forward |
| Insouciance | indifference; lack of concern |
| Intelligentsia | the highly educated and cultured |
| Permeate | pass through, spread itself, pervade |
| Gregarious | living in groups; liking to be with others |
| Stilted | stiffly formal; pompous |
| Askance | with a side glance of disapproval |
| Inscrutable | incapable of being searched into and understood |
| Intransigent | irreconcilable; uncompromising |
| Foment | to arouse, cause, incite |
| Fortuitous | accidental; happening by chance |
| Aplomb | assurance; poise; self-possession |
| Grandiloquent | eloquent on a grand scale |
| Automaton | a robot; a mechanical person |
| Capricious | fanciful; whimsical; impulsive; unpredictable |
| Duplicity | being double; hiding one’s true intentions by deceptive words or actions |
| Fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish |
| Raucous | boisterously disorderly; loud; disagreeably harsh |
| Nemesis | retribution; just punishment; one that inflicts vengeance |
| Nepotism | favoritism shown to relatives |
| Niggardly | stingy; not generous |
| Nonplused | baffled, confused, puzzled |
| Nominal | in name only; not in fact |
| Verdant | green with growing |
| Modicum | a small quantity or portion |
| Aridity | dryness, barrenness |
| Mollify | soften; allay someone’s rage |
| Cacophony | unpleasant, harsh, discordant sound |
| Shoddy | of inferior material; lacking the quality claimed; sham |
| Shrew | a scolding, brawling woman |
| Discursive | passing from one subject to another |
| Shibboleth | criterion, test |
| Buttress | projecting support of wall or building; support; prop |
| Disparaging | depreciating, lessening in rank |
| Solicitous | showing care, attention, concern; full of anxious desire |
| Disheveled | disarranged; untidy; tousled; rumpled |
| Dissemble | to disguise; to pretend; to simulate |
| Soiree | evening party; gathering |
| Disseminated | scattered, broadcast, spread |
| Somnambulist | one who walks and performs other actions during sleep |
| Soporific | causing sleepiness |
| Doleful | sad, sorrowful, mourning |
| Specious | apparently just or correct, actually not so |
| Flout | mock; insult; scoff |
| Dogma | a set of ideas or some belief |
| Dulcet | melodious; soft; soothing |
| Spurious | not genuine; counterfeit |
| Ebullient | boiling up; bubbling; effervescent |
| Squalid | mean, poor, dirty |
| Edict | public notice issued by official authority |
| Edification | improvement or instruction |
| Staid | dignified, sober, sedate |
| Scathing | injurious, cutting, withering |
| Diatribe | prolonged discussion, abusive speech |
| Diminutive | a shortening, an abbreviation |
| Dilatory | delaying, tardy, slow in doing things |
| Diffident | unduly timid; shy |
| Reticent | inclined to remain silent, uncommunicative |
| Anathema | under a solemn ban or curse, usually by ecclesiastical authority |
| Reverberations | echoes |
| Anomaly | deviation from rule, irregularity |
| Reverie | dream, musing, state of being lost in thought |
| Lucid | clear, shining, bright |
| Malign | to speak evil of; to defame; to slander |
| Writhe | to make twisting or turning movements; contort the body |
| Desideratum | something wanted or needed, a desire |
| Desuetude | state of disuse, uselessness |
| Parochialism | narrowness of interest, pertaining to a particular community |
| Trepidation | a trembling, agitation, fear |
| Trenchant | cutting, incisive, having a sharp point |
| Truncated | cut off; shortened |
| Truculent | displaying fierceness, savage, cruel, defiant |
| Turbid | cloudy, disturbed, muddy |
| Diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through; vague; insubstantial |
| August | marked by majestic dignity or grandeur |
| Immutability | not being capable of or susceptible to change |
| Placidity | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| Sententiously | given to or abounding in excessive moralizing |
| Insipid | lacking taste or savor; tasteless; lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge |
| Lugubrious | mournful, especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful; dismal |
| Drollery | whimsical humor; having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| Declivity | downward inclination; a downward slope |
| Recrudescence | a new outbreak after a period of abatement of inactivity |
| Alacrity | promptness in response; cheerful readiness |
| Rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous; living on prey; ravenous |
| Effaced | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| Moribund | being in the state of dying |
| Tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd, usually with uproar and confusion of voices, commotion; turbulent uprising |
| Volubility | easily rolling or turning, rotation, characterized by ready or rapid speech, glib, fluent |
| Deplorable | lamentable, deserving censure or contempt, wretched |
| Sepulchral | suited to or suggesting of a tomb, funeral |
| Superciliousness | being coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| Indefatigable | untiring, incapable of being tired |
| Conflagration | fire, especially a large, disastrous fire, a conflict or war |
| Precipitately | falling, flowing, or rushing with steep descent; exhibiting violent or unwise speed |
| Commingling | blending thoroughly into a harmonious whole |
| Festoon | decorate, adorn; a decorative chain or strip |
| Inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| Pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence; deadly; morally harmful; pernicious |
| Sagacious | keen in sense perception; of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment |
| Malevolently | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| Recondite | hidden from sight; concealed |
| Inexorable | not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty; relentless |
| Perdition | eternal damnation; hell |
| Abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition |
| Fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession; a spirited outburst |
| Tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors; exceedingly sensitive |
| Wraith | the exact likeness of a living person seen usually just before death; ghost |
| Peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration; a highly rhetorical speech |
| Rudimentary | consisting in first principles; fundamental |
| Audacity | intrepid boldness; cool or arrogant disregard of normal restraints |
| Veriest | (adj.) properly entitled to the name or designation; actual; real |
| Languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind; sluggishness; lethargy |
| Fecund | fruitful in offspring or vegetation; prolific; intellectually productive |
| Odious | exciting or deserving hatred or repugnance |
| Fisticuffs | a fight with the fists |
| Litany | a resonant or repetitive chant; a usually lengthy recitation or enumeration |
| Disconsolately | cheerlessly; dejectedly |
| Craven | defeated; vanquished; lacking any courage, contemptibly faint hearted |
| Insatiable | incapable of being satisfied; quenchless |
| Sarcophagus | a stone coffin |
| Abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action; to do away with |
| Abstemious | sparing, especially in eating or drinking; sparingly used or indulged in |
| Acumen | keenness of depth and perception; discernment or discrimination in practical matters |
| Chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or trickery; a trick |
| Deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
| Nomenclature | a system of terms used in a particular science, discipline, or art |
| Pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| Sanguine | relating to blood; marked by sturdiness, high color, and cheerfulness; confident |
| Ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered |
| Tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest; turbulent; stormy |
| Churlish | a rude boorish person; miserly |
| Evanescent | dissipating or disappearing like vapor |
| Gauche | lacking social polish; tactless |
| Hegemony | the predominant influence of one state over others |
| Hubris | overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance |
| Ephemeral | transient; lasting a short time |
| Impervious | unable to be penetrated, affected, or influenced |
| Rectitude | rightness; correctness of judgment; goodness |
| Enthralled | fascinated; enchanted |
| Inane | empty; pointless; asinine |
| Compunction | uneasiness from a sense of guilt; penitence |
| Enervate | weaken; deprive of strength |
| Equivocal | ambiguous; doubtful; obscure |
| Equanimity | evenness of mind; calm temper |
| Epitomize | to serve as the typical or ideal example of |
| Commensurate | equal in measure |
| Commodious | convenient; spacious; roomy |
| Abnegation | denial; refraining from indulgence; to give up |
| Egregious | prominent; conspicuous for bad quality; outstanding |
| Imbroglio | complicated and embarrassing state; serious misunderstanding |
| Ribald | vulgar; coarse |
| Vicissitude | irregular change; variation |
| Avarice | inordinate desire for gain; greed |
| Cajolery | persuading by flattery |
| Harbinger | messenger; forerunner |
| Moot | debatable; subject to argument or discussion; deprived of practical significance |
| Pusillanimous | cowardly; weak spirited |
| Elucidation | explanation; clarification |
| Flagellation | whipping; flogging |
| Indomitable | cannot be overcome or subdued |
| Munificent | very liberal; lavish |
| Reprobate | scoundrel; corrupt; morally abandoned |
| Abeyance | held in waiting; pending; suspension |
| Ennui | boredom; weariness; dissatisfaction |
| Onerous | burdensome; oppressive |
| Piquant | stimulating to the palate; sharp |
| Umbrage | offense; resentment |
| Banal | lacking freshness or vigor; commonplace |
| Morose | gloomy; of sour temper; sullen |
| Extraneous | foreign; outside; not essential |
| Prosaic | ordinary; dull |
| Vitriolic | caustic; bitter; cutting |
| Aberration | disorder of the mind; wandering or going off on the wrong track |
| Lackadaisical | listless; not interested |
| Punctilious | exact in detail; careful |
| Quixotic | idealistic, not practical; imaginary |
| Recalcitrant | showing stubborn opposition; unruly |
| Cupidity | inordinate desire; greed. |
| Exigency | emergency; urgency; immediate need |
| Innocuous | without bad effect; harmless |
| Sycophant | insincere flatterer; parasite |
| Travesty | a ridiculous imitation; burlesque |
| Efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| Excoriate | to flay; to censure scathingly |
| Impute | ascribe; credit; charge with |
| Surreptitious | secret; stealthy |
| Torpor | dullness; sluggishness |
| Amity | friendship; good will |
| Crass | very stupid; unrefined |
| Effulgence | a brightness; shining radiation; luster |
| Elicit | to draw forth; to evoke |
| Impregnable | unconquerable; unyielding; not to be entered |
| Acrimonious | caustic; biting. |
| Copious | plentiful in number |
| Eschew | to avoid on moral or practical grounds; to shun |
| Juxtapose | to place side by side |
| Perspicacious | acutely perceptive; shrewd |
| Frenetic | frantic |
| Heinous | hatefully evil |
| Inveterate | habitual |
| Propinquity | nearness in place or time |
| Unctuous | full of smug |
| Dilettante | a person with superficial interest |
| Effrontery | shameless boldness |
| Foist | to force another to accept |
| Ignominious | dishonorable |
| Perfidious | faithless |
| Accouter | to provide with equipment |
| Denizen | an inhabitant |
| Lachrymose | given to weeping |
| Opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| Paucity | smallness of number |
| Albeit | even though |
| Comely | having a pleasing appearance |
| Erudite | possessing extensive knowledge from books |
| Hedonist | thinks pleasure is chief good |
| Sophistical | plausible but fallacious |
| Blithe | of a happy disposition |
| Feckless | weak, ineffective |
| Ingratiating | capable of winning favor |
| Minutiae | minor details |
| Panacea | a remedy for all ills |
| Bloviate | to speak pompously |
| Bonhomie | geniality |
| Corporeal | relating to the body |
| Mendacious | lying |
| Nugatory | of little or no importance |
| Abhorrent | not agreeable |
| Celerity | swiftness of action |
| Egalitarian | promoting human equality |
| Lassitude | a state of feeling of weariness |
| Vituperative | using abusive censure |
| Braggadocio | empty boasting |
| Flagitious | disgracefully criminal |
| Penchant | a strong liking |
| Rejoinder | an answer to a reply |
| Scintilla | a tiny amount |
| Ineluctable | impossible to avoid |
| Mellifluous | flowing sweetly |
| Platitude | a stale thought or remark |
| Puerile | childish |
| Skullduggery | dishonest activity |
| Bumptious | crudely |
| Perseverate | to continue something beyond a desired point |
| Fetid | stinking |
| Machination | a craft scheme for an evil end |
| Prescient | knowing the outcome before it happens |
| Bilious | indicative of a peevish disposition |
| Cryptic | hidden |
| Fealty | intense loyalty |
| Impasse | a predicament affording no escape |
| Minion | a servile dependent |
| Euphoria | a feeling of elation |
| Jocular | characterized by jesting |
| Obviate | to anticipate and prevent |
| Seditious | resisting lawful authority |
| Temerity | unreasonable contempt of danger |
| Gambol | frolic |
| Insuperable | incapable of being surmounted |
| Irascible | marked by hot temper |
| Purloin | to steal, often by breaching trust |
| Querulous | habitually complaining |
| Apotheosis | exaltation to divine rank |
| Irksome | tedious |
| Malefactor | a criminal |
| Profligate | wildly extravagant |
| Tantamount | equivalent in value |
| Beatific | supremely happy |
| Gumption | shrewd practical common sense |
| Hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance |
| Pulchritude | great physical beauty and appeal |
| Repartee | a quick and witty reply |
| Connoisseur | one who understands the details? |
| Lascivious | lustful |
| Malediction | the calling down of a curse |
| Salient | standing out conspicuously |
| Verisimilitude | having the appearance of truth |
| Bestrew | to lie scattered over |
| Clemency | leniency |
| Piffle | trivial nonsense |
| Ratiocinate | to reason logically |
| Smarmy | revealing a smug earnestness |
| Bombast | inflated speech |
| Garrulous | annoyingly talkative |
| Litigious | contentious |
| Maudlin | emotionally silly |
| Xeric | requiring a small amount of moisture |
| Camaraderie | a spirit of good-fellowship |
| Contumacious | stubbornly disobedient |
| Hiatus | an interruption in continuity |
| Indelible | that cannot be removed |
| Protean | versatile |
| Approbation | formal approval |
| Decamp | to break up camp |
| Factious | caused by a faction |
| Foible | a minor flaw in behavior |
| Sobriquet | an affectionate nickname |
| Deify | to make a god of |
| Flippant | lacking proper respect |
| Miscreant | an evildoer |
| Obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| Quisling | a puppet traitor for the enemy |
| Antediluvian | extremely old |
| Connubial | pertaining to marriage |
| Dour | stubbornly unyielding |
| Repast | a meal |
| Salubrious | healthful |
| Chagrin | acute vexation or embarrassment |
| Chichi | affectedly trend |
| Detritus | debris |
| Inchoate | not fully in existence |
| Sang-froid | coolness in trying circumstances |
| Comport | to conduct |
| Panoply | a splendid or impressive array |
| Ruminate | to ponder |
| Sacrosanct | sacred |
| Vagary | an extravagant notion |
| Deign | to condescend |
| Defenestrate | to throw out of a window |
| Histrionic | excessively dramatic |
| Macrocosm | the entire world |
| Nonpareil | having no equal |
| Erstwhile | in the past |
| Fait accompli | an accomplished, irreversible deed |
| Gallivant | to roam about in search of pleasure or amusement |
| Paroxysm | an outburst |
| Parse | to analyze |
| Filial | befitting a son or daughter |
| Germane | appropriate or fitting |
| Propound | to propose |
| Onus | burden |
| Sanctum | a place free from intrusion |
| Bootless | useless |
| Fiat | an arbitrary command |
| Kvetch | to complain habitually |
| Peccadillo | slight offense |
| Wastrel | a person who wastes |
| Ersatz | being a substitution |
| Flummery | nonsense |
| Hale | free from illness |
| Kismet | destiny |
| Nascent | beginning to exist |
| Appellation | a name, title, or designation |
| Fungible | interchangeable |
| Ken | cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge |
| Mélange | a mixture |
| Veritable | real; true; genuine |
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