WordsoftheWeek1
| Description: | 10 words |
| Category: | English Vocabulary |
| Created by: | studystack12 on 2008-09-18 |
| Question | Answer |
| Dissimulation | to disguise or hide true feelings |
| erratic | unpredictable |
| evanescent | to vanish or pass away like vapor or fleeting |
| impunity | exemption from penalty, punishment |
| incoherent | unclear, confused, hard to follow |
| inscrutable | not easily understood |
| irrevocable | impossible to retract or revoke |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them |
| preclude | prevent something from happening |
| sagacious | showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; shrewd |
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antagonist- an opponent antiseptic- something used to kill germs; free of germs antisocial- unable to associate with other people; not sociable contradiction- a statement that is opposite to another statement counterbalance- a weight used to balance another weight; to balance or offset counterproductive- producing the opposite of what is desired or intended oblique- not straight; slanting, inclined, or sloping obnoxious- very unpleasant and objectionable obscure- to make unclear; to conceal or make less obvious obstinate- unyielding; unreasonably determined to have one's own way |
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