| Question |
Answer |
| Consumate |
Extremely skillful, complete, perfect. |
| Categorical |
Unconditional, absolute, without exception. |
| Malaise |
Sense of lethargy and unease, a feeling of being run down, a feeling of being depressed. |
| Awry |
Off course, not right |
| Platitude |
Trite, overused saying, a cliche usually offered as advice or wisdom. |
| Destitute |
Extremely poor, impoverished, lacking in what is required for basic sustenance. |
| Extrovert |
Outgoing, gregarious person |
| Ephemeral |
Short lived, fleeting |
| Callow |
Immature, unsophisticated due to youthfulness, inexperienced |
| Malleable |
Easy to shape or mold |
| Legacy |
Refers to something inherited or passed down. |
| Discriminate |
To make a distinction |
| Monolithic |
Expresses both the idea of massiveness and the idea of being all of one piece |
| Abject |
Hopeless, wrecked, miserable |
| Consumate |
Extremely skillful, complete, perfect. |
| Categorical |
Unconditional, absolute, without exception. |
| Malaise |
Sense of lethargy and unease, a feeling of being run down, a feeling of being depressed. |
| Awry |
Off course, not right |
| Platitude |
Trite, overused saying, a cliche usually offered as advice or wisdom. |
| Destitute |
Extremely poor, impoverished, lacking in what is required for basic sustenance. |
| Extrovert |
Outgoing, gregarious person |
| Ephemeral |
Short lived, fleeting |
| Callow |
Immature, unsophisticated due to youthfulness, inexperienced |
| Malleable |
Easy to shape or mold |
| Legacy |
Refers to something inherited or passed down. |
| Discriminate |
To make a distinction |
| Monolithic |
Expresses both the idea of massiveness and the idea of being all of one piece |
| Abject |
Hopeless, wrecked, miserable |
| Vitriolic |
Caustic, full of bitterness, extremely nasty |
| Beset |
Besieged, surrounded on all sides, attacked by |
| Renounce |
Something means to give it up, to deny or forsake it. |
| Matriculate |
Enroll, especially in a college or university |
| Convivial |
Festive, friendly, good natured, jovial |
| Venerate |
Honor, to deeply respect, to treat with reverence, as though sacred. |
| Contiguous |
Adjoining, touching |
| Arbitrary |
Unfair,determined by impulse or individual will, having no particular rhyme or reason |
| Pristine |
Pure, unspoiled, uncorrupted, immaculately clean |
| Succinct |
Concise, short, and to the point, brief |
| Farcical |
Absurd, ridiculous, having the characteristics of a farce. |
| Nepotism |
Is the practice of showing favoritism to relatives or close friends in business or politics |
| Cogent |
persuasive, convincing, pertinent |
| Rustic |
Rural, countrified, lacking the comforts or the sophistication of the city |
| Doctrinaire |
Dogmatic, to espouse a theory, doctrine, or belief system whether or not it is practical, to be inflexible |
| Vitiate |
Pollute, to spoil, to impair, corrupt, or prevent |
| Uniform |
Consist, standard, without variation |
| Coherent |
Understandable, to make sense |
| Transgress |
Violate a law, to offend, to sin |
| Stagnation |
Refers to lack of movement that also implies staleness, a lack of progress or growth |
| Onerous |
Burdensome, oppressive, distasteful. |
| Covert |
Secret, hidden, concealed, disguised |
| Adulation |
Is excessive praise, adoration, hero worship |
| Discern |
Distinguish, to differentiate from something else, to perceive. |
| Genteel |
refined, polite, aristocratic, well bred, cultivated |
| Demagogue |
Is a rabble-rouser, a leader who tries to stir up others by plying on their emotions, rather than appealing to their reason, someone who uses people's prejudice and fears to move them to action |
| Comprehensive |
To be complete, to be inclusive, to cover a large scope, to leave nothing out |
| Integral |
Essential, in the sense of being inseparable from |
| Obtuse |
Is to be complete, to be dense, slow to catch on, unobservant, not tuned in |
| Decimate |
To destroy most of, to annihilate |
| Lethargy |
Sluggishness, laziness, drowsiness, indifference |
| Provincial |
Simple and unsophisticated |
| Relinquish |
To release, to let go of, to surrender, to stop doing |
| Noxious |
Is often used to describe odors and something that is noxious may make you sick to your stomach |
| Desiccate |
To dry out, to move the moisture from |
| Peccadillo |
Minor offense, meaningless fault, a petty violation |
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