| Question |
Answer |
| Abate |
to lessen in intensity or degree |
| Accolade |
an expression of praise |
| Adulation |
excessive praise; intense adoration
|
| Aesthetic |
relating to art and beauty
|
| Ameliorate |
to make better or more tolerable |
| Ascetic |
one who practices self-denial, |
| Avarice |
greed, esp for wealth |
| Axiom |
a universally recognized principle |
| Burgeon |
to grow rapidly or flourish |
| Bucolic |
rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
|
| Cacophony |
harsg, jarring, discordant sound |
| Canon |
an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
|
| Catalyst |
a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction w/o itself changing or thing that causes change
|
| Caustic |
burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
| Chary |
wary, cautious, sparing |
| Cogent |
appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
| Complaisance |
the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
| Contentious |
argumentative; causing controversy |
| Contrite |
regretful; penitent |
| Dearth |
lack of |
| Demur |
to question or oppose |
| Didactic |
intended to teach or instruct |
| Disinterested |
free of bias or self-interest |
| Dogmatic |
expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles. |
| Ebullience |
the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
| Eclectic |
composed of elements drawn from various sources |
| Elegy |
a poem lamenting the dead of someone |
| Emollient |
soothing, esp. the skin, making less harsh. |
| Empirical |
based on experiment or observation |
| Enigmatic |
mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand. |
| Ephemeral |
bried;fleeting |
| Esoteric |
intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
| Eulogy |
a speech honoring the dead |
| Exonerate |
to remove blame |
| Facetious |
humorous or playful |
| Fallacy |
an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
| Furtive |
marked by stealth; covert |
| Gregarious |
sociable; outgoing |
| Harangue |
to deliver a long pompous speech or tirade |
| Heretical |
violating accepted dogma or convention |
| Hyperbole |
an exaggerated statement, a figure of speech. |
| Impecunious |
lacking funds, without money |
| Incipient |
beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| Inert |
unmoving; sluggish |
| Innocuous |
harmless; causing no damage |
| Instransigent |
refusing to compromise |
| inveigle |
to obtain by deception or flattery |
| Morose |
sad, sullen, melancholy |
| Odious |
evoking intense dislike |
| Opaque |
impenetrable by light |
| Oscillation |
swinging back and forth |
| penurious |
penny-pinching,excessively cheap, codo |
| Pernicious |
extremely harmful; potential to cause death |
| Peruse |
to examine with great care |
| Pious |
extremely devout |
| Precursor |
one that proceeds and indicates or announces another |
| Preen |
to dress up; to primp |
| Prodigious |
abundant in size, force or strength; extraordinary |
| Prolific |
producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
| Putrefy |
to rot and give foul odor |
| Quaff |
to drink deeply |
| quiescence |
stillness; motionless
|
| Redoubtable |
awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
| Sanction |
a penalty for violating authority or permission |
| Satire |
a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor |
| Squalid |
sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
| Stoic |
indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
| Supplant |
to take the place of |
| Torpid |
lethargic, sluggish |
| Ubiquitous |
existing everywhere at the same time |
| Urbane |
sophisticated; refined |
| Vilify |
to defame, to characterize harshly |
| Viscous |
thick, sticky |
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