| Question |
Answer |
| PAINSTAKING
"painstacking research" |
THOROUGH; CAREFUL; PRECISE |
| NOTORIOUS
"a notorious gangster" |
infamous; widley known and usually unfavorably |
| Utopia
"To a warden, utopia is an escape-proof jail"
|
an imaginary and remote place of perfection |
| Privy
"a privy place to rest and think" |
confidential; secret |
| Epitome
"he is seen...as the epitome of the right-of-central intellectual" |
a model; a typification; a represenation |
| Ornate
"ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato" |
elaborate; lavish; decorated
|
| Plethora
"a plethora of workers helped make this possible" |
an extreme excess or abundance
an extreme excess or abundance
|
| Derivative
"a highly derivative prose style" |
taken directly from a source; unoriginal |
| Forbearance
"he needs a calm forbearance until his rage slows" |
patience; self-restraint |
| Gallivant
"gallivanting around town in his new car" |
to wander; to roam about in search of amusement |
| Nebulous
"nebulous distinction betwwen pride and conceit"
|
vaguely defined; cloudy |
| Quagmire
"he was struggling in the deepening quagmire of the Algerian war" |
a messy, difficult situation |
| Surmise
"I surmised that the butler did it" |
to infer with little evidence |
| Extol
"extol the virtues of one's children" |
to praise; to revere |
| Lurid
"a lurid account of the crime" |
ghastly; gruesome; sensational |
| Usurp
"usurp a neighbor's land" |
to seize by force; to take possession of without right |
| Succinct
"a succinct reply", "a succinct style" |
marked by compact precision |
| Ingratiate
"She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration" |
to gain favor with someone by conscious effort |
| Myriad
"the myriad fish in the ocean", "the myriad life of the metropolis" |
numerous, countless, (n.) a very large number |
| Cognizant
"our youth are cognizant of the law" |
aware, mindful |
| Deprecate
"The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" |
to belittle; to depreciate |
| Corroborate
"We have no records to support and corroborate what we deliver" |
to support with evidence; to make more certain |
| Invective
"he let loose at him with a mess of invective about writers" |
abusive, reproachful, or accusatory language |
| Bane
"the bane of my life" |
source of harm or ruin |
| Rhapsodize
"poets who know no better rhapsodize about the peace of nature" |
to be overly enthusiastic about something |
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