Some Kaplan Words
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| Apace | done quickly
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| Assonance | resemblance in sound, especially in vowel sounds; partial rhyme
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| Augury | prophecy, prediction of events
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| Bromide | a dull, commonplace person or idea
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| Cursory | hastily done, superficial
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| Decamp | to leave suddenly
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| Discursive | wandering from topic to topic
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| Distaff | the female branch of a family
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| Endogamous | marrying within a specific group due to law or custom
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| Ersatz | fake
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| Esurient | hungry, greedy
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| Expatiate | to wander; to discuss or describe at length
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| Fey | otherworldly; doomed
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| Fulsome | excessive, overdone, sickeningly abundant
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| Gaucherie | a tactless or awkward act
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| Impetuous | quick to act without thinking
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| Iniquity | sin, evil act
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| Inscrutable | impossible to understand fully
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| Interregnum | interval between reigns
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| Interstice | a space between things
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| Itinerant | wandering from place to place, unsettled
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| Limpid | clear and simple; serene; transparent
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| Lugubrious | sorrowful, mournful
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| Martinet | strict disciplinarian, one who rigidly follows rules
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| Mordant | sarcastic
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| Munificent | generous
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| Noisome | stinking, putrid
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| Novitiate | period of being a beginner or novice
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| Objurgate | scold
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| Obloquy | abusive language; ill repute
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| Obsequies | funeral ceremonies
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| Obviate | to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent
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| Odious | hateful, contemptible
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| Palliate | to make less serious, ease
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| Pellucid | transparent; translucent; easily understood
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| Penultimate | next to last
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| Peregrinate | to wander from place to place
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| Perfidious | faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy
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| Peripatetic | moving from place to place
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| Periphrastic | containing too many words
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| Perspicacious | shrewd, astute, keen-witted
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| Pillory | ridicule and abuse
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| Prolix | tedious; wordy
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| Propitiate | to win over, appease
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| Prosaic | relating to prose; dull, commonplace
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| Proselytize | to convert to a particular belief or religion
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| Pusillanimous | cowardly
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| Querulous | inclined to complain, irritable
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| Quotidian | occurring daily; commonplace
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| Raillery | lighthearted jesting
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| Rapacious | greedy; predatory
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| Rebarbative | irritating; repellent
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| Recidivism | tendency to repeat previous behavior
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| Recreant | disloyal; cowardly
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| Redress | relief from wrong or injury
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| Ribald | humorous in a vulgar way
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| Riposte | a retort
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| Sententious | having a moralizing tone
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| Sepulchral | typical of a place of burial
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| Simper | to smirk, smile foolishly
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| Slake | to calm down or moderate
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| Sloth | sluggishness, laziness
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| Strident | loud, harsh, unpleasantly noisy
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| Stultify | to impair or reduce to uselessness
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| Tendentious | biased
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| Threnody | a sad poem or song
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| Timorous | timid, shy, full of apprehension
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| Turbid | muddled; unclear
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| Tyro | beginner, novice
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| Unctuous | greasy, oily, smug and falsely earnest
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| Unstinting | generous
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| Venal | willing to do wrong for money
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| Waspish | rude, behaving badly
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