MAT Vocab Word Scramble
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vocab | definition |
abstemious | sparing or moderate |
abstruse | hard to understand |
accrete | to increase by growth |
alacrity | cheerful readiness |
antipathy | firm dislike |
ascetic | hermitlike |
assiduous | hard working |
baleful | menacing; harmful |
brook | to tolerate |
capricious | unpredictable |
contumacious | stubbornly rebellious |
credulous | believing; gullible |
deleterious | harmful |
desiccate | to dry out |
didactic | instructive |
diffident | timid; no self-confidence |
discomfit | to confuse, deject, frustrate |
disinterested | unbiased |
disparate | different; incompatible |
doggerel | comic, loose verse |
effluvium | noxious vapor; escaping gas |
engender | to create or produce |
equivocal | ambiguous; intentionally confusing |
exigent | urgent |
fecund | fertile |
forbear | refrain from |
fulsome | excessive, insincere |
gainsay | to deny |
hermetic | airtight; impervious to external influence |
improvident | lacking foresight; careless |
inchoate | just beginning; not organized |
ineluctable | inescapable; unavoidable |
ingenuous | naive; simple |
insolvent | unable to pay bills |
irascible | irritable |
laconic | using few words, often rudely |
ligneous | woodlike |
munificent | very generous; lavish |
obdurate | stubborn |
palliate | to hide the seriousness of something with excuses |
panegyric | lofty praise |
parsimony | stinginess |
paucity | scarcity |
piquant | pungent |
polemic | a powerful argument to refute something |
preclude | to prevent |
probity | integrity; honesty |
propinquity | nearness |
pundit | a learned person in a particular field |
recondite | hard to understand |
repudiate | to reject, deny |
ribald | vulgar or indecent speech |
salubrious | promoting health |
spurious | doubtful; false |
supercilious | haughty |
sycophant | one who sucks up to others |
temerity | boldness; recklessness |
truculent | savagely brutal; aggresively hostile |
turpitude | shameful wickedness |
welter | a confused mass; a commotion |
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