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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aegis | shield |
| altruism | concern for others |
| factious | causing disagreement |
| ignoble | dishonorable; shameful |
| boor | rude, impolite person |
| perspicacity | keenness of judgment |
| fervent | eager; earnest |
| rectify | correct; make right |
| enervate | to weaken |
| besiege | to overwhelm; to surround and attack |
| ephemeral | lasting only a short time; short-lived |
| carrion | decaying flesh |
| erotic | pertaining to sexual love |
| amorphous | shapeless, formless |
| opulent | rich, luxurious; wealthy |
| impotent | powerless; lacking strength |
| antithesis | an exact opposite; an opposite extreme |
| maelstrom | whirlpool; turbulence; agitated state of mind |
| emendation | a correction |
| chagrin | embarrassment; a complete lack of courage |
| bauble | a showy but useless thing |
| diaphanous | very sheer and light |
| labyrinth | complicated network of winding passages; a maze |
| gloat | to look at or think about with great satisfaction |
| impediment | a barrier; obstruction |
| bestial | savage; brutal |
| effete | warren out; barren |
| shard | a fragment |
| bland | mild;tasteless; dull |
| nihilism | total rejection of established laws |
| pedestrian | ordinary or dull |
| bona fide | in good faith |
| adventitious | accidental; nonessential |
| fecund | fertile, productive |
| deviate | to turn aside from a course, to stray |
| obfuscate | to confuse, bewilder |
| impale | to pierce with a sharp stick through the body |
| extenuate | to lessen the seriousness by providing partial excuses |
| parochial | local; narrow; limited |
| glower | to stare angrily |
| edify | to improve someone morally |
| ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation |
| cataclysm | a violent change |
| optimum | best; most favorable; ideal |
| importune | to ask persistently; to beg |
| celibate | abstaining from intercourse |
| fortuitous | lucky; by chance |
| recapitulate | to summarize; to repeat briefly |
| perfunctory | done without care; in a routine fashion |
| baroque | overly decorated |
| hedonism | pursuit of pleasure, especially of the senses |
| obloquy | strong disapproval; a bad reputation resulting from public criticism |
| debacle | a complete failure; a total collapse |
| quasi- | resembling; seeming; half |
| besmirch | to make dirty; to stain |
| imperative | extremely necessary; vitally important |
| sacrosanct | extremely holy |
| sadistic | deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others |
| demeanor | behavior; manner of conducting oneself |
| facetious | comical; jocular; flippant |
| Fop | An excessively fashion-conscious man |
| Imprecation | A curse |
| Non sequitur | Something that does not logically follow |
| Sanguine | Cheerful; optimistic |
| Bowdlerize | To remove offensive passages of a play, novel |
| Impair | To weaken; to cause to become worse |
| Panegyric | An expression of praise |
| Quandary | A puzzling situation; a dilemma |
| Ebullient | Enthusiastic |
| Deference | Respect; consideration |
| Carnal | Relating to physical appetite, especially sexual |
| Nebulous | Hazy; vague; uncertain |
| Rakish | Dashingly stylish and confident |
| Elegy | A sad or mournful poem |
| Pedantic | Tending to show off one's learning |
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