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English Comp Vocab 1
Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amorphous | lacking form |
| Capitulate | to surrender |
| Circumspect | watchful |
| Expiate | make amend |
| Propitious | favorable conditions |
| Solipsism | only oneself exists |
| Specious | lacking real merit |
| Temerity | reckless |
| Tenuous | by a thread |
| Vitiate | to make faulty |
| Abrogate | abolish |
| Feckless | incompetent |
| Histrionic | Dramatic |
| Insipid | boring |
| Obsequious | submissive |
| Parsimonious | stingy |
| soporific | boring |
| prevaricate | lie |
| ubiquitous | everywhere |
| usurp | take over |
| Aggrandize | to glorify |
| Anathema | a thing someone hates |
| Capricious | unpredictable |
| Craven | cowardly |
| demagogue | gains power by emotion |
| diatribe | critical rant |
| iconoclast | non conformist |
| Ineffable | indescribable |
| obstreperous | resisting control |
| sedulous | diligent |
| Acumen | smarts |
| Aver | declare positively |
| Beatitude | amazing |
| Dilatory | procrastinate |
| Egregious | very bad |
| Germaine | relevant |
| Halcyon | peaceful |
| laconic | short |
| quixotic | chivalrous |
| schism | rift |
| effervescent | lively |
| eschew | shun |
| garrulous | talkative |
| petulant | snarky |
| harbinger | omen |
| polemic | controversial argument |
| progenitor | ancestor |
| stolid | unemotional |
| symmetry | uniform |
| torpid | inactive |
| abate | to diminish |
| carnal | sexual desire |
| disparate | different |
| Incipiant | beginning stage |
| pedantic | arrogantly smart |
| screed | a long written diatribe |
| slatternly | slut |
| umbrage | annoyance |
| vagary | unpredictable action |
| virulent | actively poisonous |
| antipathy | aversion |
| august | respectful person |
| bellicose | eager to fight |
| Chicanery | used to go to great lengths to win |
| Deleterious | harmful to oneself |
| inchoate | undeveloped |
| imprecate | cuss out |
| oscillate | sway back and forth |
| suppliant | pleading look |
| urbane | polite, sophisticated |
| urbane | polite, sophisticated |
| abject | support |
| aegis | support |
| cavil | criticize |
| comely | attractive |
| ephemeral | short lived |
| hackneyed | overused |
| imbroglio | misunderstanding |
| perfidious | deceitful |
| prescience | foresight |
| stultify | humiliate |