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stadler
426-450
Question | Answer |
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bias | patiality, prejudice |
burgeoned | to develop rapidly |
contemptuous | scornful |
crave | to ask, need, long for earnestly |
deleterious | harmful to health |
encumbrance | a burden, hindrance |
fatuous | smugly stupid |
frustrate | to cause to have no effect on, to keep from an objective |
garble | to distort or confuse so as to mislead |
gaudy | bright and showy but in bad taste |
germane | truly relevant, pertinent |
hoax | trick or fraud |
invioable | sacred, not to be violated, indestructible |
malleable | can be hammered or pressed into shape, adaptable |
paramount | chief, supreme |
pecuniary | of or involving money |
peremptory | insisting on obedience |
preservere | to continue doing something in spite of difficulty, opposition |
procrastinate | to postpone action |
profound | very deep, having intellectual depth |
recoil | to draw back, to spring back |
shibboleth | an old slogan or principle |
slovenly | carless and untidy in appearance |
tenable | to be defended against attack |
therapy | treatment designed to relieve (pain, disability, etc.) |