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stadler
426-450
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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.) |