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Kaplan Words
Some Kaplan Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apace | done quickly |
| Assonance | resemblance in sound, especially in vowel sounds; partial rhyme |
| Augury | prophecy, prediction of events |
| Bromide | a dull, commonplace person or idea |
| Cursory | hastily done, superficial |
| Decamp | to leave suddenly |
| Discursive | wandering from topic to topic |
| Distaff | the female branch of a family |
| Endogamous | marrying within a specific group due to law or custom |
| Ersatz | fake |
| Esurient | hungry, greedy |
| Expatiate | to wander; to discuss or describe at length |
| Fey | otherworldly; doomed |
| Fulsome | excessive, overdone, sickeningly abundant |
| Gaucherie | a tactless or awkward act |
| Impetuous | quick to act without thinking |
| Iniquity | sin, evil act |
| Inscrutable | impossible to understand fully |
| Interregnum | interval between reigns |
| Interstice | a space between things |
| Itinerant | wandering from place to place, unsettled |
| Limpid | clear and simple; serene; transparent |
| Lugubrious | sorrowful, mournful |
| Martinet | strict disciplinarian, one who rigidly follows rules |
| Mordant | sarcastic |
| Munificent | generous |
| Noisome | stinking, putrid |
| Novitiate | period of being a beginner or novice |
| Objurgate | scold |
| Obloquy | abusive language; ill repute |
| Obsequies | funeral ceremonies |
| Obviate | to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent |
| Odious | hateful, contemptible |
| Palliate | to make less serious, ease |
| Pellucid | transparent; translucent; easily understood |
| Penultimate | next to last |
| Peregrinate | to wander from place to place |
| Perfidious | faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy |
| Peripatetic | moving from place to place |
| Periphrastic | containing too many words |
| Perspicacious | shrewd, astute, keen-witted |
| Pillory | ridicule and abuse |
| Prolix | tedious; wordy |
| Propitiate | to win over, appease |
| Prosaic | relating to prose; dull, commonplace |
| Proselytize | to convert to a particular belief or religion |
| Pusillanimous | cowardly |
| Querulous | inclined to complain, irritable |
| Quotidian | occurring daily; commonplace |
| Raillery | lighthearted jesting |
| Rapacious | greedy; predatory |
| Rebarbative | irritating; repellent |
| Recidivism | tendency to repeat previous behavior |
| Recreant | disloyal; cowardly |
| Redress | relief from wrong or injury |
| Ribald | humorous in a vulgar way |
| Riposte | a retort |
| Sententious | having a moralizing tone |
| Sepulchral | typical of a place of burial |
| Simper | to smirk, smile foolishly |
| Slake | to calm down or moderate |
| Sloth | sluggishness, laziness |
| Strident | loud, harsh, unpleasantly noisy |
| Stultify | to impair or reduce to uselessness |
| Tendentious | biased |
| Threnody | a sad poem or song |
| Timorous | timid, shy, full of apprehension |
| Turbid | muddled; unclear |
| Tyro | beginner, novice |
| Unctuous | greasy, oily, smug and falsely earnest |
| Unstinting | generous |
| Venal | willing to do wrong for money |
| Waspish | rude, behaving badly |
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