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Quiz #1
American/Whisl 2014-15
Question | Answer |
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Adroit | Skillful |
Warily | Cautiously, with great care |
Verbatim | Word for word, exactly as written or spoken |
Unkempt | Untidy; not properly maintained |
Tentative | Experimental in nature; uncertain |
Mire | Thick and deep mud A situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself |
Stolid | not easily moved mentally or emotionally; dull |
Indisputable | unable to be challenged or denied |
Acclimate | to adapt to a new climate |
Abrasive | causing irritation |
Magnitude | The size, extent or importance of something |
Dour | stern, gloomy |
Deploy | to position or arrange |
Bereft | Deprived of; made unhappy through a loss |
Augment | To make larger; to increase |
Motif | Reoccurring story features, theme or idea |
Archetype | the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based |
Puffery | Undue or exaggerated praise |
Velocity | the speed of something in a given direction |
Ignoble | Of low grade or quality; inferior |
Ambidextrous | able to use both hands equally well; very skillful |
Adulterate | to corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value |