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vocab week 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 121. furtive | adj. done quickly and with stealth to avoid being noticed; secret. |
| 122. galvanize | v. to arouse suddenly; to startle. |
| 123. garbled | adj. confused; mixed up (e.g., facts, statements, letters.) |
| 124. garner | v. to gather and store away; to collect. |
| 125. garrulous | adj. talkative. |
| 126. gratuitous | adj. freely given; unnecessary; uncalled for. |
| 127. guile | n. crafty deceit; cunning. |
| 128. gullible | adj. easily deceived. |
| 129. hackneyed | adj. used too often; trite; commonplace. |
| 130. haphazard | adj. not planned; random. |
| 131. hedonist | n. one who lives solely for pleasure. |
| 132. heretic | n. a person who upholds religious doctrines contrary to the established beliefs of his church. (By extension, a heretic may be used to describe a person who holds an unpopular belief.) |
| 133. hierarchy | n. organization by rank, class or grade. |
| 134. homogeneous | adj. similar; uniform in nature. |
| 135. hyperbole | n. an exaggerated statement used as a figure of speech for rhetorical effect. |
| 136. hypocritical | adj. insincere; pretending to what one is not. |
| 137. hypothetical | supposed; assumed. |
| 138. iconoclast | n. a person who attacks cherished beliefs or established institutions. |
| 139. immaterial | adj. insignificant; unimportant. |
| 140. imminent | adj. about to occur. |