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Final Test
Alexander Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract | ADJ- theoretical; not concrete |
| Acquiescent | ADJ- reluctantly agreeable; complaint |
| Benediction | NOUN- good wishes; a blessing |
| Bolster | VERB- to support; reinforce |
| Capitulate | VERB- surrender; yield |
| Castigate | VERB- scold; punish |
| Despot | NOUN- tyrant |
| Discerning | ADJ- insightful; perceptive |
| Esoteric | ADJ- known to, or understood by, a limited group of people |
| Extemporaneous | ADJ- done without planning; improvised |
| Abstract | ADJ- theoretical; not concrete |
| Acquiescent | ADJ- reluctantly agreeable; complaint |
| Benediction | NOUN- good wishes; a blessing |
| Bolster | VERB- to support; reinforce |
| Capitulate | VERB- surrender; yield |
| Castigate | VERB- scold; punish |
| Despot | NOUN- tyrant |
| Discerning | ADJ- insightful; perceptive |
| Esoteric | ADJ- known to, or understood by, a limited group of people |
| Extemporaneous | ADJ- done without planning; improvised |
| Fastidious | ADJ- difficult to please |
| Flagrant | ADJ- openly and obviously evil; glaring; conspicuous |
| Garrulous | ADJ- very talkative; loquacious |
| Gullible | ADJ- easily decieved |
| Hackneyed | ADJ- unorignial; trite |
| Heinous | ADJ- shockingly evil |
| Immutable | ADJ- unable to change |
| Impetuous | ADJ- taking sudden action; hasty; impulsive |
| Jocular | ADJ- jocking; playful; jesting; witty |
| Judicious | ADJ- wise; making good decisions |
| Kindle | VERB- start a fire; ignite; arouse |
| Lethargic | ADJ- tired; sluggish; drowsy |
| Loquacious | ADJ- talkative |
| Malediction | NOUN- evil speech; curse |
| Malign | VERB- to say evil or harmful things about someone; defame; vilify |
| Neophyte | NOUN- beginner |
| Nostalgic | ADJ- wishing for a return to the way things used to be; longing for the past; homesick |
| Obscure | ADJ- hazy; unfamiliar; difficult to understand |
| Onerous | ADJ- burdensome; oppressive |
| Paltry | ADJ- worthless; insignificant; petty |
| Obseqious | ADJ- behaving like a meek, spineless servant; subservient; sycophantic |
| Mundane | ADJ- ordinary, earthy( not spiritual); practical; temporary |
| Pithy | ADJ- to the point; concise |
| Affable | ADJ- friendly; easygoing |
| Obtuse | ADJ- dull; blunt; unintelligent; lacking sharpness |
| Resign | VERB- give in; acquiesce; relinquish |
| Serpintine | ADJ- coiled; twisted; winding |
| Timorous | ADJ- afraid |
| Vagrant | NOUN- homeless person; wanderer |
| Precarious | ADJ- risky; uncertian |
| Quandary | NOUN- a state of confusion or doubt; dilemma |
| Rampant | ADJ- unrestrained; widespread |
| Reticent | ADJ- quiet; uncommunicative |
| Spurious | ADJ- false; fake; misleading |
| Stoic | NOUN- a person who shows no response to pleasure or pain; someone who is impassive |
| Terse | ADJ- of few words; to the point; pithy |
| Trepidation | NOUN- fear |
| Ubiquitous | ADJ- exisiting everywhere at the same time |
| Unkempt | ADJ- messy; sloppy |
| Usurp | VERB- to seize or take over by force |
| Choler | NOUN- anger |
| Despontent | AADJ- feeling hopeless or depressed |
| Endorse | VERB- promote; recommend |
| Fledgling | NOUN- beginner |
| Gravity | NOUN- seriousness |
| Impede | VERB- get in the way; hinder |
| Myriad | ADJ- large number; many |
| Relegate | VERB- reduce or demote to an inferior place or position; banish |
| Anathema | NOUN- religious curse, or the thing or person being cursed |
| Antithesis | NOUN- opposite |
| Belie | VERB- to give an impression that is the opposite of the way things really are; to misrepresent |
| Bombast | NOUN- speech or wrtiting intended to impress the audience; pompous |
| Coalesce | VERB- unite; grow together |
| Enervate | VERB- sap the strength; weaken |
| Ethereal | ADJ- heavenly fine; delicately beautiful |
| Evasive | ADJ- tending to avoid giving direct answers |
| Furtive | ADJ- sneaky; secretive |
| Hiatus | NOUN- a gap; interruption; a break in community; a pause |
| Impasse | NOUN- a situation from which you cannot escape; stalemate |
| Inscrutable | ADJ- mysterious |
| Latent | ADJ- existing but inactive, such as a certain quality; dormant; invisible |
| Magnate | NOUN- person of great power |
| Vacuous | ADJ- empty; stupid; purposeless |
| Veracity | NOUN- truth |
| Waive | VERB- to voluntarily abandon a lega lright; relinquish; postpone |
| Assail | VERB- to attack with words or force |
| Wither | VERB- to shrivel up or die; lose life or energy |
| Xenophobia | NOUN- the fear or hatred of anything foreign |
| Yield | VERB- give up; give in |
| Yoke | VERB- to link; or join together; marry |
| Circumspect | ADJ- cautious |
| Zealot | NOUN- person with an extreme enthusiasm for a belief or activity; fanatic |
| Zenith | NOUN- the highest point; apex |
| Acrimony | NOUN- words or behavior filled with harshness or anger |
| Ambiguous | ADJ- unclear; vague; having several possible interpretations |
| Desultory | ADJ- lacking a plan; aimless |
| Beguile | VERB- to cheat or deceive, usually through charm; to amuse |
| Bequeath | VERB- to leave behind or hand down through a will; transmit |
| Capricious | ADJ- unpredictable |
| Evasive | ADJ- tending to avoid giving direct answers |
| Cloister | NOUN- secluded or isolated from the outside world; also, a place of seclusion |
| Defame | VERB- to say things harmful to a person's reputation; malign; vilify |
| Deride | VERB- mafe fun of; ridicule |
| Fulminate | VERB- to explode, either with sound or anger |
| Emulate | VERB- imitate |
| Eccentric | ADJ- different from most, especially in personality or behavior |
| Fallacious | ADJ- false; misleading |
| Frugal | ADJ- careful with money; thrifty |
| Gregarious | ADJ- sociable; extroverted; enjoying companionship |
| Glutton | NOUN- a person who consumes huge quantitites of food or drink; someone with great endurance |
| Heresy | NOUN- an opinion expressed in defiance of generally accepted ideas |
| Homage | NOUN- respect paid to someone or something; tribute; honor |
| Imminent | ADJ- about to take place; happening soon |
| Incongrous | ADJ- out of place |
| Ingenuous | ADJ- naive; unsophisticated; inexperienced |
| Impair | VERB- weaken in strength or value |
| Indigent | ADJ- very poor |
| Intractable | ADJ- stubborn; immovable |
| Jeopardy | NOUN- the threat or possibility of danger |
| Juxtapose | VERB- to place side-by-side |
| Marred | ADJ- spoiled; scratched; blemished |
| Meager | ADJ- small in size or amount; thin; weak |
| Laconic | ADJ- quiet; of few words; terse |
| Levity | NOUN- lightness; playfulness; jocularity |
| Mellifluous | ADJ- smooth; sweetly flowing |
| Mendacity | NOUN- a lie; false statement |
| Negligent | ADJ- careless in a situation that could result in harm; neglectful |
| Mundane | ADJ- ordinary, earthly (not spiritual); practical; temporary |
| Nurture | VERB- provide care and support; nourish; train or educate |
| Optimist | NOUN- someone who believes everything will turn out okay |
| Nuance | NOUN- slight degree; shade of difference |
| Opulence | NOUN- luxury; wealth; riches |
| Paragon | NOUN- model of excellence; the best |
| Pervade | VERB- to spread to every part |
| Phlegmatic | ADJ- calm; unemotional |
| Obliterate | VERB- remove or destroy completely; erase |
| Placate | VERB- to appease; pacify; mollify |
| Ponderous | ADJ- slow; weighty; labored |
| Prodigious | ADJ- very large |
| Pacifist | NOUN- a person who refuses to fight |
| Pernicious | ADJ- destructive |
| Prudent | ADJ- wise; shrewd; cautious |
| Reprove | VERB- scold; criticize; disapprove of |
| Slough | VERB- discard; cast off; shed |
| Platitude | NOUN- dull; trite statement |
| Protract | VERB- extend in time and space |
| Sonorous | ADJ- loud, full in sound; booming |
| Succinct | ADJ- short and to the point; concise |
| Tenuous | ADJ- thin; flimsy |
| Vacillate | VERB- move back and forth between choices, unable to decide |
| Rebuttal | NOUN- denial or contradiction; arguement; refutation |
| Uniform | ADJ- similar; consistent |
| Validate | VERB- confirm; corroborate; support; sanction |
| Wane | VERB- grow smaller |
| Wax | VERB- grow gradually larger |
| Taciturn | ADJ- quiet |
| Vapid | ADJ- dull; boring; lacking flavor or spark |
| Sanguine | ADJ- optimistic; cheerful |
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