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exam vocab
Stack #195811
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tirade | diatribe |
| acquiesce | to go along with; to agree with |
| supercilious | haughty |
| zealot | fervor |
| recalcitrant | disobedient |
| subside | to cease or stop |
| didactic | instruct |
| recluse | a person who lives alone, apart from others |
| rejuvenate | to make young again |
| embroil | to bring into discord or conflict; to cause strife |
| suberfuge | to evade a rule, escape a consequence or hide something |
| aggrandizement | power |
| enervated | devitalize |
| laconic | terse |
| succinct | concise |
| lampoon | ridicule |
| immutable | unchanging, constant, remaining the same |
| meager | lacking of fullness or richness, scanty or inadecquate |
| bestow | to present as an honor; to pass along |
| cacophony | noise |
| cajole | persuade |
| inadvertent | careless |
| incipient | beginning |
| officious | meddling |
| opulent | plentiful |
| overt | out in the open, without cover |
| bethrothed | to become engaged |
| blithe | carefree |
| capricious | fickle |
| caustic | harsh, abrasive, or unkind |
| censure | condemnation |
| comely | attractive; pretty |
| advocate | to speak in favor or of support |
| aesthetic | beauty |
| bombastic | high sounding, inflated, pretentious |
| extemporaneous | contemptible, disgusting |
| relegate | to send to an inferior position or place |
| remorse | sorrow or guilt |
| stoic | one who is impassive to pain |
| despicable | contemptible disgusting |
| stultifying | rediculous |
| latent | dormant |
| accost | to approach someone and speak condidly |
| unremitting | without stopping, ceaseless |
| fallacy | dissimilation |
| fervor | emotion |
| garrulous | loquacious |
| guile | cunning |
| urbane | suave |
| levity | lack of seriousness; lightness of mind or behavior |
| surmise | inference |
| vicarious | second-hand |
| concerted | to work together as a group for a common purpose |
| deprecate | dissaprove of |
| morose | gloomy |
| tactless | offendingly blunt |
| abominable | repugnant or loathsome |
| abstain | to voluntary do withouut something such as food or drink |
| abstract | summary |
| accentuate | to accent |
| obsolete | out of date |
| parsimonius | stingy |
| brunt | the main force of an attack |
| partisan | biased |
| lassitude | listless |
| marred | spoil |
| affinity | having an attraction to something or someone |
| tawdry | cheap or tacky in a vulgar way |
| probascis | a long nose or snout of an animal |
| hackneyed | trite |
| equivocal | misleading |
| vitriolic | caustic, scathing |
| rebuff | to refuse an offer; to snub |
| lackluster | lacking brilliance, vitality or spirit |
| terse | concise, brief, and to the point |
| thrawt | to block, impede, or prevent from happening |
| diatribe | argument |
| volatile | explosive |
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