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VWS Level F 11-15
another shitload of stupid ass words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstemious | adj. moderate, sparing (as in eating or drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline, temperate, sober, moderate |
| censurable | adj. deserving blame or correction, discreditable, reprehinsible |
| contingent | adj. likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance; conditional, dependent n. a representative group forming part of a larger body, a detachment |
| corroborate | v. to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify |
| denizen | n. an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place |
| discursive | adj. passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic, digressive, diffuse, wandering, episodic |
| disseminate | v. to scatter or spread widely, disperse, publicize, broadcast, circulate |
| dowdy | adj. poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste |
| florid | adj. highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy, flushed, ruddy, flowery, frilly flamboyant |
| foist | v. to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty, or coersion |
| gauche | adj. awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy |
| heresy | n. an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred, unorthodox belief |
| inculate | v. to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly, instill, implant, infuse, ingrain, imbue |
| palpable | adj. capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized, tangible, plain, obvious, manifest |
| perceptive | adj. having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation, insightful, discerning, observant |
| pernicious | adj. extremely harmful; deadly, fatal, injurious, deleterious, baleful, noxious |
| salient | adj. leaping, jumping, or springing forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous, striking, notable, protrusive, obvious n. a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward |
| satiate | v. to satisfy completely; to fill to excess, gratify, cloy, surfeit, gorge adj. full, satisfied |
| sear | v. to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, dessicate, singe |
| specious | adj, deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit, sophistic, casuistic |
| absolve | v. to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt, acquit, exonerate, vindicate, excuse, pardon |
| caricature | n. a representation (esp. a drawing) in which the subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated, cartoon, burlesque, parody, lampoon v. to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way |
| clangor | n. a loud ringing sound, din, clamor, uproar v. to make a loud ringing noise |
| contiguous | adj. side by side, touching, near; adjacent in time, adjoining, abutting |
| cupidity | n. an eager desire for something, greed, avarice, rapacity, craving, lust |
| deleterious | adj. harmful, injurious, detrimental, destructive, pernicious, damaging |
| enhance | v. to raise to a higher degree, to increase the value or desirability of, improve, magnify, heighten, elevate |
| enthrall | v. to captivate, charm, hold spellbound, to enslave, to imprison, fascinate, enchant, attract, bewitch |
| extenuate | v. to lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses, moderate, mitigate, diminish, downplay |
| implicit | adj. implied or understood though unexpressed, without doubts or reservations, unquestioning, potentially contained it, inferred, tacit, unspoken, unconditional |
| incisive | adj. sharp, keen, penetrating (with a suggestion of decisiveness and effectiveness) acute, cutting, perceptive, trenchant |
| ostentatious | adj, marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy, flashy, overdone, affected, flambouyant |
| paragon | n. a model of excellence or perfection, exemplar, ideal, paradigm, model |
| paraphrase | v. to restate in other words, reword, rephrase n. a statement that presents a given idea in a new language, rendition, version |
| politic | adj. prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed, artful, expedient, tactful, diplomatic, judicious |
| prosaic | adj. dull, lacking in distinction or originality, matter-of-fact, straightforward, characteristic of prose, not poetic, commonplace, humdrum, literal, pedestrian |
| redundant | adj. extra, excess, more than is needed, wordy, repetitive, profuse, lush, unnecessary, superfluous, verbose, prolix |
| sanctimonious | adj. making a show of virtue or righteousness, hypocritically moralistic or pious, self-righteous, canting, holier-tan-thou |
| scintillating | adj, sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to mental or personal qualities), stimulating, lively |
| winsome | adj. charming, attractive, pleasing (often suggesting a childlike charm and innocence), engaging, delightful, prepossessing |
| abet | v. to encourage, assist, aid, support (esp in something wrong or unworthy) |
| aver | v. to affirm, declare confidently, assert, asseverate, avouch |
| blatant | adj. noisy in a coarse, offensive way, obvious or conspicuous, esp in an unfavorable sense, flagrant, glaring, egregious |
| broach | v. to bring up or begin to talk about (a subject), to announce, introduce, to break the surface of the water, to turn sideways to the wind and waves, to pierce (a keg or cask) in order to draw off liquid n. a spit for roasting, a tool for tapping casks |
| buttress | v. to support, prop up, strengthen, bolster, reinforce, brace, shore up n. a supporting structure |
| carousal | n. noisy revelry or merrymaking, usually with heavy drinking, drunken revel |
| collate | v. to compare critically in order to note differences, similarities, etc. to arrange in order for some specific purpose, sort out, cross check, rearrange |
| connoisseur | n. an expert, one who is well qualified to pass critical judgments, esp one of the fine arts, authority, savant, pundit |
| disconsolate | adj. deeply unhappy or dejected, without hope, beyond consolation, grief-stricken, inconsolable, comfortless |
| encumber | v. to weigh down or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt), to fill up, block up, hinder, overload, saddle, hamper, clog |
| forment | v. to promote trouble or rebellion, to apply warm liquids to, warm, instigate, incite, stir up |
| grisly | adj. frightful, horrible, ghastly, gruesome, gory, hideous |
| herculean | adj. H- relating to Hercules, h- characterized by great strength, very hard to do in the sense of requiring unsual strength, mighty, powerful, arduous, onerous, colossal |
| impassive | adj. showing no feeling or emotion, inanimate, motionless, stoical, insensible |
| inauspicious | adj. unquestionable, beyond dispute, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable |
| nonplussed | adj. puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss, perplexed, baffled, stumped, flabbergasted |
| opportune | adj. suitable or convenient for a particular purpose, occurring at an appropriate time, timely, felicitous |
| prolific | adj. abundantly productive, abundant, profuse, fruitful, fecund, proliferous |
| rejoinder | n. a reply to a reply, esp from the defendant in a legal suit, answer, retort, riposte |
| amenable | adj. willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive, liable to be held responsible, agreeable, compliant, recalcitrant |
| berate | v. to scold sharply, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand |
| carnage | n. large-scale slaughter or loss of life, butchery, bloodbath, massacre |
| credulous | adj. too ready to believe, easily deceived, gullible |
| criterion | n. a rule, test, standard for judgment or evaluation, yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon |
| deplete | v. to use up as a result of spending or consumption, to diminish greatly, exhaust, empty, drain |
| expatiate | v. to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail, to move about freely, elaborate, enlarge, wander, descant, wander, roam |
| extraneous | adj. coming from the outside, foreign, present but not essential, irrelevant, incidental, extrinsic |
| inception | n. the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. commencement, inauguration, outset |
| infirmity | n. a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral), affliction,, malady, defect |
| jejune | adj. lacking in nutritive value, lacking in interest or substance, immature, juvenile, vapid, insipid, puerile, childish |
| obdurate | adj. stubborn, unyielding, obstinate, adamant |
| potpourri | n. a collection of diverse or misc. items, a general mixture, petals mixed with spices for scent, hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medley |
| precocious | adj. showing unusually early development (esp in talents and mental capacity), forward, gifted, advanced |
| sadistic | adj. delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel, brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish |
| sententious | adj, self-righteous, characterized by moralizing, given to use of maxims or adages, saying much in few words, pithy, aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic |
| supplicate | v. to beg earnestly and humbly, plead, petition, implore, entreat |
| surfeit | n. an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust, glut v. to feed or supply with anything to excess, cloy, satiate |
| tortuous | adj. winding, twisted, crooked, highly involved, complex, devious, circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthe |
| turgid | adj. swollen, bloated, filled to excess, overdecorated or excessive in language |
| adamant | adj. firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible n. an extremely hard substance |
| brouhaha | n. a confused hodgepodge of sounds, hubbub, an uproar or commotion that goes far beyond what is justified, furor, hullabaloo, tumult, pandemonium |
| bulwark | n. a strong defense or protection,a solid wall-like structure for defense, stronghold, citadel, bastion, rampart v. to provide such defense or protection |
| choleric | adj. easily made angry, bad-tempered, irascible, testy, splenetic, bilious |
| cloy | v. to spoil or destroy an appetite by too much indulgence, esp in sweet or rich things, to glut, satiate, surfeit |
| curtail | v. to cut short, bring to a halt or end sooner than expected, to reduce, limit, abbreviate, abridge, contract |
| deference | n. courteous yielding to the wishes and ideas or another person, great respect marked by submission, as to a superior, consideration, courtesy |
| definitive | adj. conclusive, final, representing the limit of what can be done, exhaustive, authoritative |
| demeanor | n. the way a person behaves, overall impression made by comportment, manner, etc. facial appearance, mien, conduct, behavior, bearing, carriage |
| enigmatic | adj. puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood, baffling, mysterious, |
| impromptu | adj., adv. without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily done, spontaneous n. an extemporaneous composition or remark, a minimal piece suggestive of improvisation |
| mawkish | adj. excessively and objectionably sentimental, having a mildly sickening flavor, sentimentalized, maudlin, mushy, nauseating |
| mollify | v. to soften, make gently, pacify, to calm, allay (as in emotion), assuage, placate, to reduce in intensity |
| onus | n. something that is heavy or burdensome (esp. an unwelcome responsibility), a stigma, blame, burden, obligation, duty |
| presentiment | n. a vague sense of approaching misfortune, foreboding, premonition, hunch |
| profligate | adj. given over to dissipation and self-indulgence, immoral, recklessly extravagant, prodigal, improvidant n. a person given to self-indulgent and wild spending, spendthrift |
| remit | v. to send or hand in (as money), to cancel (as a penalty or punishment), forgive, pardon, to lessen, dimish, to put off, postpone, defer |
| requisite | adj. needed, necessary, regarded as essential or indispensable, required, obligatory, incumbent |
| sartorial | adj. of or pertaining to a tailor or his work, having to do with clothes or dress (esp men's) |
| thwart | v. to oppose successfully, to prevent, frustrate, foil, baffle |
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