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last 100 vocab 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstemious | sparing in the use of food and drink |
| chimerical | fanciful |
| facet | side;aspect |
| fetish | object of worship |
| Machiavellian | politically cunning |
| ochlocracy | mob rule |
| omniscient | all-knowing |
| pariah | outcast |
| peremtorty | decisive and final |
| poignant | painfully moving |
| querulous | complaining |
| specious | subtly false |
| ubiquitous | found everywhere |
| unctuous | bland and smugly smooth in pretense of concern, sincerity, or spirituality |
| vainglorious | boastful |
| monograph | a treatise on one subject |
| monologue | one person speech |
| monomania | mental derangement confined to one idea |
| monoplane | an airplane with one wing |
| monopoly | control of any one thing |
| monosyllable | one syllable word |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| monotone | one unvarying tone |
| monarchy | one ruler |
| monastery | place in which a person lives alone under religious vows |
| monk | the inhabitant of the place where they can live under religious vows |
| monotonous | continuing in one unvarying way or tone |
| bicycle | two wheeled vehicle |
| biennial | occurring every two years |
| bifocals | eyeglasses having two kinds of lenses |
| bigamy | second marriage while the first marriage is still in effect |
| bimonthly | every two months |
| binoculars | something used for two eyes |
| biped | an animal with two feet |
| biscuit | something cooked twice |
| bisect | cut into two |
| bivalve | a marine animal with two shells |
| tricycle | a vehicle of three wheels |
| trilateral | having three sides |
| trilingual | made up of, or pertaining to, three languages |
| trilogy | a series of three literary or musical compositions |
| trimonthly | every three months |
| trinity | the union of three persons, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost |
| trio | three people who sing a song |
| triple | consisting of three |
| triplets | three children born simultaneously from the same mother |
| tripod | a three-legged stand, as for a camera |