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Junior English Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| capricious | impulsive, unpredictable |
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or writing |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| fortuitous | happening by a lucky chance |
| garner | to gather |
| Indigent | IMPOVERISHED |
| Precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| Pariah | one that is despised or rejected |
| Prudent | marked by wisdom or judiciousness |
| Recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| Relegate | to assign to an appropriate place or situation on the basis of classification or appraisal |
| Expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of |
| Ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| Analogous | showing an analogy or a likeness that permits one to draw an analogy |
| Buffoon | a ludicrous figure |
| Carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| Clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy |
| Delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |
| Egregious | CONSPICUOUS ; especially : conspicuously bad |
| Embroil | to involve in conflict or difficulties |
| Gratuitous | given unearned or without recompense |
| Lampoon | a harsh satire usually directed against an individual |
| Magnanimous | showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit |
| Onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden |
| Stringent | marked by rigor, strictness, or severity especially with regard to rule or standard |
| Verbose | containing more words than necessary |
| Whet | to make keen or more acute |
| Animosity | ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility |
| Cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| Conflagration | a large disastrous fire, or a conflict |
| Copious | plentiful in number |
| Elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| Fledgling | one that is new |
| Hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| Iconoclast | a person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration |
| Intemperate | given to excessive use of intoxicating liquors |
| Lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility |
| Officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed |
| Parsimonious | frugal to the point of stinginess |
| Philistine | a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic value |
| Ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| Scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| Bevy | a large group or collection |
| Chichi | frilly or elaborate ornamentation |
| Firmament | the vault or arch of the sky |
| Haggard | wild in appearance |
| Insinuate | to introduce (as an idea) gradually or in a subtle, indirect, or covert way |
| Lugubrious | MOURNFUL ; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful |
| Overwrought | extremely excited |
| Peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| Reverie | the condition of being lost in thought |
| Sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous |
| Sieve | a device with meshes or perforations through which finer particles of a mixture (as of ashes, flour, or sand) of various sizes may be passed to separate them from coarser ones |
| Stultify | to cause to appear or be stupid, foolish, or absurdly illogical |
| Suppurate | to form or discharge pus |
| Taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| Verdant | green in tint or color |
| Beatific | having a blissful appearance |
| Cohort | companion |
| Discomfiture | a state of perplexity and embarrassment |
| Dross | waste or foreign matter |
| Fractious | tending to be troublesome |
| Imprecations | curses |
| Ken | purview |
| Laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words |
| Pedantic | narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned |
| Recapitulation | a concise summary |
| Sallies | an action of rushing or bursting forth |
| Sere | being dried and withered |
| Unperturbed | not disturbed |
| Vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| Voluble | easily rolling or turning |
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