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Arduous Vocab Drill
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accretion | n. growth in size or increase in amount |
| accure | v. to accumulate; grow by additions |
| admonish | v. to caution or reprimand |
| amalgamate | v. to combine into a unified whole |
| apprise | v. to inform |
| apropos | adj. relevant |
| asperity | n. severity; harshness; irritability |
| aspersion | n. slander; false rumor |
| avarice | n. greed |
| beatify | v. to sanctify; to bless |
| blandishment | n. flattery |
| brazen | adj. bold; shameless (-) |
| burnish | v. to polish |
| cacophonous | adj. unpleasant or harsh sounding |
| cadge | v. to beg; sponge |
| calumny | n. false and malicious accusation; slander |
| invidious | adj. likely to provoke ill will; offensive |
| cantankerous | adj. irritable; ill-humored |
| capricious | adj. fickle; likely to change; not constant |
| captious | adj. faultfinding; intended to entrap |
| categorical | adj. absolute; without exception |
| caucus | n. a smaller group within an organization |
| caustic | adj. sarcastically biting; burning |
| churlish | adj. rude; boorish (insensitive) |
| clamor | n. noisy outcry |
| cloister | v. to confine; seclude (shut away from the world) |
| coalesce | v. to cause to become one |
| codify | v. to systematize |
| compendium | n. brief, comprehensive summary |
| complacent | adj. self-satisfied (-) |
| complaisant | adj. overly polite; willing to please; obliging |
| compliant | adj. yielding |
| conciliatory | adj. overcoming distrust |
| condone | v. forgive; to overlook voluntarily |
| conjugal | adj. pertaining(concern) to marriage agreement |
| contend | v. to assert |
| contiguous | adj. neighboring; touching; connecting |
| continence | n. self-control; abstention from sexual activity |
| contumacious | adj. disobedient; rebellious |
| convivial | adj. sociable |
| craven | adj. cowardly |
| credence | n. acceptance or something as true |
| pathological | adj. aberrant; departing from normal condition (mental / health) |
| defunct | adj. no longer existing |
| delineate | v. to represent or depict |
| demotic | adj. pertaining to people |
| denigrate | v. to slur someone's reputation |
| denizen | n. inhabitant; a regular visitor |
| desultory | adj. random; disconnected; rambling |
| deterrent | n. something that discourages or hinders |
| dirge | n. funeral hymn (song) |
| discretion | n. quality of showing self-restraint in speech or actions; circumspection; freedom to act on one's own |
| disingeneous | adj. crafty |
| disinterested | adj. unprejudiced (non-biased); objective (based on observation) |
| dissident | n. person who disagrees about beliefs, etc. |
| distrait | adj. inattentive; preoccupied |
| divulge | v. to make known something that is secret |
| dormant | adj. inactive |
| ebullient | adj. joyously unrestraint; enthusiastic; exhilarated |
| effete | adj. exhausted; spoiled; depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent; pathetic |
| effrontery | n. audacious; chameless boldness; presumptuousness |
| elicit | v. to provoke; draw out |
| encomium | n. a formal expression of praise |
| esoteric | adj. hard to understand; known only to a few |
| etiology | n. causes or origins |
| etymology | n. origin and history of a word |
| eulogy | n. high praise, especially of a person who has recently died |
| euphemism | n. use of agreeable/inoffencive lang. in place of unpleasant/offensive lang. |
| evince | v. to be an indication of; to show plainly |
| exacerbate | v. to make worse; aggravate |
| execrable | adj. detestable; abhorrent |
| exhort | v. to urge by strong appeal |
| expatiate | v. to speak or write at length |
| expiate | v. to atone for |
| explicate | v. to explain; interpret; clarify |
| expository | adj. explanatory |
| extant | adj. in existence; not lost |
| extrinsic | adj. not inherent or essential |
| fallow | adj. uncultivated |
| fatuous | adj. foolishly self-satisfied |
| fawning | adj. seeking favor by flattering |
| felicitous | adj. suitably expressed; appropriate; well-chosen |
| flout | v. to treat scornfully (disrespectfully) |
| founder | v. to sink; fail; collapse |
| froward | adj. stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient |
| fulminate | v. to attack loudy; denouce |
| gambol | v. to frolic; leap playfully |
| gauche | adj. coarse and uncouth; clumsy |
| glib | adj. fluent in an insincere way; offhand |
| grouse | v. to complain |
| gullible | adj. easily decieved |
| harrowing | adj. terrifying; extremely distressing |
| imbroglio | n. complicated situation; an entanglement |
| impassive | adj. showing no emotion |
| impecunious | adj. poor; having no money; ~indigence |
| implacable | adj. inflexible; incapable of being pleased |
| impute | v. to assign as a characteristic; relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault to |
| inadvertently | adv. Carelessly; unintentionally |
| inchoate | adj. imperfectly formed or formulated |
| incongruity | n. state of not fitting |
| indigence | n. poverty; ~impecunious |
| insensible | adj. unresponsive; unconscious |
| insinuate | v. to imply; suggest; say indirectly |
| insouciant | adj. indifferent; lacking concern or care |
| intransigence | n. stubborness; refusal to compromise |
| inveigh | v. to protest vehemently (strongly); disapprove |
| inveigle | v. to win over by flattery or coaxing |
| labile | adj. likely to change |
| latent | adj. present but hidden; potential |
| limpid | adj. clear; transparent |
| litany | n. lengthy recitation; repetitive chant |
| loquacious | adj. talkative |
| Machiavellian | adj. crafty; double-dealing |
| menagerie | n. a variety of animals kept together |
| mendacious | adj. dishonest |
| meretricious | adj. gaudy; specious; plausible but false |
| metriculous | adj. very careful; fastidious (giving careful attention to detail) |
| mettlesome | adj. full of courage and fortitude (strength of mind); spirited |
| minutia | n. petty details |
| miscreant | n. villain; criminal |
| mitigate | v. alleviate; to cause to become less harsh, severe |
| monolithic | adj. constituting a single, unified whole; solid and uniform |
| multifarious | adj. diverse |
| nostrum | n. medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness; supposed (doubtful) cure |
| nugatory | adj. trifling; invalid |
| obdurate | adj. stubborn |
| obsequious | adj. overly submissive (inclined or willing to submit to wishes of others); not assertive |
| opprobrium | n. disgrace; contempt |
| ostentatious | adj. showy; trying to attract attention; pretentious |
| overweening | adj. arrogant; presumptuous; overbearing |
| paleontology | n. study of fossil remains to learn past geological eras |
| patois | n. jargon (argot; cant); a regional dialect (argot); nonstandard speech |
| peremptory | adj. imperative (unavoidable obligation(sth. to be done)); leaving no choice |
| perfidious | adj. faithless; disloyal; untrustworthy |
| piquant | adj. appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent; attractive |
| pique | n. fleeting feeling of hurting pride |
| placate | v. to lessen another's anger; appease; to pacify; [make s.n opposite to implacable] |
| propensity | n. inclination; tendecy; penchant |
| propitiate | v. to appease; win over |
| recondite | adj. profound; abstruse |
| reproach | v. to find fault with; blame |
| reverent | adj. expressing deep respect; worshipful |
| sartorial | adj. pertaining to tailors |
| scrutinize | v. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification |
| sedition | n. behavior prompting rebellion |
| sedulous | adj. diligent |
| sentient | adj. aware; conscious; able to percieve |
| sobriety | n. seriousness |
| stipulate | v. to specify as an essential condition |
| substantive | adj. essential; substantial; pertaining to the substance |
| succor | n. relief; help in time of distress or want |
| suffrage | n. the right to vote |
| supplicant | n. one who asks humbly (not prideful) and earnestly |
| tenet | n. belief; doctrine |
| travail | n. arduous work; tribulation; anguish |
| travesty | n. parody; caricature |
| venal | adj. bribable; corruptible; mercenary |
| vitiate | v. to impair the quality of; corrupt morally; making inoperative |
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