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Lores gre
Vocab Words Hit Parade 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide | Abscond |
| Deviating from the norm | Aberrant |
| Eager and enthusiastic willingness | Alacrity |
| Deviation from the normal order form or rule ;abnormality | Anomaly |
| An expression of approval or praise | Approbation |
| Arduous | Strenuous, requiring tons of effort |
| Assuage | To lessen or weaken |
| Audacious | daring and fearless |
| Austere | without adornment; bare |
| Axiomatic | Taken as a given |
| Capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively, unpredictable |
| Censure | To criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
| Chicanery | Trickery |
| Convoluted | Complex or complicated |
| Discordantt | Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
| Disparate | Fundamentally district or dissimilar |
| Effrontery | Extreme boldness |
| Enervate | To weaken; to reduce in vitality |
| Ennui | Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom |
| Erudite | Very learned, scholarly |
| Extemporaneous | improvised |
| Filibuster | intentional obstruction;esp using a prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
| Ingenuous | artless, frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
| Inured | accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
| Irascible | easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
| Laud | to praise highly |
| Lucid | clear, easily understood |
| Magnanimity | the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp in forgiving |
| Martial | associated with war and the armed forces |
| Mundane | of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary |
| Nascent | coming into being |
| Nebulous | vague and cloudy |
| Neologism | a new word, expression or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses |
| Noxious | harmful, injurious |
| Obtuse | lacking sharpness or intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
| Obviate | to anticipate and make unnecessary |
| Onerous | troubling, burdensome |
| Paean | a song or hymn of praise and joy |
| Parody | a humorous imitation |
| Perennial | recurrent through the year or many years |
| Perfidy | intentional breech of faith; treachery |
| Perfuntory | done w/o care or interest |
| Perspicacious | acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
| Prattle | to babble meaninglessly |
| Precipitate1 | acting with excessive haste or impulse |
| Precipitate2 | to harm in anticipation |
| Predilection | a disposition in favor of something; preference |
| Prescience | foreknowledge of events |
| Prevaricate | to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
| Qualms | misgivings, reservations; causes to be hesitant |
| Recant | to retract |
| refute | to disprove |
| Relegate | to forcibly assign, esp to a lower place or position |
| Reticent | Quiet, reserved, reluctant to express feelings and thoughts |
| Solicitous | concerned and attentive; eager |
| Sordid | Characterized by filth, grime or squalor |
| Squander | to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
| Stupefy | to stun or baffle |
| Stymie | to block |
| Synthesis | The combination of parts to make a whole |
| Torque | a force that causes rotation |
| Tortuous | winding, twisting |
| Truculent | fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
| Veracity | truthfulness, honesty |
| Virulent | Extremely harmful or poisonous, hostile or antagonistic |
| Voracious | having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit |
| Waver | to move to and fro; to sway |
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