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12th vocab
Question | Answer |
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REBUT | CONTRADICT |
PRETENTIOUS | POMPOUS OR SELF-IMPORTANT |
AUDACITY | BOLDNESS |
COLLUSION | CONSPIRACY |
CONJECTURE | TO GUESS |
FLOUT | TO DISREGARD CONTEMPTUOUSLY |
SOLVENT | NOT BANKRUPT |
QUALIFY | MODIFY OR RESTRICT |
PRECURSOR | FORERUNNER |
INJUNCTION | COURT ORDER |
PROPRIETARY | CONSTITUTING PROPERTY |
SENTIENT | CONSCIOUS |
SYNTHESIS | COMBINING PARTS |
COERCE | FORCE SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING |
PHILANTHROPY | LOVE OF MANKIND |
VERBOSE | WORDY |
CHOLERIC | HOT-TEMPERED |
CIRCUITOUS | ROUNDABOUT |
AGNOSTIC | SOMEONE UNCONVINCED ABOUT GOD |
BEMUSED | CONFUSED |
BANE | POISON |
PUTATIVE | COMMONLY ACCEPTED |
LAUDABLE | WORTHY OF PRAISE |
REPREHENSIBLE | WORTHY OF BLAME |
ADHERENT | FOLLOWER |
MOLLIFY | SOFTEN |
INDIFFERENT | NOT CARING; MEDIOCRE |
RAMPART | FORTIFICATION |
atrophy | to waste away from lack of use |
subtle | not obvious |
lament | mourn |
civil | polite |
itinerant | moving from place to place |
equanimity | composure |
drone | to talk on and in a dull way |
articulate | speaking clearly and well |
pervade | spread throughout |
broach | open subject |
proliferate | spread rapidly |
denounce | speak out against; condemn |
advocate | speak in favor of; support |
disseminate | spread seeds |
epigraph | apt quotation |
scintillate | sparkle |
averse | opposed to |
accost | approach someone |
vicissitudes | upheaval |
foster | promote growth |
efface | erase |
exculpate | free from guilt |
extol | praise highly |
artful | crafty |
commensurate | proportionate |
platitude | trite remark |
sedition | treason |
mundane | ordinary |
extricate | free from difficulty |
exonerate | free from blame |
epitome | brief summary |
insolent | arrogant |
affable | friendly |
amiable | friendly |
abysmal | wretched |
proscribe | prohibit |
pragmatic | practical |
circumscribe | draw a line around |
utilitarian | pragmatic |
provident | frugal |
novel | original |
innovate | create; introduce something new |
preclude | prevent |
instigate | provoke |
artifice | trickery |
attrition | gradual wearing away |
candor | truthfulness |
castigate | criticize severely |
exhort | urge strongly |
veracity | truthfulness |
perfidy | treachery |
visionary | dreamer |
concise | brief and to the point |
blasphemy | treat as inferior |
patronize | treat as inferior |
insidious | treacherous |
prepossess | preoccupy |
disdain | arrogant scorn |
contentious | argumentative |
refute | prove to be false |
coup | brilliant victory |
protract | prolong |
malinger | pretend to be sick |
irrevocable | irreversible |
rapacious | greedy |
enfranchise | grant voting rights |
decorous | proper |
irascible | irritable |
connoisseur | artistic expert |
profane | irreverent |
succinct | brief and to the point |
patrician | aristocrat |
aesthetic | artistic |
discreet | prudent |
sanctimonious | pretending to be devout |
hiatus | break |
incandescent | brillian |
amity | friendship |
pivotal | crucial |
brevity | briefness |
circumvent | frustrate |
squalor | wretched living conditions |
encroach | trespass |
latent | present by not visible |
laud | praise |
frenetic | frantic |
tout | brag publicly about |
remonstrate | argue against |
dogmatic | arrogantly assertive |
promulgate | proclaim |
eclectic | drawn from many sources |