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12th vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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