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Revolution Drill IV
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aloft | adv. At a great height; in flight |
| tedious | adj. boring, dreary, routine; tiresome, wearisome |
| integral | adj. essential; complete; madeup of parts witch form a whole |
| deracinate | v. pull out by the roots; remove sth. from its native environment |
| totality | n. entirety, wholeness, total amount |
| aqueduct | n. manmade canal for carrying water flow |
| lien | n. right to make claim; right to confiscate a piece of property in place of payment for a debt |
| pleading | adj. asking; begging |
| quack | n. fake doctor; impostor; charlatan; trickster; fraudster |
| fringe | n. margin, periphery, edge; ornamental border of hanging treads |
| table | v. hold back to a later time |
| conservatism | n. resistance to change |
| indecisiveness | n. inconclusiveness |
| radicalism | n. belief in extreme political views |
| conviction | n. acknowledgement; condemnation; convincing; act of convicting |
| labored | v. work hard, struggle |
| vociferous | adj. loud, noisy, clamorous |
| snub | v. repulse; reject outright and bluntly; refuse to ackknowledge |
| pan | v. criticize harshly; making sweep movement |
| clinch | n. settle conclusively; hold in a tight grasp; secure or fasten |
| beam | v. express joy |
| larceny | n. robbery, theft (Law) |
| arson | n. deliberate and malicious burning of property |
| anxious | adj. worried; to display solicitude (care); eager |
| smolder | v. burn or smoke without flame; display repressed feelings of anger; continue in a suppressed state |
| blaze | v. flare up, ignite; glow, shine; be publicized |
| populace | n. public; world; people in general considered as a whole |
| gracious | adj. courteous, polite; friendly; merciful; kind, benevolent; pleasant |
| surly | adj. sullen, cross, irritable, ill-tempered |
| imbue | v. inspire, strongly influence; fill with a feeling; cause to absorb a feeling or idea; permeate, infuse, stain |
| pucker | v. become wrinkled |
| consolation | n. comfort, solace; person or thing which brings comfort |
| defy | v. oppose, resist; challenge |
| agog | adj. enthusiastic; excited |
| hush | v. make silent; be silent; make a person be quiet |
| arresting | adj. thrilling, exciting; absorbing, interesting, striking |
| absentmindedness | n. state of being distracted, state of being confused |
| loll | v. sprawl, lean lazily, recline; hang loosely |
| pluck | n. pulling; tuggling; daring; courage |
| grovel | v. prostrate oneself; humiliate oneself; crawl; beg; be servile; |
| perjury | n. act of lying under oath; act of giving false testimony in a court of law |
| crease | v. fold, make a ridge (in paper, fabric, etc.); cause to wrinkle; become wrinkled |
| braiding | n. trimming used for decorating clothes or draperies; braids (collectively) |
| perforating | v. puncture, pierce; make holes, punch holes |
| verve | n. enthusiasm; energy |
| rift | v. burst open, split, cleave |
| shrug | v. raise and lower the shoulders to express indifference or uncertainty |
| foppish | adj. vain, foolish, conceited (arrogant) |
| resilience | n. elasticity, ability to return to the original shape; cheerfulness, quality of quickly recovering from sadness or failure, buoyancy |
| fondness | n. loving affection, fond feeling; penchant, liking (i.e. for drink or sweets) |
| disposition | n. tendency; character, nature, trait; arrangement, placement |
| abide | v. stay; live, dwell; continue, tolerate, put up with; wait; comply |
| unmistakable | adj. clear, obvious, cannot be mistaken, unquestionable |
| cord | n. amount of wood / (anal: ream is amount of paper) |
| objectionable | adj. arousing opposition; causing objection; repulsive; unpleasant |
| grievance | n. complaint; resentment; wrong; injustice |
| redress | n. correction, compensation |
| filter | v. to remove dregs (small particals) |
| winnow | v. to remove the chaff from grain |
| passionate | adj. full of desire; fervent; lack of restraint |
| domesticated | adj. tamed, trained, accustomed to life with mankind |
| sully | v. dirty, soil, tarnish; taint, defile, disgrace |
| transcribe | v. make a written copy, transliterate |
| prompting | n. suggestion |
| marred | v. damage, mutilate, spoil, deface |
| bespeaks | v. reserve in advance; order goods or services; show, bear witness |
| contrived | adj. obviously planned or schemed; labored, artificial |
| ludicrous | adj. ridiculous, comical, absurd, laughable |
| tact | n. diplomacy, avoiding giving offence; ability to skillfully deal with people, finesse; sense of what is proper or appropriate, taste |
| unseemly | adj. unbecoming, improper, indecorous, inappropriate |
| repentant | adj. penitent; regretful or rueful about one's past actions, sorrowful about past occurrences |
| full-bodied | adj. full of flavor; intense |
| full-blown | adj. completely developed, fully mature, in full bloom |
| studied | adj. deliberate, planned; not spontaneous, contrived; learned |
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