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vocab list english
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ideology | system of social or political beliefs |
| arcane | mysterious |
| articulate | able to speak |
| caustic | like acid |
| debilitate | to weaken |
| flaunt | to show off |
| inert | inactive |
| perturb | to disturb greatly |
| surrogate | subsitute |
| synthesis | the combining of parts to form a whole |
| laud | to praise |
| litigate | to try in court |
| manifesto | a public declaration |
| integral | essential |
| genteel | polite |
| futile | incapable of succeeding |
| abhor | to hate very much |
| affinity | sympathy |
| feral | untamed |
| hypothetical | uncertain |
| castigate | to inflict severe punishment on |
| chronicle | a record of events in order of time |
| consign | to give over to the care of another |
| consonant | harmonious |
| pauper | a person who lives on charity |
| pedestrian | unimaginative; banal |
| scrupulous | strict |
| unwitting | unintentional |
| viscous | having a sticky fluid consistency |
| guile | treacherous cunning |
| imprudent | without thought of the consequence |
| inane | silly, senseless |
| founder | to fail, to collapse |
| fraternal | like brothers |
| haughty | showing great pride in oneself |
| stoic | indifferent to pleasure or pain |
| tacit | making no sound; unspoken |
| wrought | formed or fashioned |
| agnostic | one who believes that the existence of god can be proven or disproven |
| construe | to interpret |