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10/13/09
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Deportment | manner of conducting or bearing oneself; behavior; demeanor |
| Germane | closely related; appropriate to |
| Amnesty | official pardon for past offenses; act of overlooking |
| Tenuous | thin and lacking substance; flimsy |
| Lambent | glowing softly; flickering |
| Tenacious | holding fast, capable of retaining; sticky |
| Enigma | riddle, puzzle, mystery |
| Behest | a command, an order |
| Skulk | to lie in hiding; to slink |
| Jocose | playfully humorous; jesting |
| Laminated | divided into thin layer; formed out of thin layers |
| Sinuous | snakelike; winding |
| Inclement | lacking mildness, severe; harsh |
| Redundant | unnecessary, superfluous; wordy |
| Refute | disprove; prove false |
| Sinecure | office or job that requires no work or responsibility |
| Lassitude | felling of weakness and weariness |
| Belie | misrepresent or show to be false |
| Anomaly | an apparently absurd or self-contradictory situation |
| Shirk | to avoid; to evade duty |