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Manhattans prep
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lackluster | : lacking in sheen, brilliance, or vitality : dull, mediocre The actor gave a lackluster performance. lackluster noun |
| Ascendant | Position of dominate power or importance |
| Unflagging | Tireless, unrelenting |
| Sate | Glut, appease by indulgence to the full |
| Inveigling | Enticing |
| Speculating | Mediate or ponder on a subject, assume to be true |
| Needling | Tease, torment |
| Vassals | A person under protection, subservient |
| Mulishness | Unreasonable and inflexible obstinate |
| Mien | Expressive attitude or personality or appearance |
| Prognosis | Forecast, augury |
| Penitent | Remorseful |
| Fretful | Irritable |
| Looming | Taking shape of impending occurrence |
| Fascistic | Autocratic control |
| Libelous | Defamatory, slanderous |
| Recriminations | A retaliatory accusation |
| Bombast | Pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| Truculent | Aggressive and self assertive |
| Odious | Deserving hatred, repugnance |
| Toadies | Sycophants |
| Malfeasance | Wrong doing especially public officials |
| Ramifications | Branch, consequences |
| Iridescent | A lustrous or attractive quality |
| Drab | Prostitute |
| Fortitude | Strength of the mind that urge on |
| Consternation | Amazements or dismay that hinders or throw into confusion |
| Disportment | Display, amuse, divert |
| Vocation | Strong inclination to a particular state of action |
| Avocation | Subordinate occupation |
| Wheedling | To influence or entice by soft word |
| Freewheeling | Free or loose in form or manner |
| Verdant | Green, tyro |
| Supine | Morally or mentally slack |
| Unremitting | Incessant |
| Frisson | A brief moment of emotional excitement |
| Panegyrics | Accolades |
| Marring | Destroy |
| Precipitating | Unwise speed |
| Diluting | Attenuate |
| Ennui | Boredom |
| Virtuoso | Savant, expert |
| Inane | Void |
| Inept | Unfit, foolish |
| Credulity | Gullibility |
| Beset | Trouble |
| Culling | Reject, discard |
| Sage | Discerning |
| Doggerel | Triviality, inferiority |
| Repartee | A quick witty reply |
| Subterfuge | 1 : deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade 2 : a deceptive device or stratagem |
| Surreptitious | Furtive, covet, clandestine, stealth |
| Subliminal | Inadequate to produce perception |
| Supercilious | Cooling and patronizing haughty |
| Meretricious | Pretentious, prostitution |
| Assiduous | Sedulous |
| Idiosyncrasy | Harmless personal oddness |
| Catharsis | Purgation, spiritual renewal |
| Peccadilloes | Slight offense |
| Waggish | Mischievous merriment |
| Risqué | Verging indecency |
| Impugn | Attack as false |
| Temerity | Foolhardy |
| Runic | Mysterious |
| Malaise | Vague sense of mental or moral ill-being |
| Natty | Smart, neat and tidy |
| Georgic | Poem relating to agriculture |
| Risible | Laughable |
| Convalescence | Recover health and strength gradually after sickness |
| Bathos | Sentimental |
| Costiveness | Not generous; slow in action |
| Allegories | Emblem |
| Obscure | Mysterious, dark |
| Proximate | Imminent |
| Flagitious | Scandalous crime |
| Condign | Deserve, appropriate |
| Animadversion | Adverse criticism |
| Gauntlet | An open challenge |
| Sordid | Baseless or grossness |
| Fungible | Capable of mutual substitution; interchange |
| Neophyte | Tyro |
| Cognoscenti | Connoisseur |
| Distend | Extend or swell |
| Traduce | Slander, malicious lies |
| Turgid | Bombastic, pompous, swell |
| Ordinal | Order in ranks |
| Pious | Devoted, virtuous, reverence, not profane |
| Lackey | Servant ; toady |
| Myrmidon | A loyal follower |
| Standoffish | Somewhat cold and reserve |
| Glacial | Extremely cold , frigid |
| Baleful | Deadly or pernicious in effect |
| Baneful | Seriously harmful |
| Abashed | Destroy the self-confidence |
| Abrogate | Abolish by authoritative action, annul |
| Slake | Assuage |
| Epigram | A terse, witty saying, paradoxical |
| Protract | To prolong in time |
| Toothsome | Agreeable, sexually attractive, delicious |
| Peremptory | insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way. "‘Just do it!’ came the peremptory reply" Not open to appeal or challenge |
| Imperious | Arrogant and domineering |
| Emend | Correct usually by textual alterations |
| Tenuousness | Thin, having little substance or strength |
| Lax | Loose, not stringent |
| Epaulet | Something that ornaments or protect the shoulder |
| Haggard | Wild in appearance, emaciated |
| Ethereal | Immaterial, intangible, heavenly |
| Effulgent | Radiance splendor |
| Sidereal | Relating to stars |
| Woebegone | Strongly affected with woe |
| Sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent sumptuous banquets a sumptuous residence; also : magnificent |
| Nugatory | 1 : of little or no consequence : trifling, inconsequential comments too nugatory to merit attention 2 : having no force : inoperative The law was unenforced and thus rendered nugatory. |
| Reconnoiter | Reconnaissance a preliminary survey to gain information; especially : an exploratory military survey of enemy territory |
| Sidle | to go or move with one side foremost especially in a furtive advance transitive verb : to cause to move or turn sideways sidle noun |
| Traipse | Go on foot |
| Bop | Hit |
| Consternation | a strong feeling of surprise or sudden disappointment that causes confusion |
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