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Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Advocate | To argue or plead for |
Beleaguered | Troubled with many problems |
Benefaction | Gift or assistance |
Botanical | Relating to plants |
Chaotically | Disorderly |
Clime | Climate Area |
Compulsion | Forced Obligation |
Consensus | An agreement |
Defiantly | Loudly, rebelliously |
Denizen | A Resident |
Discrete | Made up of separate things |
Discriminate | To separate into categories |
Dissenters | One who disagrees |
Diverse | Made up of different people or things |
Dogma | Principles or beliefs that an authority insists are true |
Domain | Sphere of activity |
Enhance | To make better |
Enunciate | Pronounce clearly |
Ephemeral | Short lived plants |
Evolve | To change or develop |
Explicit | Clearly stated |
Faciliate | Make something easier |
Fluent | Expressing oneself easily |
Implicit | Understood, not expressed |
Incendiary | Flammable |
Infer | Deduce from evidence |
Orthodoxy | Traditionally accepted customs |
Perfunctory | Done without enthusiasm |
Petulantly | In a grouchy way |
Plaintively | Sadly or wistfully |
Poignant | Emotionally moving or stimulating |
Pollinate | To fertilize |
Precipitous | Sudden and rapid |
Profusely | Plentifully |
Prognosticate | Forecast or predict |
Propagate | Reproduce |
Proximity | Nearness |
Rational | Based on logic |
Reaffirmation | Re- verifying |
Reallocate | Distribute |
Resilience | Ability to return back to normal |
Sanctity | Sadness or ultimate importance |
Sate | Feed and satisfy appetite |
Scope | The size of the activity that's involved |
Subordinate | Person with a lesser rank |
Subtleties | Fine details or nuances |
Turbulence | Violent movement |
Vermin | Annoying creatures |
Wizened | Shrunken and wrinkled |