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Analogy Prac Voc 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| maudlin | overly emotional |
| dispassion | calmness |
| dauntless | brave |
| trepidation | fear |
| peroration | closing or end of a formal address |
| denouement | the ending of a novel |
| lugubrious | sorrow and mourning |
| doleful | sorrow and mourning |
| banal | commonplace or trite |
| insipid | commonplace or trite |
| ethereal | the heavenly or unearthly |
| empyreal | heavenly or unearthlly |
| obsequious | behavior that is excessively fawning, servile, or submissive |
| sycophantic | behavior that is excessively fawning, servile, or submissive |
| prophylactic | something that is used deliberately to pervent; drug used to prevent symptoms |
| stratagem | something that is used deliberately to beguile |
| infinitesimal | very small or bantam |
| aphorism | a pithy (terse and cogent) saying, like "a stitch in time saves nine" |
| adage | a brief, wise saying |
| sagacious | wise |
| tortuous passage | one that is winding twisted or crooked |
| serpentine course | considered to be winding |