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Vocabulary 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acrimonious | Stinging or bitter in nature, behavior, or speech, caustic |
| Ameliorate | To make better, to relieve, to improve |
| Amenable | Open or willing to follow advice or suggestion |
| Amorphous | Shapeless, having no definite form |
| Buoyant | Capable of floating; cheerful |
| Cajole | To persuade with deliberate flattery, to coax |
| Calamity | A serious causing distress or misfortune |
| Debase | To reduce in dignity or quality |
| Efface | To erase, to wear away |
| Elucidate | To make clear, to explain |
| Ephemeral | Lasting a short period of time, fleeting |
| Ferocity | Savagery |
| Flourish | To thrive, to grow well |
| Haughty | Arrogant, high-handed, insolent, with much pride |
| Impervious | Incapable of being entered or penetrated, not capable of being damaged |
| Inane | Lacking significance, meaning, or point; silly |
| Indolence | Laziness |
| Infallible | Incapable of error |
| Inscrutable | Difficult to understand, mysterious |
| Languid | Slow, sluggish, listless, weak |
| Malice | Desire to harm others |
| Oblique | Slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading |
| Opulence | Wealth, affluence, abundance |
| Penitent | Showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant |
| Perfunctory | Acting routinely with little interest or care |