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E110 Vocab
spignesi test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| jeopardy | danger;peril;vulnerability |
| lexicon | dictionary,book containing words and definitions |
| malaise | a sick feeling; a sense of mental or moral ill being |
| malevolence | malice; hatred toward others; intention to harm |
| manifest | obvious; readily perceived by the senses |
| metamorphosis | change in form; alteration of appearance |
| meticulous | giving great attention to details; mindful of details |
| morose | expressive of gloom; sullen; unsociable |
| munificent | lavishly generous; liberal in giving |
| nuance | subtle distinction or difference; subtle variation |
| ostracism | exclusion; banishment;social exclusion |
| palatable | edible; pleasant tasting; to one's taste |
| paranoia | irrational distrust; feeling of persecution |
| pedagogues | dogmatic teachers |
| pernicious | wicked; deadly; highly injurious or destructive |
| perpetual | everlasting; continuing forever |
| plethora | excess; superfluity; an overabundance |
| precarious | dangerous; unsafe; hazardous |
| presumptuous | audacious; tending to be overly bold |
| proletariat | common people, working class |
| proliferating | multiplying; rapidly increasing in numbers |
| pugnacious | belligerent; combative; obnoxious |
| purge | to cleanse; to purify; to free from impurities |
| rapport | harmony; relation marked by accord |
| recalcitrant | resistant; defiant of authority |
| reflective | thoughtful; pensive; contemplative |
| relegated | assigned; classified; banished |
| replete | complete; full; abundantly filled |
| salutary | curative; promoting good health |
| sanctuary | a refuge; a place for worship |
| secular | worldly; not sacred or religious |
| servitude | slavery; punishment for a crime; subjection |
| skepticism | doubt; uncertainty in belief or knowledge |
| spellbind | fascinate; enchant; to hold one's attention by a spell |
| spiel | an extravagant talk,an oration |
| squalid | sordid; dirty; marked by filthiness |
| symbiosis | mutuality; beneficial union or association |
| syntax | word order; arrangement of parts of sentences |
| tandem | twosome; an arrangement by two |
| tenuous | insubstantial; flimsy; weak |
| tepid | lukewarm; lacking definite warmth; moderate warmth |
| tutelage | instruction; a guiding influence |
| ultimate | final; farthest; most remote in space or time |
| unimpeachable | irreproachable; not liable to accusation; above reproach |
| vehement | forcibly expressed; impassioned; fervid |
| vestige | remnant; that which is left |
| viable | practical; able to live or to be implemented |
| vindictive | revengeful; spiteful; wanting to hurt or harm |
| vivifying | enlivening; quickening; renewing of life |
| voracious | gluttonous; extremely greedy; insatiable |
| accentuate | emphasize; to accent something |
| acquiesce | assent; to accept passively or reluctantly |
| aesthetic | artistic; relating to or dealing with beauty; appealing to the eye |
| affluence | profusion; overflowing of wealth etc; an abundance |
| ambivalence | uncertainty in attitude; fluctuation |
| ameliorate | improve; to make better or more tolerable |
| anathema | a curse; a vigorous denunciation |
| ancillary | subsidiary; auxiliary; subordinate |
| aphorism | proverb; a terse formulation of a truth |
| astute | clever; shrewd; intellectually observant |
| austerity | extreme economy; an ascetic practice |
| benign | gentle; showing kindness of disposition |
| calibrate | to determine; to measure; to standardize |
| capitulation | surrender; giving up resistance |
| catharsis | purification; purgation; cleansing of emotions |
| clandestine | secretive; held or conducted secretly |
| cogent | convincing; valid; forcibly appealing to the mind |
| congruent | equal; harmonious; agreeable; in tangent |
| converge | meet; to move toward one another |
| debacle | great disaster; fiasco; a tumultuous breakup |
| decadence | deterioration; a period of decline |
| delusion | a deception; a false idea or opinion |
| delusive | deceptive; likely to deceive or trick |
| denigrate | defame; belittle; criticize unkindly |
| desiccate | dry up; dehydrate; to drain vitally |
| despotic | tyrannical; dictatorial |
| disparate | different; markedly distinct in some way |
| drone | parasite; one who lives from the effects/ good will of others |
| dubious | doubtful; uncertain in belief or knowledge |
| eccentric | odd; strange; deviating from the pattern |
| effete | decadent; effeminate; marked by weakness |
| elude | evade; cleverly avoid |
| ephemeral | fleeting; transient; lasting only a short time |
| eradicate | exterminate; do away with completely |
| essences | prime characteristics; basic qualities |
| exigencies | urgent needs; emergencies |
| expatriate | banished person; one driven into exile |
| extricate | to free; remove from entanglement |
| fatuous | foolish; silly; simpleminded; not intellectual |
| felicity | great happiness; state of being happy |
| fruition | accomplishment; realization |
| generic | general; common; characteristic of a whole group |
| gingerly | cautiously; carefully; proceeding with caution |
| histrionic | dramatic; theatrical; relating to the theater |
| impermeable | impervious; not permitting passage |
| implicit | understood without explanation; tacitly understood; implied |
| insatiable | quenchless; incapable of being satisfied |
| inscrutable | obscure; not capable of being understood |
| invidious | hostile; offensive; rousing ill will |
| dissipate | scatter; vanish; to waste as in money |
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