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Simult interp quiz3
Vocabulary for simultaneous interp quiz #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pied | Variegated, multicolored |
| Pinion, to | To restrain |
| Pithy | Concise; full of substance, meaty |
| Plaintive | Mournful |
| Plebian | Common |
| Plutocracy | Government by the wealthy |
| Poignant | Keen, piercing, severe |
| Politic | Expedient, prudent, well-devised, sagacious, shrewd |
| Polity | Form of government of nation or state |
| Poltroon | Coward |
| Ponderous | Weighty, unwieldy |
| Prate, to | To speak foolishly, to boast idly |
| Precept | Practical rule guiding conduct |
| Preceptive | Instructive |
| Preciosity | Overrefinement in art or speech |
| Precipitate, to | To hasten |
| Preternatural | Supernatural |
| Prevaricate, to | To lie |
| Primogeniture | Seniority by birth |
| Probity | Uprightness, incorruptibility |
| Prodigal | Wasteful, reckless (squandering) |
| Prodigious | Enormous, marvelous; portentous |
| Profligate | Wasteful, licentious, immoral |
| Prolix | Verbose, drawn out |
| Propagate, to | To spread, to reproduce (plants, animals) |
| Prophylactic | Used to prevent disease |
| Propitious | Favorable, kindly |
| Propititate, to | To appease |
| Prosaic | Common place, dull |
| Proselyte | Convert |
| Prosody | The art of versification |
| Provenance | Origin or source of something |
| Provident | Displaying foresight; thrifty |
| Pugnacious | Combative |
| Pulchritude | Beauty, comeliness |
| Pundit | Learned person; authority on a subject |
| Purblind | Dim-sighted; obtuse |
| Purloin, to | To steal |
| Pusillanimous | Cowardly |
| Putative | Supposed; reputed |
| Quaff, to | To drink with relish |
| Quail, to | To cower; to lose heart |
| Quadaversal | Directed from a common center toward all points of the compass (in geology); turning or dipping in all directions |
| Querulent | Given to unfounded suspicions |
| Querulous | Peevish; picky; fretful |
| Rake | Libertine, dissolute |
| Rakish | Stylish, sporty |
| Rampant | Defensive mound of earth |
| Rapacious | Ravening, seeking prey; covetous, grasping |
| Rapprochement | Reconciliation |
| Rebus | Pictures symbolizing words |
| Recondite | Abstruse, profound, secret, hidden |
| Recreant | Coward; betrayer of faith |
| Recrimination | Countercharge |
| Recusant | Person who refuses to comply |
| Redolent | Fragrant, odorous |
| Redoubtable | Formidable, causing fear |
| Refractory | Stubborn, unmanageable |
| Regale, to | To entertain |
| Remonstrate, to | To protest |
| Rend, to | To split, to tear apart |
| Repartee | Clever reply |
| Repine, to | To fret, to complain |
| Reprobate | Person hardened in sin, scoundrel; corrupt; rejected as impure |
| Requite, to | To repay, to revenge |
| Restive | Unmanageable, restless |
| Reticent | Reserved, uncommunicative |
| Reticulated | Covered by network |
| Retinue | Following, attendants |
| Retrograde, to | To go backwards; to degenerate |
| Rhapsodize, to | To speak or write about something in an exxageratedly enthusiastic vein |
| Rhetoric | Art of effective communication; insincere language |
| Ribald | Wanton, profane |
| Rife | Abundant; current |
| Roil, to | To make liquids murky by stirring up sediments |
| Rubicund | Reddish color, ruddy, florid |
| Rusticate, to | To banish to the country; to dwell in the country |
| Salacious | Lascivious, lustful |
| Sallow | Yellowish, sickly in color |
| Salutary | Healthy, beneficial |
| Sanguinary | Bloody |
| Sanguine | Blood-red; cheerful |
| Sartorial | Pertaining to tailors |
| Saturnine | Gloomy, morose |
| Savant | Scholar |
| Savoir faire | Tact, poise, sophistication |
| Scion | Offspring |
| Scullion | Menial kitchen worker |
| Scurrilous | Obsene, indecent |
| Sedition | Resistance to authority |
| Sedulous | Diligent, assiduous |
| Seminal | Germinal, influencing future, related to seed or semen |
| Senescence | Aging |
| Sequester, to | To set off or apart; to confiscate; to seclude (when reflexive: i.e. oneself) |
| Serendipity | Aptitude for making desireable discoveries by accident |
| Shambles | Slaughterhouse, scene of carnage |
| Shunt, to | To divert, to sidetrack, turn aside |
| Sideral (sidereal) | Relating to the stars |
| Sinecure | Position without responsibility |
| Sinous | Winding, bending in and out |
| Skulduggery | Dishonest behavior |
| Slake, to | To quench, to satisfy, to sate |
| Sleazy | Flimsy, unsubstantial |
| Sobriquet | Nickname |
| Sojourn | Temporary visit |
| Solecism | Flagrantly incorrect grammatical construction |
| Solicitous | Worried, concern |
| Soliloquy | Talking to oneself |
| Sophist | Teacher of philosophy; one using specious reasoning |
| Sophistication | Artificiality, unnaturalness; using sophistry; when one is knowledgeable or worldly-wise |
| Sophistry | Seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning |
| Spate | Sudden flood |
| Specious | Seemingly reasonable but incorrect |
| Spectral | Ghostly |
| Splenetic | Spiteful, irritable, peevish |
| Spurious | False, counterfeit |
| Squalid | Dirty, neglected, poor |
| Staunch, to | To check flow of blood |
| Stentorian | Extremely loud |
| Stoic | Person who is indifferent to pain or pleasure |
| Stolidity | Dullness; impassiveness |
| Stricture | Critical comments |
| Strut | Supporting bar |
| Stygian | Gloomy; hellish; deathly |
| Subaltern | Subordinate |
| Succor | Relief, aid, assistance |
| Suffuse, to | To spread over |
| Sully, to | To tarnish, to soil |
| Sumptuary | Something that limits or regulates expenditure |
| Sunder, to | To separate, to part |
| Supercilious | Contemptuous, haughty |
| Supernal | Heavenly, celestial |
| Suppurate, to | To create pus |
| Surcease | Cessation |
| Surfeit, to | To cloy, to overfeed |
| Surrepticious | Secret, clandestine, stealthy |
| Sybarite | Lover of luxury |
| Sycophant | Servile flatterer |
| Sylvan | Pertaining to the woods, rustic |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech by which the whole of a thing is put for the part, or the part for the whole (bread for a food, sails for ships) |
| Taciturn | Habitually silent, talking little |
| Taper | Candle |
| Tarn | Small mountain lake |
| Tautological | Redundant |
| Tawny | Dull yellow, tan |
| Temporize, to | To stall (gain time) |
| Tendentious | Having an aim (as in advancing a point of view or a doctrine) |
| Tenet | Doctrine, dogma |
| Tensile | Capable of being stretched |
| Tergiversation | Evasion, fickleness |
| Terse | Concise, abrupt, pithy |
| Tesselated | Inlaid with differently colored materials in small squares (as in a mosaic) |
| Thaumaturgist | Miracle worker, magician |
| Theocracy | Government by religious leaders |
| Thespian | Pertaining to drama, to the stage |
| Thrall | Slave, bondage |
| Timbre | Quality of musical tone |
| Toady, to | To kiss up to someone |
| Tocsin | Alarm bell |
| Torpor | Lethargy |
| Touchstone | Stone used to test the fineness of gold alloys |
| Tractable | Docile |
| Traduce, to | To expose to slander (malign) |
| Travail | Painful labor |
| Trenchant | Cutting, keen |
| Trencherman | Good eater |
| Trite | Hackneyed, commonplace |
| Troglodyte | Cave dweller |
| Trope | Figure of speech |
| Troth | Pledge of good faith |
| Truculence | Aggressiveness, ferocity |
| Tryst | Meeting |
| Tumid | Swollen; pompous, bombastic |
| Turgid | Swollen, distended |
| Tyro (tiro) | Beginner, novice |
| Ubiquitous | Omnipresent |
| Umbrage | Anger, resentment |
| Uncanny | Strange, mysterious |
| Unctuous | Oily, bland, insincerely suave |
| Unfledged | Immature |
| Unobtrusive | Inconspicuous, not blatant |
| Unsullied | Untarnished |
| Upbraid, to | To schold, to reproach |
| Urbane | Suave, refined, elegant |
| Vacuous | Empty, inane |
| Vagary | Caprice, whim |
| Vainglorious | Boastful |
| Valedictory | Pertaining to farewell |
| Valedutinarian | Sickly, in poor health (or believing one is so) |
| Vapid | Insipid, inane |
| Variegated | Many colored, multicolored, polychrom |
| Vaunted | Boasted, bragged, highly publicized, hyped |
| Venal | Capapble of being bribed |
| Venial | Forgivable, trivial (mitigated) |
| Ventral | Abdominal |
| Verdigris | Green colored; oxidation on copper |
| Verisimilitude | Appearance of truth |
| Vernal | Pertaining to Spring |
| Vertiginous | Giddy, causing dizziness |
| Verve | Enthusiasm, liveliness |
| Viand | Food, victuals |
| Vicarious | Acting as a substitute (a vicarious thrill is to imagine yourself in the place of someone else) |
| Vicissitudes | Changes of fortune, ups and downs of life |
| Victuals | Food |
| Vignette | Picture; short literary sketch |
| Virulent | Extremely poisonous |
| Viscid | Sticky, adhesive |
| Vitiate, to | To make faulty, ineffective, inoperative; to corrupt |
| Vitriolic | Corrosive, sarcastic |
| Vituperative | Abusing, scolding |
| Vixen | Female fox; ill-tempered woman |
| Voluble | Fluent, glib |
| Vouchsafe, to | To guarantee |
| Vulpine | Like a fox, crafty |
| Waggish | Mischievous, tricky |
| Wan | Pallid |
| Warren | Rabbit tunnel |
| Wastrel | Squanderer, profligate |
| Welter | Turmoil |
| To Welter | To Wallow; to roll over |
| Whelp | Pup, cub (lion) |
| Winnow, to | To sift, to separate good parts from bad |
| Winsome | Agreeable, gracious, engaging |
| Wizened | Withered, shriveled |
| Wont | Custom, habitual procedure |
| Aborchonado | Sonrojado, ruborizado; avergonzado(Flushed, mortified, ashamed) |
| Acatar | Tributar homenaje de sumision y respeto; obedecer, cumplir con; notar(To revere; to obey, observe respect, comply with (rules, laws); to notice |
| Acerrimo | Muy fuerte, vigoroso o tenaz (All out, fanatic) |
| Acequia | Zanja; arroyo(Ditch;stream) |
| Aciago | Desgraciado; de mal aguero(Unfortunate; ominous, fateful) |
| Acometer | Embestir; emprender, intentar; venir (enfermedad, sueno); desembocar (canerias)(To attack; to overtake, to overcome (illness, sleep); to converge,join (galleries in mines, pipes) |
| Acular | Arrinconar, acorralar(To corner (someone)) |
| Acunar | Imprimir y sellar las monedas; inventar (palabras, expresiones)(To coin) |
| Adusto | Austero; rigido, muy calido(Austere; severe, stern; sweltering) |
| Agostar | Secar con excesivo calor; arar en agosto(To dry with excessive heat, to parch; to plow in August) |
| Agrimensor | Perito en el arte de medir tierras (Land surveyor) |
| Aguero | Presagio, senal(Augury, omen, presage, sign) |
| Ajar | Maltratar; deslucir(To abuse, to ill treat; to descredit, to tarnish) |
| Aldaba | Llamador que se pone a las puertas; barra con que se aseguran las puertas(Door knocker; latch; bolt) |
| Albedrio | Facultad para obrar por reflexion y eleccion; antojo, capricho(Free will; whim, caprice) |
| Alebrado | Timido; atemorizado(Timid; fearful) |
| Alevosia | Traicion(Perfidy, treachery) |
| Alferez | El qe lleva la bandera(Standard bearer, ensign) |
| Amedrentar | Acobardar(To frighten, to scare) |
| Amenguar | Deshonrar, infamar, baldonar; disminuir, menoscaber(To insult, belittle, damage (reputation); to reduce, lessen) |
| Amilanar | Acobardar; desanimar(To scare; to dishearten |
| Amorfo | Falto de energia, inactivo; sin forma regular(Amorphous, shapeless) |
| Anaquel | Tabla de un armario, alacena(Shelf; cupboard) |
| Anodino | Inocuo(Harmless) |
| Anonadar | Aniquilar; apocar, abatir(To annihilate, to destroy; to crush one's spirit) |
| Anejo | Algo que tiene uno o mas anos(Old, aged; stale (new, etc)) |
| Anil | Color azul(Blue, indigo) |
| Apego | Aficion, inclinacion particular; afeccion y fidelidad(Fondness, affection, attachment) |
| Apear | Amojonar, medir tierras; desmontar (caballo, carruaje)(To survey (land); to dismount) |
| Apero | Conjunto de instrumentos de cualquier oficio; recado de montar del campesino; animales de tiro(Tools, equipment, gear, outfit; farmer's riding gear; draft animals |
| Aplacar | Amanzar, suavizar, mitigar(To placate, calm, soothe, appease) |
| Apogeo | Cenit(Zenith, peak, culmination, apogee, height (of fame,power, etc)) |
| Ardid | Artificio, mana, treta, astucia(Trick, ruse) |
| Arrebatado | Precipitado e impetuoso; muy encendido(rostro)(Impetuous, rash; flushed (face) |
| Arredrar | Atemorizar; apartar, separar(To scare; to remove, to move away) |
| Asepsia | Desinfeccion, esterilizacion; saneamiento(Absence of pathogenic organisms,sterilization) |
| Asertatorio | Afirmativo, que afirma(Affirmative) |
| Aseverar | Afirmar, asegurar(To assert, asseverate, affirm) |
| Atalaya | Torre de observacion; altura desde donde se descubre mucho espacio; observador; espia(Watchtower; lookout, vantage point; observer; spy) |
| Ataviar | Adornar(To adorn) |
| Atezado | De piel tostada y obscurecida por el sol. De color negro(Tawny) |
| Atinado | Acertado(Right, correct (guess, action)) |
| Atiborrar | Llenar de borra muy apretada; dar demasiado de comer(To pack, stuff; to gorge, stuff (with food)) |
| Atisbar | Mirar con cuidado, observar(To watch,observe,examine,scrutinize) |
| Atonito | Asombrado(Astonished, amazed, astounded) |
| Avalar | Garantizar(To guarantee, to vouch for) |
| Baldio | Terreno sin cultivar; vano, inutil(Uncultivated land; wasted; vacant) |
| Basca | Ganas de vomitar; rabia; ansia(Nausea, queasiness (generally used in the plural); rabidness (in a dog); fit, impulse |
| Bastidor | Armazon de madera o metal (de bordadora, de cuadro,etc); lienzo pintado que se pone a los lados del escenario; armazon de coche(Frame, framework, easel; wing, side flat (theater); frame (car) |
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