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exam study guide j.s
second semester exam.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aberrant | departing from the usual course; exceptional; abnormal |
| accord | to be in agreement; to grant; or a harmonious union of sounds. |
| affable | pleasantly easy to approach and talk to; friendly; warm; polite |
| Affluent | having an abundance of wealth, property, or other materials. flowing freely. |
| allude | to make an indirect referance |
| Ambiguity | doubtfulness or uncertaintly of the meaning; unclear; indefinite. |
| Amorphous | lacking form |
| antipathy | natural aversion; disgust; hatred |
| archaic | marked by charicteristics of an eairlier period. |
| assimilate | persistant to take in and incorporate as one's own. absorb. |
| assidous | continuous; tireless |
| atrophy | wasting away of the bodys tissue |
| belligerent | warlike; giving or waging war |
| besiege | to crowd around; surround |
| cacophony | harsh sound |
| chronic | continuing frequently |
| complacence | a feeling of quiet plesure or security. self satisfaction. |
| confluence | a flowing together of two or more streams. |
| cosmopolitian | beautician |
| credulous | gullible |
| cryptic | mysterious; ambiguous |
| decadence | decay |
| derisive | mocking |
| desecrate | to treat with sacrilage; profane |
| detriment | loss; damage; injury |
| devious | indirect |
| diaphanous | very sheer or light; transparent |
| dichotomy | to cut into two parts |
| disparity | lack of similarity or equality; inequality. |
| dissonance | harsh sound; discord. |
| divulge | to disclose or reveal |
| docile | easily managed or handled |
| dynamic | pertaining to energy |
| eccentric | not having the same center |
| elucidate | to explain |
| elusive | hard to capture |
| empathized | to experiance empathy |
| enumerate | to mention seperatly as if counting |
| enunciate | to state as a theory |
| ephemeral | lasting only a very short time |
| epitomy | a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree that features of a whole class |
| equitable | characterized by fairness |
| equivocal | allowing the possibility of several meanings |
| excruciating | extremely painful; causing suffering |
| expunge | erase or obliterate |
| extenuating | to make less serious |
| fervent | having or showing great warmth |
| forte | a strong point at which one excels |
| gregarious | very talkative |
| homo | same |
| hyperbole | intentional exaggeration |
| idiosyncrasy | a chacracterstic or habbit that is strange |
| ignominious | humiliating |
| impecunious | having little or no money |
| impending | about to happen |
| impediment | henderance |
| impulsion | having the power to effect of impelling |
| incisive | biting or penatrating |
| infallible | not falliable |
| infringe | trespass |
| inquisitive | prying |
| levity | lack of seriousness |
| loquacious | talk constantly |
| magnaimous | forgiving an insult |
| malevolence | hatred |
| malicious | evil |
| neoteric | modern; new; or recent |
| orthodox | pertaining to any doctorine |
| panacea | cure-all. |
| pandemonium | wild uproar, chaos |
| paradox | contradictory statement |
| paragon | a model of excellence |
| pedantic | ostentatious on one's learning |
| peruse | to read through with thorouhness or care |
| philanthropy | an activity preformed with the goal of promoting the well being of a fellow man |
| placate | to pacify or appease |
| placid | calm or peaceful |
| poignant | keenly disstressing to the feelings |
| precarious | uncertaint |
| proliferate | to increasein number or spread rapidly |
| punctilious | strict in actions |
| recapitulate | to review by a brief summary |
| rectification | to act of setting right |
| remonstrate | dissoproval |
| resonance | to echo |
| salience | the state of being conspicious |
| sanguine | hopefull, cheerful |
| satiate | to satisfy to a full state |
| significant | having or expressing a meaning |
| stringent | marked by strictness |
| synchronized | to happen at the same time |
| tenuous | having little strength |
| transgression | violation of law |
| travesty | parody |
| trite | not fresh or original |
| unity | together as one |
| veracity | devotion to the truth |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement outcry |
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