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English vocab- final
Losen Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| (v) to repeal, cancel, declare null and void | abrogate |
| (n) a cancellation; the act of rpealing or anulling | abrogation |
| (adj) esoteric, arcane, recondite, occult; extremely difficult to understand | abstruse |
| (n) a careful consideration | advisement |
| (adj) artistic, senstive or responsive to beauty; pertaining to beauty | aesthetic |
| (n) an open or intentional insult; a slight; offense | affront |
| (adj) completely surrounding, encompassing | ambient |
| (n that which is pleasant or agreeable; (pl) attractive features | amenity |
| (n) an opening, gap, hole, orifice | aperture |
| (n) exaggeated self-imprtance, haugty pride | arrogance |
| (adv) with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval | askance |
| (n) roughness, severity; bitterness or tartness | asperity |
| (v) to make thin orslender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value | attenuate |
| (adj) blissful, rendering or making blessed | beatific |
| (n) a creature of enormous size, power, or appearance | behemoth |
| (adj) gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant | benign |
| (v) to make smooth or glossy by rubbing; polish; shine, buff | burnish |
| (n) gloss, brightness, luster | burish |
| (n) a small group working in secret | cabal |
| (adj) harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant | cacophonous |
| (n) a false rumor; a fabricated story | canard |
| (adj) excessively ready to find faulty; given to petty criticism, intended to trap, confuse, or show up; faultfindning, nit-picking, carping | captious |
| (v) to find fault in a petty way, carp | cavil |
| (n) a trivial objection or criticism | cavil |
| (n) one who feigns knowledge or ability; a prenteder, imposter, or quack | charlatan |
| (n) trickery; deceptive practices or tactics, double dealing | chicanery |
| (adj) aware, knowledgeable, informed; having jurisdiction | cognizant |
| (v) to give over to another's care, charge, or control; to entrust, deliver; to set apart for a special use; transfer, remit, convey | consign |
| (adj) regretful for some misded or sin; plaged by a sense of remorse, thoroughly penitent | contrite |
| (n) a highly successful stroke, masterstroke, tour de force, act or plan, or strategem | coup |
| (n) the center of attraction, attention, or interest; something that serves to guide or direct | cynosure |
| (v) to kill or destroy a large part of; ravage, devastate | decimate |
| (adj) well-behaved, dignified, socially proper | decorous |
| (adj) no longer in exstence or functioning, dead | defunct |
| (v) deem, stoop; to condescend | deign |
| (adj) delightful, highly enjoyable; deliciously flavred, savory; sumptuous, scrumptius | delectable |
| (n) an appealing or appetizing food or dish | delectable |
| (v) to express mil disappoval; to belittle; deplore, frown upon | deprecate |
| (n) an act or expression that detracts from reputation, value, power, etc | derogation |
| (adj) thoroughly dried out; divested of spirt or vitality; arid and uninteresting | desiccated |
| (n) debris, wreckage, ruin, rubble | detritus |
| (v) to frustrate, thwart, or defeat; to confuse, perplex, o embarrass | discomfit |
| (n) a difference of opinion; discontent; disagreement | dissidence |
| (adj)overflowing with entusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling; xhilarated, elated, exuberant | ebullient |
| (adj) drawn from different sources; selective, synthetic | eclectic |
| (n) the power to produce a desired result; potency, reliability | efficacy |
| (v) to produce; beget, generate, cause, form | engender |
| (v) to picture oneself; conceive of, especially as a future possibility | envisage |
| (adj) hedonistic, sybaritic;devoted to the pursuit of pleaure | epicurean |
| (v) to take up and support; to become attached to, adopt | espouse |
| (adj) light, airy, delicate; heavenly, celestial, gossamer | ethereal |
| (n) a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsher or unpleasant one; a substitute | euphemism |
| (n) the front or face of a building; a surface appearance; mask, pretense | facade |
| (adj) frenetic, feverish | febrile |
| (n) an object believed to have magical powers; an object of unreasoning devotion or revence; charm, talisman, obsession | fetish |
| (adj) limp, not firm; lacking vigor or ffectiveness; soft, flabby | flaccid |
| (n) a weak point, failing, a minor flaw | foible |
| (v) to d without, abstain from, give up; refrai from, renounce | forgo |
| (adj) full or loaded with; accompanied by | fraught |
| (v) to deny, contradict, controvert; to dispute, propose | gainsay |
| (adj) fiendish, barbarous, monstrous | ghoulish |
| (adj) outgoing, extroverted | gregarious |
| (adj) impending, looming | imminent |
| (adj) hving little or no money; penniless, impoverished, indigent | impecunious |
| (adj) not thrifty; failing to planahead; prodigal, spendthrift | improvident |
| (adj) not in keeping, unsuitable, incompatible; discordant, jarring | incongruous |
| (adj) inflexible, byond influence, unyielding | inexorable |
| (n) wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act | iniquity |
| (adj) intrinsic, congenital | innate |
| (n) an act of formal or systematic questioning | interrogation |
| (n) asking a question; having the form or character of a question; a ord or sentence that asks a question | interrogative |
| (adj) sacred; sacrosanct, unassailable | inviolable |
| (v) to toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure; accustom, acclimate | inure |
| (adj) unwilling, reluctant, disinclined; averse | loath |
| (adj) emitting or reflectig light, glowing; illuminating | luminous |
| (n) plot, scheme, maneuver | machintion |
| (adj) clear, evident to the eyes or mind; apparent | manifest |
| (v) to show plainly, exhibit, evince; reveal, disclose | manifest |
| (v) to expose to public contempt or ridicule | pillory |
| (n) a woefully meager wage or portion; modicum, trifle | pittance |
| (v)augur, portend, foretell | presage |
| (n) descendants, offspring; issue, posterity | progeny |
| (v) announce; to make known publcly | promulgate |
| (v) to discontinue a session of a legislative body; to defer, to postpone | prorogue |
| (n) divine guidance or care; a manifestation of such guidance | providence |
| (adj) providing for future needs or contingencies; thrifty, economical | provident |
| (n) a conditional stipulation | proviso |
| (adj) reputed; supposed, presumed | putative |
| (v) to snub; to repel; to drive away | rebuff |
| (n) a curt rejection, a check | rebuff |
| (v) scout | reconnoiter |
| (n) uprightness, righteousness; correctness; integrity | rectitude |
| (adj) restless, balky, uneasy, fidgety, recalcitrant | restive |
| common, prevalet, widespread; full, abounding; plentiful, replete | rife |
| (n pl) fundamentals, basics | rudiments |
| (v) to set apart; seclude, segregate isolate, closet | sequester |
| (adj) angelic, heavenly, celestial | seraphic |
| (n) a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess | shambles |
| (adj) occurring at irregular intervals; intermittent, sasmodic | sporadic |
| (v) last, survive, sustain | subsist |
| (n) a list of cargo and/or passengers | manifest |
| (v) to hypnotize, entrance, to fascinate, enthrall, bewitch | mesmerize |
| (pl. n) small or trivial details, trifling matters; trivia, trifles | minutiae |
| (n) postponement, stoppage | moratorium |
| (adj) dying, on the way out; obsolescnt | moribund |
| (adj) open to change, fickle, variable | mutable |
| (adj) budding, incipient, embryonic | nascent |
| (n) sorcrer, conjurer | necromancer |
| (n) panacea, elixir | nostrum |
| (n) respect, honor | obeisance |
| (adj) marked b slavish attentiveness; fawning, servile, sycophantic; mealy-mouthed | obsequious |
| (adj) bunt, not coming to a point; slow or dull in understanding; stupid, dumb, thick, mild, dull-witted | obtuse |
| (adj) burdensome; involving hardship or difficulty; oppressive, weighty | onerous |
| (n) infam, dishonor, odium, shame | opprobrium |
| (v) to swing back and forth in a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver | oscillate |
| (n) formal or elaborate praise; a tribute; encomium, testimonial | panegyric |
| (n) outcast, untouchable, persona on grata | pariah |
| (adj) regretful for one's sins or mistakes | penitent |
| (n) one who is sorry for wrong-doing | penitent |
| (adj) determined, resolute; high-handed, unconditional | peremptory |
| (n) a device for publicly punishing offenders | pillory |
| (adj) performed or observed beyond the degree required, demanded, or expected; unnecessary; superfluous | supererogatory |
| (n) a substitute, deputy | surrogate |
| (n) a face, a countenance, appearance, look, aspect | visage |
| (adj) not practical, lacking in realism, idealistic, imprctical | visionary |
| (n) one given to far-fetched ideas; a dreamer or seer | visionary |
| (n) an act of visiting; a severe punishment or affliction | visitation |
| (n) an expansive mental view; a distinct view or prospect through an opening | vista |
| (v) sift, srain, filter, sort | winnow |
| (adj, part) dry, shrunken and wrinkled; withered, shriveled | wizened |
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