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KML Barron's
Barron's 800
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| admonish | v. to caution or reprimand |
| affected | adj. pretentious, phony |
| amenable | adj. agreeable; cooperative; suited |
| analogous | adj. comparable |
| anodyne | n. something that calms or soothes pain |
| anomalous | adj. irregular; deviating from the norm |
| apogee | n. the point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited; the highest point |
| apothegm | n. a terse, witty saying |
| antipathy | n. dislike; hostility |
| appellation | n. name |
| apposite | adj. strikingly appropriate or relevant |
| apprise | v. to inform |
| approbation | n. praise; approval |
| ardor | n. great emotion or passion |
| anchorite | n. a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit |
| cenobite | n. a member of a religious order living in a convent or community |
| argot | n. a specialized vocabulary used by a group |
| artless | adj. guileless; natural |
| ascetic | n. one who practices selfdenial |
| asperity | n. severity; harshness; irritability |
| aspersion | n. slander; false rumor |
| assiduous | adj. dilligent; hard-working |
| astringent | adj. harsh; severe |
| atavism | n. the reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence; individual or a part that exhibits ataavism; return of a trait after a period of absence |
| attenuate | n. to weaken |
| avarice | n. greed |
| aver | v. to affirm; declare to be true |
| avocation | n. secondary occupation |
| avuncular | adj. like an uncle, benevolent and tolerant |
| axiomatic | adj. taken for granted |
| bacchanalian | adj. pertaining to riotous or drunken festivity; pertaining to revelry |
| bard | n. poet |
| bawdy | adj. obscene |
| beatify | v. to sanctify; to bless; to ascribe virtue to |
| bedizen | v. to dress in a vulgar, showy manner |
| belie | v. to contradict; misrepresent; give a false impression |
| beneficent | adj. kindly; doing good |
| bifurcate | v. to divide into two parts |
| blandishment | n. flattery |
| brazen | adj. bold; shameless |
| bucolic | adj. characteristic of the countryside; rustic; pastoral |
| burnish | v. to polish |
| cadge | v. to beg; sponge |
| calumny | n. false and malicious accusation; slander |
| canard | n. false, deliberatly misleading story |
| canon | n. an established principle; a basis or standard for judgment; a group of literary works |
| abrogate | v. to abolish by authoritative action; to treat as non existent |
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