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Resplendent Stack
Mrs.Warrington
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assertion | a declaration or statement |
| Clarity | clearness in thought or expression |
| Cogent | convincing; reasonable |
| Coherent | logically connected |
| Cohesive | condition of sticking together |
| Didactic | intended to instruct |
| Discourse | verbal expression or exchange; conversation |
| Eloquence | the ability to speak vividly or persuasively |
| Emphasize | to give special attention to something; to stress |
| Fluid | easily flowing |
| Implication | the act of suggesting or hinting |
| Lucid | easily understood; clear |
| Pundit | an authority who expresses his/her opinions |
| Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively |
| Arbiter | a judge who decides a disputed issue |
| Biased | prejudiced |
| Exculpate | to free from guilt and blame |
| Impartial | not in favor of one side or another; unbiased |
| Incontrovertible | indisputable; not open to question |
| Integrity | trustworthiness; completeness |
| Jurisprudence | the philosophy or science of law |
| Objectivity | treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices |
| Penitent | expressing remorese for one's misdeeds |
| Plausible | seemingly valid or acceptable; credible |
| Substantiated | supported with proof or evidence; verified |
| Vindicated | freed from blame |
| Condescending | treating people as weak or inferior |
| Contemptuous | feeling hatred; scornful |
| Despotic | exercising absolute power; tyrannical |
| Dictatorial | domineering; oppressively overbearing |
| Disdain | contempt; scorn |
| Haughty | arrogant; vainly proud |
| Imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing |
| Patronizing | treating in a condescending manner |
| Convoluted | intricate; complex |
| Cryptic | difficult to comprehend |
| Futile | having no useful purpose; pointless |
| Impede | to slow progress of |
| Obscure | (adj)relatively unknown(verb) to conceal or make indistinct |
| Quandary | a state of uncertainty or perplexity |
| Dilatory | habitually late |
| Indolent | lazy |
| Insipid | uninteresting; unchallenging |
| Listless | lacking energy |
| Torpor | laziness; inactivity; dullness |
| Alienated | removed or disassociated from friends, family, or homeland |
| Alliance | a union of two or more groups |
| Disparity | inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference |
| Servile | submissive; like a servant |
| Suppressed | subdued; kept from being circulated |
| Embellish | to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate |
| Florid | describing flowery or elaborate speech |
| Opulent | exhibiting a display of great wealth |
| Ornate | elaborately decorated |
| Ostentatious | describing a showy or pretentious display |
| Poignant | profoundly moving; touching |
| Ebullience | intense enthusiasm |
| Effusive | emotionally unrestrained; gushy |
| Egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive |
| Flagrant | extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable |
| Frenetic | wildly excited or active |
| Gratuitous | given freely; unearned; unwarranted |
| Superfluous | extra; unnecessary |
| Alleviate | to ease a pain or burden |
| Asylum | a place of retreat or security |
| Auspicious | favorable; promising |
| Benevolent | well-meaning; generous |
| Benign | kind and gentle |
| Emollient | something that softens or soothes |
| Mollify | to calm or soothe |
| Reclamation | the act of making something useful again |
| Sanction | to give official authorization of approval |
| Dubious | doubtful; of unlikely authenticity |
| Fabricated | made; concocted in order to deceive |
| Hypocrisy | the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity |
| Slander | false charges and malicious statement about someone |
| Spurious | not genuine; false; counterfeit |
| Astute | shrewd; clever |
| Camouflage | to hide by blending in with the surrounding |
| Clandestine | secretive |
| Coup | a brilliantly executed plan |
| Disingenuous | not straightfoward; crafty |
| Ruse | a trick |
| Stratagem | a clever trick used to deceive or outwit |
| Sureptitious | done by secretive means |
| Wary | on guard, watchful |
| Wily | cunning |
| Ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation |
| Ambivalent | uncertain |
| Apathetic | feeling or showing little emotion |
| Arbitrary | determined by impulse rather than reason |
| Capricious | impulsive and unpredictable |
| Equivocate | to avoid making a definite statement |
| Indifferent | not caring one way or the other |
| Spontaneous | unplanned |
| Whimsical | subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable |
| Inconsequential | unimportant |
| Superficial | shallow |
| Tenuous | having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure; weak |
| Trivial | of little importance or significance |
| Assiduous | hard working |
| Compelling | forceful |
| Diligent | marked by painstaking effort |
| Dogged | stubbornly persevering |
| Endure | to put up with; to survive a hardship |
| Intrepid | courageous; fearless |
| Maverick | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
| Obdurate | stubborn; inflexible |
| Obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action |
| Proliferate | to grow or increase rapidly |
| Tenacity | persistence |
| Vitality | energy |
| Assimilation | to absorb; to make similiar |
| Consensus | general agreement |
| Context | environment; circumstances of a situation |
| Derived | copied or adapted from a source |
| Incumbent | imposed as duty; obligatory |
| Inevitable | certain to happen |
| Malleable | easily shaped or formed |
| Subdue | to restrain; to hold back |
| Acquired | developed or learned; not naturally occurring |
| Conception | the ability to form or understand an idea |
| Conviction | a fixed or strong belief |
| Dogmatic | adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs |
| Enlightening | informative |
| Impression | a feeling or understanding resulting from an experience |
| Intuition | the power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight |
| Misconception | an incorrect understanding or interpretation |
| Preception | awareness; insight |
| Perspective | point of view |
| Profound | having great depth or seriousness |
| Inherent | inborn; built-in |
| Innate | possessed at birth; inborn |
| Inveterate | long established; deep rooted; habitual |
| Omnipotent | all-powerful |
| Proximity | closeness |
| Elusive | difficult to capture |
| Emigrate | to leave one country or region and settle in antoher |
| Transient | passing away with time; passing from one place to another |
| Transitory | short-lived; temporary |
| Affable | easy-going; friendly |
| Amenable | responsive; agreeable |
| Camaraderie | goodwill between friends |
| Cordial | friendly; sincere |
| Facetious | playfully humorous |
| Impinge | hinder; interference with |
| Lament | express grief for; mourn |
| Melancholy | sadness; depression |
| Sanction | (n) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country |
| Truncated | shortened; cut off |
| Aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty |
| Anthology | a collection of literary pieces |
| Contemporary | current, modern, from the same time |
| Dilettante | one with a superficial understanding of a field knowledge |
| Eclectic | made up of a variety of sources or styles |
| Excerpt | a selected part of a passage or scene |
| Genre | a category of artistic endeavor |
| Medley | an assortment or mixture |
| Mural | a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface |
| Narrative | a story |
| Parody | an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect |
| Realism | artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy |
| Virtuoso | a tremendously skilled artist |
| Decorous | proper; marked by good taste |
| Equanimity | the quality of being calm and even tempered; composure |
| Modest | quiet or humble in manner or appearance |
| Propriety | appropriateness of behavior |
| Prudent | exercising good judgement or common sense |
| Serene | calm |
| Staid | unemotional; serious |
| Stoic | indifferent to pleasure or pain |
| Condemn | to express strong disapproval of; denounce |
| Discredit | to cause to be doubted |
| Disparage | to belittle |
| Pejorative | words or phrases that belittle someone |
| Plagiarism | the act of passing off the ideas or writings of another as one's own |
| Vilify | to make vicious statements about someone |
| Brusque | rudely abrupt |
| Caustic | bitingly sarcastic or witty |
| Feral | savage; untamed |
| Fractious | quarrelsome, unruly |
| Incorrigible | unable to be reformed |
| Ingrate | an ungrateul person |
| Insolent | insulting in manner or speech |
| Notorious | infamous |
| Pugnacious | combative; belligerent |
| Reprehensible | worthy of blame |
| Brittle | easily broken when subjected to pressure |
| Deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious |
| Enmity | mutual hatred or ill will |
| Heinous | hatefully evil; abominable |
| Malfeasance | misconduct or wrong doing, especially by a public official |
| Malice | extreme ill will or spite |
| Putrid | rotten |
| Rancorous | hateful; marked by deep seated ill will |
| Toxic | poisonous |
| Archaic | characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned |
| Hackneyed | worn out through overuse; trite |
| Medieval | referring to the Middle Ages; old fashioned |
| Obsolete | no longer in use; old fashioned |
| Austere | without decoration; strict |
| Mediocrity | the state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality |
| Mundane | commonplace; ordinary |
| Ponderous | having great weight; massive; extremely dull |
| Prosaic | unimaginative; dull |
| Sedentary | not migratory; settled |
| Apprehension | anxiety or fear about the future |
| Harbinger | something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner |
| Omnous | menacing; threatening |
| Premonition | a feeling about the future |
| Timorous | timid; fearful about the future |
| Trepidation | uncertainty; apprehension |
| Innovative | introducing something new |
| Naive | lacking sophistication |
| Nascent | coming into existence; emerging |
| Novel | new or unusual |
| Novice | a beginner |
| Candor | sincerity; openness |
| Frank | open and sincere in expression; straightfoward |
| Arid | describing a dry, rainless climate |
| Conflagration | a wide spread fire |
| Nocturnal | of or occuring in the night |
| Sonorous | producing a deep or full sound |
| Ample | descrbing a large amount of something |
| Comprehensive | large in scope or content |
| Copious | plentiful; having a large quantity |
| Permeated | spread or flowing throughout |
| Pervasive | dispersed throughout |
| Prodigious | enormous |
| Replete | abundantly supplied; filled to capacity |
| Exemplary | commendable; worthy of imitation |
| Idealize | to consider perfect |
| Laudatory | giving praise |
| Paramount | of chief concern or importance |
| Venerated | highly respected |
| Catalog | (v) to make an itemized list of |
| Facile | easy; done or achieved with little effort |
| Fastidious | possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please |
| Hierarchy | a group organized by rank |
| Meticulous | extremely careful and precise |
| Pragmatic | practical |
| Solvent | able to pay one's debts |
| Abstract | not applied to actual objects |
| Apparatus | equipment; a group of machines |
| Paradigm | an example or model |
| Phenomenon | an unusual, observable event |
| Rational | logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling |
| Theoretical | lacking application or practical application |
| Cartographer | one who designs or makes maps |
| Vocation | an occupation or profession |
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