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Word of the Day Quiz
#4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| prohibitive (adj) | forbidding |
| embellish (v) | to decorate or make beautiful; to add fictious details |
| pretentious (adj) | characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved |
| decorum (n) | behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety |
| dystopia (n) | a society characterized by human misery or squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding |
| lackadaisical (adj) | lacking enthusiasm and determination, careless, lazy |
| mawkish (adj) | excessively sentimental |
| dogmatic (adj) | an arrogant assertion of opinions |
| bask (v) | to lie in warmth, to be exposed to a pleasing heat |
| haphazard (adj) | by chance, accident or random |
| minutiae (n) | the small, precise, or trivial details of something |
| influx (n) | a streaming together or continual incoming; a place where two rivers join |
| philippic (n) | insulting language; a tirade |
| precedent (n) | initial ruling that sets a standard |
| repulsive (adj) | eliciting disgust and rejection |
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