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ALL 1A VOCAB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Squalid | sordid; dirty; marked by filthiness |
| Capitulate | to surrender; to give up resistance |
| Sanctuary | a refuge; a place of worship |
| Elude | evade; clearly avoid |
| Inscrutable | obscure; not capable of being understood |
| Enigma | puzzling; mysterious |
| Delusion | a deception; a false idea or opinion |
| Purge | to cleanse; to purify; to free from impurities |
| Secular | worldly; not sacred or religious |
| Uncouth | lacking good manners, refinement, or grace |
| Laconic | Using few words; brief, to the point |
| Loquacious | Talkative |
| Candor | honesty, frankness |
| Jeopardy | Danger; peril; vulnerability |
| Benign | Gentle; showing kindness of disposition |
| Pugnacious | Belligerent; combative; obnoxious |
| Dissipate | Scatter; vanish; to waste |
| Acquiesce | Assent; to accept passively or reluctantly |
| Denigrate | Defame; belittle; criticize unkindly |
| Rapacious | aggressively greedy or grasping |
| Copious | abundant in supply or quantity |
| Obsolete | no longer produced or used; out of date |
| Palatable | edible; pleasant tasting; to one’s taste |
| Vehement | forcibly expressed; impassioned; fervid |
| Fruition | accomplishment; realization |
| Eradicate | exterminate; do away with completely |
| Extricate | to free; remove from entanglement |
| Malevolence | malice; hatred toward others; intention to harm |
| Outlandish | Something strikingly strange or unusual |
| Ambivalence | uncertainty in attitude; fluctuation |
| Recalcitrant | resistant; defiant of authority |
| Cogent | convincing; valid; forcibly appealing to the mind |
| Affluence | profusions; overflowing of wealth; an abundance |
| Astute | clever; shrewd; intellectually observant |
| Vindictive | revengeful; spiteful; wanting to hurt or harm |
| Catharsis | purification; cleansing of emotions |
| Insatiable | quenchless; incapable of being satisfied |
| Perpetual | everlasting; continuing forever |
| Vestige | remnant; that which is left |
| Clandestine | secretive; held or conducted secretly |
| Tacit | Understood without explanation; implicit |
| Manifest | Obvious; readily perceived by the senses |
| Inimitable | Impossible to copy; unique |
| Felicity | Great happiness; state of being happy |
| Accentuate | Emphasize; to accent something |
| Eccentric | Odd; deviating from a pattern/form |
| Debacle | Great disaster; fiasco; a tumultuous breakup |
| Ostracize | Exclusion; banishment; social exclusion |
| Ameliorate | Improve; to make better or more tolerable |
| Pernicious | Wicked; deadly; highly destructive |
| Morose | expressive of gloom; sullen; unsociable |
| Galvanize | shock or excite (someone) into taking action |
| Abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition; very bad or severe |
| Precarious | dangerous; unsafe; hazardous |
| Plethora | excess; superfluity; an overabundance |
| Aesthetic | artistic; relating to or dealing with beauty; appealing to the eye |
| Rapport | harmony; relation marked by accord |
| Haughty | having or showing a proud and superior attitude |
| Chide | to scold gently |
| Austerity | extreme economy; an ascetic practice |
| Taciturn | Reserved; uncommunicative |
| Sardonic | Grimly mocking; cynical |
| Trite | Lacking originality or freshness; overused |
| Insidious | Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects |
| Voracious | gluttonous; extremely greedy; insatiable |
| Abhor | Hate |
| Disparate | Essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison |
| Placid | Calm; peaceful |
| Egregious | Conspicuously bad |
| Peruse | Examine or read thoroughly and carefully |
| Svelte | Slender; elegant |
| Conflagration | a large disastrous fire; conflict; war |
| Nullify | To counter; make unimportant |
| Incorrigible | Incapable of being corrected; unruly; unalterable |
| Formidable | Causing fear or dread; impressive |
| Innocuous | Harmless; inoffensive |
| Impunity | Freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| Placate | To calm the anger or bitterness of; appease |
| Petulant | Rude in speech or behavior; temporary ill humor |
| Indelible | Not able to be forgotten or removed |
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