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WW.I.4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abate | lessen, decrease |
| abyss | deep and bottomless chasm |
| allure | to delude, to deceive, to cheat out of something |
| anecdote | a brief story, usually about a personal experience |
| animosity | hostility; strong dislike; active hatred; enmity |
| aperture | a narrow opening; hole, gap, slit, orifice |
| appellation | name or title |
| balk | hesitate, refuse to proceed, throw obstacles in the way |
| beguile | to attract, entice, tempt, fascinate |
| cajole | to use flattery to try to persuade; to butter up |
| censure | severe criticism or public denunciation |
| chasm | a very deep narrow gorge; abyss |
| chide | to scold, to rebuke , to nag |
| circumvent | to avoid by sidestepping or going around |
| cite | to mention, name, refer to |
| cleft | an opening or slit; a split or division; a crack or crevice |
| cloying | excessively, unpleasantly sweet or rich in flavor or aroma |
| derelict | in ruins, neglect; homeless person; abandoned ship |
| diminish | lessen, become smaller, shrink |
| dotage | old age; period late in life when requiring extra care or love |
| ebb | decrease or fade away |
| entice | to tempt, attract, seduce |
| epithet | nickname; descriptive label |
| exasperation | frustration, annoyance, vexation, irritated fury |
| expurgate | to edit out all offensive matter; censor |
| fateful | ominous; portentous; affecting one's destiny; hinting at approaching disaster |
| fiend | devil; evil person |
| fissure | crack, slit, narrow opening |
| foil | to prevent or thwart |
| foreboding | sense of dread; feeling of imminent trouble; apprehension |
| foreshadowing | hints of something yet to happen; prophecy; forewarning |
| frustrate | thwart, foil, prevent, hinder, obstruct, impede |
| glut | to overfill or to saturate; overabundance; surfeit; excess |
| glutton | overeater |
| harbinger | forerunner, omen, signal of something about to approach |
| herald | crier, announcer, messenger; precursor; to announce |
| impeach | to charge with wrongdoing; to discredit; to claim malfeasance |
| impugn | to refute, repudiate, or attack as being false; to argue against |
| incite | provoke to action; urge; stir up |
| indignation | justified anger, resentment, righteous annoyance |
| inveigle | to cajole; to lead astray; to win over by deceitful flattery |
| ire | anger |
| lament | an expression of sorrow, remorse, or loss |
| lure | to tempt into or toward a dangerous or harmful situation; bait |
| manifest | to show or exhibit; to be obvious or conspicuous |
| omen | presentiment; prophetic sign; portent; predictor of the future |
| permeate | to spread throughout; to diffuse |
| pervade | to spread throughout; to diffuse |
| pestilence | a disease or the epidemic it causes; a plague; an evil agent |
| plaintive | sad; mournful |
| portent | a sign or feeling that something bad is about to happen |
| precursor | a sign or feeling that something bad is about to happen |
| presentiment | a sign or feeling that something bad is about to happen |
| purgative | a laxative; a bowel-cleansing agent; cathartic; cleansing |
| purgatory | a place of expiation, cleansing, suffering, remorse |
| purge | to cleanse or purify |
| rebuke | to scold, reproach, chide, admonish; a scolding or admonition |
| relict | widow |
| reprehend | to reprove, to criticize, to censure |
| reprimand | severe formal criticism or censure; to censure |
| reproach | to scold |
| reprove | to scold |
| resent | to be offended by, to dislike, to bear a grudge against |
| rue | to regret or feel repentant about; sorrow; regret |
| sate | to satisfy fully |
| satiate | to satisfy to excess; to glut; to oversatisfy |
| saturate | to fill or soak or impregnate to capacity |
| seduce | to lead astray; to corrupt; to entice toward wrong behavior |
| subside | to diminish in intensity, to fade, to recede, to dwindle, to settle down |
| surfeit | an excess or surplus; an overload; to overload |
| thwart | to frustrate, prevent, hinder, block; a seat across the width of a boat |
| upbraid | to scold, reproach, or chastise |
| vexation | irritation, frustration, annoyance, exasperation |
| wane | to decrease, diminish, fade, begin to disappear |
| wax | to increase, grow, expand, enlarge, swell |
| wrath | anger |
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dexmc22
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