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Eng Vocabulary
First 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abjure | to renounce, repudiate, or retract |
| abrogate | to abolish by formal means; put aside, repeal |
| abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking; characterized by abstinence |
| acumen | keen insight |
| antebellum | existing before the (Civil) war |
| auspicious | promising success |
| belie | to show as false; contradict |
| bellicose | inclined or eager to fight; aggresively hostile |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate by removing/modifying passages; censoring |
| chicanery | trickery, deception, sophistry |
| chromosome | carrier of genes; consisting of chromatin |
| churlish | boorish, rude, mean |
| circumlocution | roundabout way of speaking; use of more words than necessary |
| circumnavigate | to sail/ fly around; make a circuit by navigation |
| deciduous | shedding leaves annually |
| deleterious | harmful; injurious to health |
| diffident | dhy; lacking confidence in one's own ability |
| enervate | to weaken; to deprive of strength |
| enfranchise | to admit to citizenship |
| epiphany | a sudden, intuitive perception/insight into reality |