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English Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Broach | Raise a subject for discussion |
| Comtemplative | Involving deep and serious thought |
| Diversify | Vary or enlarge range of product (in a business) |
| Evasive | Attempting to avoid a difficult situation or answering the question in a very vague way |
| Felonious | Related to or involved in a crime |
| Gaunt | Skeletal or haggard appearance due to hunger or age |
| Grievance | A wrongdoing or cause for complaint (especially due to unfair treatment) |
| Ingenuity | The ability to think creatively and solve problems |
| Heirloom | Something of value that has belonged to a family for several generations |
| Irate | Angry, furious |
| Luxuriate | Enjoy to excess |
| Malicious | Evil, threatening, taking pleasure in hurting others |
| Palatial | Describing a large spacious estate resembling a palace |
| Pariah | A person rejected from society or home |
| Preeminent | Greatest, best, surpassing all others |
| Relegate | To banish, send to exile, dismiss to lower place |
| Rustic | Rural, related to countryside, |
| Tirade | Long, angry speech, full or criticism |
| Ultimatum | Final demand, which rejection of which will mean the end of negotiations of the breakdown of à relationship |
| Vigorous | Full of energy, strong, healthy, robust |