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English vocab final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accordant | Being in agreement or harmony; consonant. |
| Albeit | Use to add information. |
| Amorous | Inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love. |
| Analogous | Comparable in certain respects, corresponding in some fashion. |
| Assail | To attack vigorously or violently; assault. |
| Astute | Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; sagacious; cleverly cunning. |
| Auspicious | Promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable. |
| Beget | To procreate or generate (offspring). |
| Bellicose | Inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious. |
| Bereft | Deprived of somebody or something; to deprive ruthlessly or by force. |
| Beseech | To request earnestly; to beg eagerly for; solicit. |
| Brigand | A member of a gang, a robber or bandit. |
| Capitulate | To surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms; to give up resistance. |
| Cavil | To raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily. |
| Chastening | A rebuke for making a mistake. |
| Confound | Archaic; To bring to ruin; to perplex or amaze. |
| Copious | Large in quantity or number, abundant. |
| Countenance | Appearance; a person's face or facial expression. |
| Curate | Member of the clergy. |
| Delusion | A false belief of opinion held in the face of evidence to the contrary. |
| Deportment | Personal conduct; behavior. |
| Deposition | The action of depositing something; removal from an office. |
| Deprecating | To belittle; to urgent reason against; protest against. |
| Discursive | Digesting from subject to subject, rambling. |
| Disdain | Extreme contempt or disgust for something or somebody; to treat with contempt. |
| Dubious | Doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt. |
| Ebullient | Overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited. |
| Emissary | A person sent on a special mission or errand. |
| Emulate | To try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass. |
| Entourage | Group of attendants or associates, as of a person of rank or importance. |
| Epigram | A concise, witty, or pointed remark or saying that is tersely expressed. |
| Errant | Deviating from the regular or proper cause; erring; straying. |
| Etheral | Or relating to the regions beyond the earth; airy, light. |
| Extol | To praise highly; laud; eulogize. |
| Fatuous | Foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner. |
| Febrile | Pertaining to or marked by fever; feverish. |
| Feign | To give a false appearance of; to represent falsely. |
| Felicity | Intense happiness; the state of bliss. |
| Gambol | To skip about in play, to leap about playfully; frolic. |
| Garrison | A body of troops stationed in a fortified place. |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters. |
| Glean | To collect or gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit. |
| Goad | A stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for prodding into motion. |
| Gratis | Without charge, cost, or payment. |
| Imperious | Domineering in a haughty manner; intensely compelling; urgent; dictatorial. |
| Incendiary | (of a device or attack) designed to cause fires. |
| Incredulous | Skeptical, disinclined or indisposed to believe. |
| Intercession | The act of pleading on somebody's behalf. |
| Irksome | Annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome. |
| Laconic | Using or involving the use of a minimum of words. |
| Languid | Lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow. |
| Languor | Sluggish; a relaxed comfortable feeling. |
| Lineaments | Features or details of a face, body, or figure. |
| Magnanimous | Very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival. |
| Morose | Gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. |
| Mutability | Prone to change, fickle, inconsistent. |
| Nascent | Coming or having recently come into existence. |
| Nonplused | To cause to be at a loss as to what to say, think, or do; perplexed. |
| Obliquely | Devious, misleading, or dishonest. |
| Pernicious | Causing insidious harm or ruin. |
| Pertinacity | The quality of being firm, decisive, and resolute. |
| Plight | A dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation. |
| Presage | Something that portends or foreshadows a future event. |
| Prodigal | Wastefully or recklessly extravagant; lavish. |
| Prolixity | Tiresome wordiness; tedious length. |
| Proprietary | Pertaining to property or ownership |
| Quail | To give way; falter; to lose heart or courage in difficulty |
| Repartee | Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies. |
| Resolute | A resolve or determination; a formal expression of opinion or intention made. |
| Resplendent | Shining brilliantly; having great beauty or splendor. |
| Salubrious | Favorable to or promoting health or well being. |
| Sardonic | Scornfully or cynically joking; mocking, sneering. |
| Scrupulous | Having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right. |
| Sinecure | Office or position requiring little or no work. |
| Transcendent | Going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding. |
| Tumultuous | Full of riotousness; marked by disturbance; raising a great clatter and commotion. |
| Ubiquitous | Present, appearing, or found everywhere. |
| Ultimatum | A final, uncompromising proposal or statement of condition. |
| Venerable | Accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character. |
| Vigilant | Keenly watchful to detect danger; alert; wary. |