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Word Masters 2010
Question | Answer |
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auditory | pertaining to hearing, to the sense of hearing, or to the organs of hearing. |
billow | a great wave or surge of the sea. |
copious | large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: |
diminish | to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce. |
enhance | to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: |
epoch | a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.: |
feign | to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of |
impertinent | intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil: |
insubordinate | not submitting to authority; disobedient: |
meander | to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: |
milieu | surroundings, esp. of a social or cultural nature |
noisome | offensive or disgusting, as an odor |
prevaricate | to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie. |
profusion | abundance; abundant quantity. |
range | an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north. |
redundancy | the provision of additional or duplicate systems, equipment, etc., that function in case an operating part or system fails, as in a spacecraft. |
rift | an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink |
scintillate | to emit sparks |
scope | extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: |
superfluous | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive. |
surfeit | excess; an excessive amount: |
tactile | of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch. |
undulate | to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement: |
augment | to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent |
scintillate | to emit sparks |
scope | extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: |
superfluous | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive. |
surfeit | excess; an excessive amount: |
tactile | of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch. |
undulate | to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement: |
augment | to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent |