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Eng. III Vocab 61
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Auspices | (n) protection or support; patronage; a portent, omen, or augury especially when based on the action of birds |
| Auspicious | (adj) attended by favorable circumstance |
| Circumspect | (adj) heedful of circumstances or consequences; prudent |
| Despicable | (adj) deserving of scorn or contemt |
| Introspective | (adj) sel-examining; thinking about one's own thoughts or feelings |
| Perspicuity | (n) the quality of being clearly expressed or easily understood; the ability to perceive or understand keenly |
| Prospective | (adj) likely to become or be; likely to happen; expected |
| Specious | (adj) having the ring of truth but actually false |
| Specter | (n) phantom; apparition; a threatening or haunting possibility |
| Spectrum | (n) a broad sequence or range of related qualities, ideas, or activities; a range of values of a quantity or set of related quantities |