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English Vocab Semes1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstain | to refrain from something voluntarily |
| Beneficent | doing good |
| Candid | frank; straightforward; sincere |
| Coerce | to compel, to force |
| Dubious | doubtful, uncertain |
| Fallacy | a false idea; mistaken belief; error |
| Indolence | love of ease and inactivity; laziness |
| Lucid | clear; easily understood |
| Nostalgia | a longing for experiences, things or people from the past |
| Precarious | insecure; unsafe; dangerous |
| Adamant | unyielding; hard |
| Amendable | easy to persuade; open to suggestion; agreeable |
| Augment | to increase; to enlarge |
| Chronic | constant; habitual |
| Cursory | rapidly or hurriedly done |
| Eccentric | different from the usual; odd; peculiar |
| Irrelevant | off the subject; not applicable |
| Lethargy | a state of inaction or indifference; dislike of activity |
| Panacea | a cure-all; a general remedy for all ailments |
| Plebeian | common, unrefined |
| Affable | sociable, friendly, agreeable |
| Avarice | greediness; extreme desire for wealth |
| Bigot | a person stubbornly and intolerantly devoted to one set of ideas |
| Charlatan | a person who pretends to have knowledge or ability; an impostor |
| Coherent | sticking together, logically organized and consistent |
| Diffident | shy; lacking in self-confidence |
| Feasible | capable of being done; practicable |
| Loquacious | talkative; enjoys talking |
| Pertinent | relating directly to the subject |
| Veracity | truthfulness |
| Altruism | concern for others, their interests welfare, etc. |
| Derogatory | showing an unfavorable opinion of someone or something |
| Dogmatic | speaking as thought one's opinion were established fact |
| Emulate | to imitate another person in order to equal or surpass the person |
| Gregarious | fond of associating with others |
| Indigent | needy, poor |
| Lucrative | financially profitable |
| Obsolete | no longer in use; out of date |
| Opulence | wealth, riches, abundance as shown in luxurious living |
| Impunity | freedom from punishment |
| Incorrigible | not capable of being corrected; not correctable |
| Incredulous | unwilling to believe; doubtful; skeptical |
| Insatiable | not capable of being satisfied; greedy |
| Inanimate | not living; without life or consciousness |
| Lugubrious | sad, mournful |
| Ostentatious | showy; indicating fondness for unnecessary outward display |
| Phlegmatic | sluggish; calm; not easily around |
| Plausible | seeming to be true and reasonable |
| Reactionary | favoring return to former state of affairs, especially in politics |
| Audacious | daring, bold, adventurous |
| Enigma | a riddle; a puzzling problem or statement |
| Facetious | humorous, funny; trying to be humorous |
| Immaculate | spotlessly clean, pure |
| Implacable | impossible to pacify, calm, or appease |
| Inexplicable | unexplainable |
| Irrevocable | impossible to withdraw, cancel, or revoke |
| Latent | in existence but hidden or concealed |
| Pernicious | causing harm; very injurious; wicked |
| Propriety | fitness,suitability, proper behavior |
| Ambiguous | having two meanings; unclear |
| Assiduous | hardworking, persistent, steadily working |
| Deprecate | to express disapproval of someone or something |
| Facile | easily done; working in an easy manner |
| Homogeneous | all of the same kind |
| Immutable | not changeable, never changing |
| Impervious | impossible to penetrate or affect |
| Obsequious | overly polite and obedient; slave like; fawning |
| Pecuniary | relating to money; consisting of money; financial |
| Reiterate | to repeat |
| Affluent | rich, prosperous |
| Apathy | lack of emotion, feeling, or excitement; lack of concern |
| Connive | to cooperate secretly with someone; to have a secret understanding with someone |
| Exonerate | to free someone from blame or from an accusation |
| Incongruous | having inconsistent or inharmonious parts |
| Inexorable | unyielding; not changeable; relentless |
| Plaintiff | one who brings a lawsuit against another |
| Proximity | nearness to something |
| Sagacity | mental keenness, shrewdness |
| Sanguine | hopeful, cheerful |
| Disparage | to lower the estimation of someone or something |
| Mundane | worldly, earthly |
| Nefarious | very wicked |
| Peremptory | very positive; not to be refused or denied |
| Posthumous | happening after death |
| Surfeited | overfed to the point of nausea; having had too much of something |
| Tacit | silent, unspoken |
| Taciturn | not speaking, not talkative |
| Tenacious | holding fast or likely to gold fast; stubborn |
| Voracious | greedy in eating; very eager; insatiable |
| Antipathy | a dislike of someone or something |
| Connotation | the implied meaning of a word or expression beyond its actual meaning |
| Cryptic | having a hidden meaning; obscure; mysterious |
| Dilemma | a situation in which one much choose between two poor alternatives |
| Exorbitant | excessive; beyond what is customary or reasonable |
| Impeccable | faultless |
| Impotent | powerless, not necessarily in a physical sense |
| Ingenuous | frank, sincere, naive |
| Intangible | not capable of being touched; describing an object which is not material |
| Perfunctory | done mechanically, without thought or interest |
| Circumspect | considering all angles of the situation before taking any action; careful |
| Malevolent | wishing evil; showing ill will |
| Malign | to speak evil of someone or something |
| Officious | offering help or advice which has not been asked for; meddling |
| Ostracize | to banish from society or social privileges |
| Plagiarize | to pass off as one's own work of someone else. |
| Pseudo | false, counterfeit, pretended |
| Recalcitrant | stubbornly resisting authority; disobedient |
| Vindictive | having a strong desire for revenge; revengeful |
| Culpable | deserving blame; blameworthy |
| Ostensible | apparent, pretended |
| Platitude | a commonplace, trite remark |
| Replete | filled to capacity |
| Salient | standing out; prominent; conspicuous |
| Scrupulous | very careful to do the right thing; giving conscientious attention to details |
| Spurious | not genuine; false |
| Subjugate | to conquer; to subdue; to force into one's power |
| Transitory | lasting only a short time; temporary |
| Venerable | deserving respect or admiration |
| Intrepid | fearless, brave, daring |
| Notorious | widely known but with a bad repuation |
| Omniscient | knowing everything; very wise |
| Poignant | painful; painfully moving or touching |
| Reticent | silent, reserved, not inclined to say much |
| Sardonic | bitterly scornful, sneering, sarcastic |
| Sinecure | a position or office which requires little or no work, yet pays well |
| Succinct | expressed briefly and clearly; concise |
| Truculent | fierce, cruel; showing a fierce manner; threatening |
| Ubiquitous | being everywhere at the same time; present everywhere |
| Chaos | confusion, complete disorder |
| Clandestine | done with secrecy, usually for an evil purpose; underhanded |
| Extant | still in existence |
| Gullible | easily deceived or cheated |
| Inscrutable | not understandable |
| Ludicrous | laughable; amusingly absurd |
| Ominous | threatening; foreshadowing something bad |
| Sacrilegious | injurious to or disrespectful of sacred things or persons |
| Vacillate | to waver; to change one's mind back and forth |
| Vulnerable | capable of being injured; open to attack |
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