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Vocab Test 8
Meier's test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| opportunist | takes advantage of the situation |
| ostentatious | exaggerated display |
| pervasive | spreading throughout |
| placate | to still |
| predilection | to need specifically |
| presumptuous | rude, arrogant |
| quandary | puzzle, dilemma |
| rebuff | blunt, abrupt, rejection |
| relegate | to assign to a lower position |
| reprove | to scold |
| resign | to quit or give in |
| savory | pleasing to the sense of of taste, or herb |
| scrutinize | to look at critically |
| somber | gloomy or melancholy in character, dimness |
| stoic | seeming unaffected, no emotion |
| sycophant | use of flattery, brown nosing |
| tentative | hesitant |
| torpid | hot and humid |
| turbulence | state of violent disturbance and disorder |
| unprecedented | never having happened before |
| vacillation | undecided, to move back and forth |
| vagrant | no house or job |
| virtuouso | master at as a skill |
| volatile | explosive sudden changes |
| zealot | fanatic |