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107 english vocab
Vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Portentous | significant |
| Posthumous | occuring after death |
| pragmatic | practical and realistic |
| Prescient | knowing things before they happen |
| prestidigitation | sleight of hand |
| pretentious | making an exaggerated outward show |
| prodigal | wasteful |
| profuse | plentiful |
| propititate | to make favorably inclined |
| prowess | superior ability |
| pulchritudinous | physically beautiful |
| querulous | irritable |
| quibble | argue about unimportant things |
| quiescent | quite |
| quintessence | the most perfect embodiment of something |
| quixotic | romantic |
| rancorous | maliciously resentful or hostile |
| rapport | harmonious relation with another person |
| rarefied | high or elevated |
| recant | to withdraw a statement |
| reciprocal | mutual |
| recompense | repay |
| redundant | unnecessary |
| regenerate | revive |
| reiterate | repeat |
| relinquish | givve up possession of |
| reminiscence | memories |
| repertoire | range of number of skills a person had |
| restive | restless |
| ululation | to utter howling sounds |
| umbrageous | creating or providing shade |
| unctuous | having and oily charm |
| unequivocal | having only one possible meaning |
| unseemly | not in good style or taste |
| urbane | reflecting eleganceq |
| usurer | person who lents funds at an exorbitant rate of interest |
| vacuous | lacking in ideas or intelligence |
| vagary | unpredictable action |
| vehement | strongly emotional |
| velleity | a mere wish |
| vertiginous | producing dizziness |
| viable | capable of becoming actual useful |
| vicarious | being felt through the experience of others |
| vindication | justification |
| zealous | extremely enthusiastic for a cause or belief |
| resurgence | rebirth |
| retrospect | looking backward or reviewing the past |
| risque | suggesting improper or indelicate ideas |
| rotund | rounded in shap |
| rubicund | reddish |
| rudimentary | basic |
| rueful | regretful |
| salacious | stimulating to the lustful imagination |
| salient | most important |
| salubrious | healthful |
| sanctimonious | making a prethense of pity |
| sanguine | cheerful |
| sardonic | scornful |
| saturnine | gloomy |
| scurrilous | insulting |
| scretion | liquid for cells |
| secular | of the world not of god |
| serendipitous | of fortunate and accidental discovery |
| senescent | of aging growing older |
| sentient | having sense perception |
| shrewd | insightful |
| sibilant | making a hissing soun |
| sinecure | a paid job that requires no work |
| sinuous | having curves |
| sojourn | to stay for a time in a place |
| solicitous | anxiour |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| sordid | morally ignoble or base; vile |
| spasmodic | taking place in sudden brief spells |
| specious | apparently good or right |
| spurious | not true |
| stalwart | strong and brave |
| stigmatize | to set some mark of disgrace upon |
| strident | loud and shrill piercing |
| stultify | to make foolish |
| subjugate | to bring under complete control |
| succinct | expressed in few words |
| sumptuous | luxuriously |
| supercilious | contemptuous |
| superficial | being at on or near the surface |
| supplicant | asking humbly for something |
| swarthy | having a dark complxion |
| sycophant | a person who uses falttery to win a favor |
| tacit | understood with out being openly expressed |
| tangible | capable of being touched |
| tawdry | gaudy |
| temerity | reckless boldness |
| tempestuous | violent or stormy |
| tenuous | lacking a sound basis |
| tepid | slightly wark, lukewarm |
| timorous | full of fear |
| tonsorial | pertaingint to a barber |
| torrential | pouring or slowing fast |
| truculent | aggressively hostial |
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