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Question | Answer |
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Aggregate | sum; total |
Ambiguous | unclear; hard to understand |
Artisan | skilled worker |
Ascetic | a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons. |
Bolster | to add support |
Candor | honesty |
Debunk | prove false |
Erudite | scholarly, wise |
Fastidious | meticulous |
Frivolous | silly |
Hardy | plentiful |
Impudent | rude |
Indigenous | native |
intrepid | fearless |
laconic | to the point |
obtuse | dumb; not precise |
Pariah | outcast |
Ponderous | bulky; lifeless |
Querulous | complaining |
Raconteur | skilled storyteller |
Uniformity | sameness |
Vilify | attack; slander |
Whimsical | fanciful |
Aback | surprised |
Befuddled | confused |
Cacophony | bad sound |
Denizen | occupant |
Euphemism | good sound |
Foray | sudden attack |
Guile | trick |
Hackneyed | over used |
Jovial | happy |
Kiln | something you used to heat |
Laggard | slow |
Magnanimous | generous |
Monolith | one rock tablet |
Nefarious | evil |
Perforate | to put a hole |
Absolve | free from responsibility |
Agape | surprise |
Beseech | beg |
Consternation | confusion; panic |
Didactic | teaching; preach |
Emollient | softening |
Foreboding | warning |
Genteel | polite |
Hiatus | break in continuity |
Immaculate | outstanding |
Jocular | kidding; joking |
Knave | child-like |
Lanky | skinny |
Malfeasance | wrong doing; mishap |
Acrid | sour |
Altruism | self-less |
Benign | good |
Candid | honest; open |
Debacle | falls apart |
Egregious | flagrant |
Furtive | secret |
Gaunt | skinny; sickly |
Hone | sharpen |
Ignoble | not honest |
Jalopy | old car |
Languish | hang around |
Mercurial | changes |
Obstinate | stubborn |
Pernicious | harmful |
Rancor | malice |
Sinuous | curvy |
Teeming | full of |
Usurp | take over |
Vapid | dull; boring |
Bellicose | war-like |
Callow | lacking sophistication |
Elucidate | understanding |
Forgo | forfeit; give up |
Goad | give confidence to |
Harbored | hidden (neg) |
Immaculate | flawless |
Invective | strong criticism |
Jostle | wrestling |
Latent | present but not use |
Meager | small |
Novice | beginner |
Olfactory | smell |
Penchant | inclination |
Ravenous | hungry |
Seditious | rebellion |
Tepid | moderate |
Utopian | perfect place |
Vagabond | wanderer |
Wane | fade away |
Brevity | brief |
Colloquial | common everyday speech |
Contemptuous | lacking respect |
Insipid | dull; lacking flavor |
Mollify | softening |
Gregarious | outgoing; social |
Cantankerous | quarrelsome |
Prodigal | stingy; poverty |
Quagmire | difficult |
Rancorous | malicious |
Upbraid | scold |
Stolid | lacking emotion |
Soporific | sleepy |
Obsequious | obeying |
Ebullient | excited |
Dogmatic | strictly rigid |
Cacophony | bad sounding |
Laud | praise |
Copious | plenty |
Glutton | fat |
Meticulous | ordered |
Transient | temporary |
Antediluvian | very old |
Furtive | sneaky |
Abhor | detest; dislike |
Bequeath | to give |
Churlish | rude |
Diaphanous | see through |
Esoteric | observe |
Feckless | w/o hope |
Gratuitous | needless |
Hiatus | break in continuity |
Inkling | little under |
Jocular | playful |
Lament | mourn |
Mercurial | changing |
Novice | beginner |
Ossify | harden |
Penchant | knack |
Quell | stop |
Ravenous | hunger |
Sagacious | wise |
Tepid | Luke-warm |
Truculent | defiant; boldly resist |
Vagabond | wanderer |
Winnow | remove |
Zealot | fanatic |
Amalgamation | to join |
Amicable | kind |
Berate | criticize |
Cadence | rhythm |
Dilatory | slow; lazy |
Disavow | reject |
Dearth | shortage |
Duplicitous | misleading |
Endemic | widespread |
Expeditious | speedy; prompt |
Frivolity | playful |
Grandiose | extravagant |
Idiosyncratic | distinctive |
Impugn | accuse |
Munificence | generosity |
Nefarious | evil |
Predominate | prevail; stronger leading force |
Resplendent | dazzling |
Spate | epidemic |
Speciousness | fallacy |
Surreptitious | secret |
Tawdry | cheap |
Truncating | shorten |
Venerability | to respect |
Voluble | talkative |
Modicum | small amount |
Motley | variety |
Negligence | disregard |
Obstreperous | hostile |
Panacea | cure all |
Perfunctory | automatic |
Pilfer | steal |
Pliant | flexible |
Raiment | clothing |
Remiss | negligence |
Rue | regret |
Ruffian | trouble-maker |
Sanctimonious | holy |
Slipshod | careless |
Supple | agile |
Surfeit | excess |
Tumultuous | chaotic |
Uncanny | strange |
Vacillated | hesitate |
Vector | point |
Vitriolic | venomous |
Vex | displease |
Voracious | devour |
Acuity | insight |
Bombastic | outrageous |
Candid | honest |
Decadent | descending |
Fortitude | determination |
Haughty | stuck up |
Immutable | unchanging |
Inane | silly |
Jubilant | happy |
Misconstrue | away from |
Myriad | many |
Obsolete | out of date |
Opulent | rich |
Pertinent | sure; important |
Recant | to take back |
Slander | utter falsity |
Truculent | aggressive |
Wraith | spirit; ghost |
Yoke | oppression |
Abscond | to leave |
Acerbic | bitter |
Adroit | skilled |
Bawdy | rough |
Brash | hasty; impatient |
Byzantine | complex |
Choleric | easily angered |
Concoct | create |
Curt | short; brief |
Derelict | ruined |
Diffident | shy |
Edacious | devour |
Erratic | sporadic; unpredictable |
Farcial | crazy |
Fleeting | passing |
Glacial | cold; bitter |
Holistic | complete |
Ineffable | overwhelming |
Irascible | bad tempered |
Insolence | bad mannered |
Languid | relaxed |
Lithe | agile; quick and well coordinated |
Misnomer | fallacy |
Abrogate | repeal |
Abscond | to escape |
Abysmal | terrible |
Accentuate | accent; emphasize |
Addendum | to supplement |
Altruism | self-ness |
Aspersion | slander |
Benefice | active kindness |
Bland | tasteless |
Buttress | to support |
Cajole | to persuade |
Carp | complain |
Chastise | scold |
Coagulate | thicken |
Concord | harmony |
Crass | rude; tactless |
Debauchery | wickedness |
Dichotomy | 2 separate equal parts |
Diurnal | daily |
Eclectic | variety |
Effluvium | invisible exaltation |
Emaciated | gaunt; skinny |
Enigma | mysterious; puzzled |
Fathom | understand |
Fiasco | disaster |
Filial | of son or daughter |
Germane | useful; pertaining to |
Hackneyed | overused |
Imbecile | idiot |
Impromptu | all of a sudden |
Indigent | poor |
Insatiable | unsatisfied |
Interloper | trespasser |
Jingoism | nationalism |
Juxtapose | unrelated |
Lugubrious | saddness |
Maritime | sea |
Opulent | rich |
Pernicious | harmful |
Phlegmatic | indifferent |
Pristine | perfect |
Remonstrance | protest |
Seethe | angry |
Sullen | gloomy |
Syncopated | shorted rhythmic |
Temporal | time |