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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Captious (adj) | disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
| Disingenuous (adj) | not candid; crafty |
| Equivocate (verb) | to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
| Execrate (verb) | to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil |
| Exacerbate (verb) | to make worse or more severe |
| Execrable (adj) | detestable; abhorrent |
| Exhort (verb) | to urge by strong appeals |
| Extemporaneous (adj) | improvised; done without preparation |
| Encomium (noun) | glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
| Equanimity (noun) | composure; calmness |
| Eccentric (adj) | departing from norms or conventions |
| Excoriate (verb) | to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
| Expiate (verb) | to atone or make amends for |
| Furtive (adj) | marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
| Fulminate (verb) | to loudly attack or denounce |
| Flout (verb) | to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
| Gainsay (verb) | to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose |
| Glib (adj) | marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
| Froward (adj) | stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient |
| Fallow (adj) | plowed but not sowed; uncultivated |
| Ingenuous (adj) | artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
| Inimical (adj) | damaging; harmful; injurious |
| Innocuous (adj) | harmless; causing no damage |
| Intransigent (adj) | refusing to compromise |
| Irresolute (adj) | unsure of how to act; weak |
| Lubricious (adj) | lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
| Minatory (adj) | menacing, threatening |
| Nugatory (adj) | trifling; invalid |
| Officious (adj) | too helpful; meddlesome |
| Obdurate (adj) | unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
| Obstinate (adj) | stubborn; hard-headed; uncompromising |
| Obstreperous (adj) | noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
| Onerous (adj) | troubling; burdensome |
| Opprobrium (noun) | disgrace; contempt; scorn |
| Profligate (adj) | excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
| Prevaricate (verb) | to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
| Predilection (noun) | a disposition in favor of something; preference |
| Palliate (verb) | to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
| Plangent (adj) | pounding, thundering, resounding |
| Perfunctory (adj) | cursory; done without care or interest |
| Propitiate (verb) | to appease; to conciliate |
| Perfidy (noun) | intentional breach of faith; treachery |
| Profuse (adj) | given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
| Placate (verb) | to appease; to calm by making concessions |
| Propensity (noun) | a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
| Pernicious (adj) | extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
| Putrefy (verb) | to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
| Platitude (noun) | a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
| Quixotic (adj) | foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
| Rancorous (adj) | characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
| Reverent (adj) | marked by feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
| Sardonic (adj) | cynical; scornfully mocking |
| Servile (adj) | submissive; obedient |
| Stultify (verb) | to impair or reduce to uselessness |
| Suppliant (adj) | beseeching |
| Salubrious (adj) | promoting health or well-being |
| Salutary (adj) | remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
| Sedulous (adj) | diligent, persistent, hard-working |
| Sententious (adj) | aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
| Soporific (adj) | causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
| Specious (adj) | seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
| Venal (adj) | bribable; mercenary; corruptible |
| Veracity (noun) | truthfulness; honesty |
| Vilify (verb) | to defame; to characterize harshly |
| Virulent (adj) | extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
| Vitiate (verb) | to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective |
| Vituperate (verb) | to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate |
| Whimsical (adj) | fanciful; unpredictable |
| Wistful (adj) | vaguely longing; sadly thoughtful |
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