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List 17
Ferguson 11 AP List 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity; not genuine; spurious |
| Artless | frank; without guile or artificiality |
| Askance | with a sidewise glance; supiciously; with disapproval |
| Beguile | cheat; charm; decieve |
| Bogus | not genuine; spurious |
| Callow | undeveloped; inexperienced |
| Canard | an absurd rumor circulated to decieve the public |
| Candid | 1. frank 2. without prejudice |
| Charlatan | a pretender to knowledge; quack; imposter |
| Chicanery | trickery; sophistry |
| Circumvent | to by-pass; evade; or escape |
| Crass | coarsely stupid |
| Credulous | tending to believe too readily; easily convinced |
| Dexterous | skillful physically or mentally |
| Dubious | 1. doubtful, 2. doubting |
| Duplicity | deception; double-dealing |
| Eclat | a brilliant success; brilliance; fame |
| Feign | to pretend |
| Gauche | akward; tactless; lacking social grace |
| Guile | deception; craft or cunning |
| Guileless | naive; without cunning |
| Gullible | easily cheated or tricked; credulous |
| Hoax | a trick or fraud |
| Hoodwink | to deceive |
| Ingenious | clever, resourceful, and inventive |
| Ingenuous | frank; simple; artless; innocent; unsophisticated |
| Intergrity | 1. wholeness, 2. uprightness; honesty |
| Mendacity | the act of lying; dishonesty |
| Navie | unaffectedly or foolishly simple; artless; unsophisticated |
| Neophyte | a beginner; a novice |
| Nominal | in name only, not in fact |
| Novice | beginner; neophyte; apprentice; tyro |
| Ostensible | apparent;alleged |
| Precocious | developed earlier than ususal |
| Prevaricate | to evade telling the truth; to evivocate |
| Probity | intergrity; uprightness; honesty |
| Puerile | childish; silly; immature |
| Pseudo | a combining form meaning false but deceptively similar, as a "pseudopod" seems to be a foot but its not actually |
| Qualm | feeling of uneasiness or doubt; a twinge of conscience |
| Sophisticated | worldy-wise; not naive or ingenuous, and therefore lacking in simplicity or naturalness |
| Specious | seeming to be good,cound, or correct without really being so |
| Spurious | false; counterfeit; not genuine |
| Suave | smoothly polite; polished |
| Subterfuge | action used to evade something unpleasent |
| Tyro | a beginner; a novice |
| Veracity | truthfulness |
| Versatile | competent at many things |
| Vulpine | of or like a fox;clever,cunning |
| Wily | crafty;cunning |
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