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Bartleby
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Remunerative | affording remuneration; profitable |
| Prudence | caution with regard to practical matters; discretion. |
| Abrogation | |
| Indecorous | not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly. |
| Evince | to show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove. |
| Malediction | a curse; imprecation |
| Execrable | utterly detestable; abominable; abhorrent. |
| Obstreperous | resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly. |
| Alacrity | cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness |
| Recondite | dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter |
| Sanguine | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident |
| Ignominious | discreditable; humiliating; disgraceful; shameful |
| Gainsay | to deny, dispute, or contradict. |
| Dyspeptic | gloomy, pessimistic, and irritable |
| Pugilistic | a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional. |
| Tacit | silent; saying nothing |
| Nonchalance | cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness. |
| Effrontery | shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity |
| Chimera | a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. |
| Sagacious | having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd |
| Incubus | a nightmare |
| Quiescent | being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless |