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Chris Keen vocab 1
English exam vocab 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Constructed or covered with a vault | Vaulted |
| A condition present to birth | Congenital |
| Continuing | Perpetual |
| Hand to hand combat | Melee |
| One that is seeking revenge | Nemesis |
| antisocial | sociopath |
| to mock | scoff |
| monarch is not at the top of the government in a state | republic |
| middle class | bourgeois |
| one that questions an action is | skeptical |
| likes to fight | bellicose |
| death | demise |
| covered up in secrecy | shrouded |
| hastily done, often without thinking | cursory |
| to make something appear | conjure |
| gloomy | morose |
| destroyed | obliterated |
| wordy | garrulous |
| expressing pity | rueful |
| desire to do well | benevolence |
| unfriendly | surly |
| unreal | surreal |
| a sudden realization | epiphany |
| expressed in few words | succinct |
| info, ideas, or rumors | propaganda |
| sharp in practical manners | shrewd |
| full of juice | succulent |
| gloomy, extreme; suggesting an unhealthy attitude | morbidly |
| foul and repulsive | squalid |
| exemption from punishment | impunity |
| unending | incessant |
| an illusory likeness | phantasm |
| wise, keen | sagacious |
| characteristic attitude or state of mind | disposition |
| persistent in what is wrong | perverseness |
| exited gesture | gesticulation |
| ridicule | derision |
| swaggity | suavity |
| small crack | crevice |
| hypocrisy | dissimulation |
| containing poison | venomous |
| very large | gorging |
| tunnel | flue |
| flammable fuel | kerosene |
| puppet | marionette |
| large burial chamber | mausoleum |
| soft or fatty skin | tallow |
| feeling of sadness, depression | melancholy |
| oppression of speech | censorship |
| the process of applying ideas | ingenuity |
| society characterized by misery | dystopia |