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Exam vocbulary
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Acrimonious | Bitter in nature |
Adroit | Skillful |
Advocate | Suppoter |
Alacrity | Cheerfullness |
Amicable | Friendly |
Asperity | Harsh manner |
Blatant | Flagrant |
Caustic | Severely critical |
Chagrin | Feeling of annoyance |
Clandestine | Surreptitious |
Coerce | Compel by intimidation |
Cognizant | Aware of |
Conjecture | Guess |
Cryptic | Mysterious |
culpable | blameworthly |
disparage | belittle |
dupe | gullible person |
egregious | remarkably bad |
emaciated | wasted away |
eminent | outstanding |
eschew | avoid |
euphemism | tactful expression |
exacerbate | worsen |
expunge | erase |
feint | false attack |
fortuitous | happening by chance |
fray | battle |
gesticulate | animated |
hapless | unlucky |
harbinger | prediction |
histrionics | emotional outburst |
impunity | exempt from punishment |
incoherent | garbled |
incipient | initial stage |
incongruous | inappropriate |
idigent | homeless |
inert | unmoving |
interminable | unending |
interpid | courageous |
inundate | overwhelm |
laconic | concise |
landmark | significant |
meticulous | precise |
obviate | preclude |
ominous | threatening |
ostentatious | conspicuous |
paradox | self-contradictory |
paroxysm | violent outburst |
paucity | scarcity |
pertinent | relevant |
peruse | read thoroughly |
precluded | prevent |
precocious | advanced |
prognosticate | predict future event |
promulgate | publish |
rampant | widespread |
recant | take back |
relegate | demote |
remuneration | reward |
repudiate | reject with denial |
salient | prominent |
schism | spirit |
scurrilous | vulgar |
sinecure | easy job |
stentorian | loud, powerful voice |
subjugated | enslave |
succumb | yield, esp. death |
surreptitious | secret |
thwart | prevent success |
truncated | shorten |
ubiquitous | omnipresent |
viable | practical |
virulent | poisonous |
voracious | exceedingly eager |