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vocab-100
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| commiserate | to express pity or sympathy for |
| fabricate | to construct, create, or assemble. Make up or invent |
| idealism (opp) | realism |
| Idealism | the pursuit of or belief in noble ideals, principles, and values. |
| munificent (opp) | parsimonious |
| munificent | to show great generosity |
| redolent | giving off a strong, usually pleasant odor |
| baffle | to cause to be confused or frustrated. bewildered. perplex. confound. |
| facet | an angle or aspect, as of a problem or situation. |
| ideology | the body of beliefs, goals, and symbols that characterize a particular group |
| mundane | common and everyday. ordinary. banal. |
| redress | a correction or adjustment esp. of a wrong done |
| balm (opp) | irritant |
| balm | any soothing, healing ointment or influence |
| facetious | not meant seriously. humorous or frivolous |
| idiom | the unique grammar of combining words of a particular dialect to form a figure of speech that may not be translated word for word |
| motivation | something that causes a desire or need to act in a particular way |
| redundant (opp) | concise |
| banal | lacking originality or liveliness. disappointingly ordinary. trite. |
| fallacious | containing, or based on, an unsound argument. in error. |
| ignite(opp) | quench |
| iignite | to set on fire. to stir up. |
| mosaic | a pattern or picture made with many small tiles or stones. any assemblage of independent pieces making a whole |
| refine | to purify of all coarse or low elements. to make subtle distinctions in lag. or thought |