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ENG Vocab List One
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to pass into or through every part of | Permeate |
| to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie | Prevaricate |
| to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc. | Ostracize |
| an intervening time; interval; meantime | Interim |
| intended to entrap or beguile; stealthily treacherous or deceitful | Insidious |
| fond of the company of others; sociable | Gregarious |
| the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference | Insouciance |
| situated or occurring between the stars | Interstellar |
| to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound | Insulation |
| a person who intercedes | Intercessor |
| extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous | Nefarious |
| incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable | Inscrutable |
| to quell, crush, or end by force | Stifle |
| of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily | Diurnal |
| objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome | Officious |
| a chronological account of the birth and development of a particular word or element of a word, often delineating its spread from one language to another and its evolving changes in form and meaning | Etymology |
| the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling | Gyration |
| with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval | Askance |
| a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group | Stereotype |
| intellectuals considered as a group or class, especially as acultural, social, or political elite | Intelligentsia |