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Am Studs Vocab 1
am studs vocab first unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acumen | keen insight |
| Adamant | absolutely firm |
| Anomaly | deviation/out of the ordinary |
| Antipathy | dislike for |
| Apathy | absense of emotion |
| Autonomous | self-governing/independent |
| Banal | uninspired |
| Candor | outspokeness |
| Caprice | an unmotivated decision |
| Castigate | severely criticize |
| Chicanery | trickery |
| Depraved | incorrigibly evil |
| Discursive | rambling |
| Dissonance | discord |
| Dour | sour/gloomy |
| Ebullient | full of enthusiasm |
| Ecstatic | overpowered by delight |
| Enervate | weaken |
| Engender | cause/produce |
| Ephemeral | short-lived |
| Esoteric | hidden |
| Expiate | make amends for |
| Fiasco | complete, utter failure |
| Flaccid | weak |
| Laconic | brief |
| Latent | unused |
| Lathargic | sluggish |
| Lugubrious | rediculously mournful |
| Moribund | dying/ending |
| Myopic | near-sighted |
| Obstreperous | unrully |
| Parsimonious | excessively frugal |
| Perfidious | traitorous |
| Perfunctory | mechanical |
| Perspicuity | clearness |
| Polemic | controversy |
| Procrastinate | postpone |
| Prototype | model/pattern |
| Regressive | going backward |
| Sagacity | wisdom |
| Sententious | full of old sayings |
| Tacit | unexpressed but understood |
| Tenuous | thin/flimsy |
| Turgid | swollen |
| Ubiquitous | everywhere at the same time |
| Unctuous | oily/overly suave |
| Vapid | empty/dull |
| Voluptuous | sensual |
| Wry | indirect |
| Assiduous | constant/persistent |