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vocabulary # 6
Question | Answer |
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Antiquated | obsolete,out of fashion,no longer usable |
Arable | fit for plowing,tillable |
Ascendancy | domination; growing power |
Atrophy | to watse away,to wither |
Clandstine | secret |
Conciliate | to reconcile,to pacify,to renew friendship |
Cursory | superficial,casual,hastily done |
Derision | scoffing at,mockery,ridicule |
Enmity | absolute haterd |
Extricate | to free,to disentagle |
Forbearance | patience,lenience |
Frivolous | lacking in seriousness or importance |
Garrulous | talkative,rambling |
Impetuous | violent,hasty,rash,implusive |
Industrious | skillfully busy or occupied |
Infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind,vicious,notriously bad |
Insolence | insulting or contemptous behavior |
Levity | excessive frivolity,flippancy |
Oblivion | state of being forgotten |
Paradoxical | something that appears false or contradictory |
Perjury | false testimony under oath |
Rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will,enmity |
Sycophant | a self-serving flatterer,brownnoser |
Vacillating | changing,fluctuating |
Vivid | bright,distanct,and clear |