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vocb #7
Question | Answer |
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Abhor | to regard with extereme repungance;to detest utterly;to loathe |
Accolade | praise,an award |
ASectic | one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation;absent in luxury |
Bequeath | to hand down,to give or leave in a will |
Charlatan | one who claims to know something that he does not,a quack |
Conflagration | a large fire |
Dearth | a lack, a scarcity |
Diffidence | shyness,reserve,unassertiveness |
Effervescent | showing high spirt |
Ethereal | heavenly,unusally delicate,light,lacking material substance,intangible |
Expunge | to remove,to erase |
Guile | deceitfulness,duplicity |
Implausible | not believeable |
Incongruity | nonconformity,disagreement,incompatibility |
Insularuty | qualities of an island;narrow-mindedness of opinion |
Morsoe | being sullen or gloomy |
Placate | to appease or to pacify by making concession |
Poigaatnt | piercing,incisive,and keen |
Provincial | lacking sophistication,narrrow-minded |
Reiterate | to repeat |
Spontaneous | having no external cause,acting impulse |
Synthesis | combing parts into a whole |
Toxic | poisonous |
Vigilant | very alert,watchful |
Voluble | ability to use words easily,fluent and glib |