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Finals Eng-I Vocab
Groups 1 through 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abeyance | (n) temporary inactivity; suspension |
| catharsis | (n) purification, purging, cleansing of pent-up emotion that brings spiritual renewal or release from tension |
| dearth | (n) an inadequate supply; lack; scarcity |
| guile | (n) deceitful cunning, duplicity, trickery |
| impasse | (n) a predicament affording no obvious escape; deadlock |
| lethargy | (n) sluggishness; drowsiness; dullness |
| novice | (n) beginner; amateur |
| quagmire | (n) 1. swamp or bog 2. difficult, precarious, or entrapping position/ predicament |
| rancor | (n) hatred; ill-will; resentment |
| subterfuge | (n) deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, evade |
| aberration | (n) departing substantially from the standard or normal state; deviation; abnormality |
| affinity | (n) natural liking for; an attraction to |
| affluence | (n) abundance of wealth |
| alienation | (n) withdrawing or separation of a person or affections from an object or position of former attachment; estrangement due to hostility or mistrust |
| dichotomy | (n) division into two exclusive or contradictory groups or entities; something with seemingly contradictory qualities |
| empathy | (n) identification with the feelings of others |
| enigma | (n) something hard to understand or explain; puzzle; inscrutable or mysterious person |
| enmity | (n) active and typically mutual hatred; hostility; antagonism; animosity |
| fiasco | (n) a complete failure |
| quintessence | (n) the essence of a thing in its purest and more concentrated form; the most typical example or representative |
| abhor | (v) to regard with extreme repugnance; loath; hate |
| alleviate | (v) to relieve, lessen; to make more bearable; ease; reduce |
| ambivalence | (n) simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward an object, person, action |
| banal | (adj) lacking originality; trite; insipid; stale |
| belated | (adj) delayed beyond the usual time; late |
| candid | (adj) frank; honest; sincere |
| clandestine | (adj) marked by or done in secrecy; surreptitious; secret; hidden |
| debilitate | (v) to impair the strength of; enfeeble; weaken |
| trepidation | (n) apprehension; fear |
| vestige | (n) a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something vanished or lost |
| admonish | (v) to warn, disapprove, esp. in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner; to give friendly advice or encouragement to |
| appease | (v) to bring to a state of peace or quiet; calm; allay; pacify |
| cogent | (adj) convincing; pertinent; relevant; valid; persuasive |
| demean | (v) to lower in dignity, status, or reputation; to criticize |
| impede | (v) to interfere with or slow the progress of; to hinder; to obstruct |
| rationalize | (v) to explain away; to justify |
| scrutinize | (v) to examine closely and minutely; inspect; examine |
| sordid | (adj) marked by baseness or grossness; vile; dirty; filthy; wretched; squalid |
| vacillate | (v) to waver in mind, will, or feeling; hesitate in choice of opinion or courses |
| vacuous | (adj) emptied of or lacking content; marked by lack of ideas or intelligence; stupid; inane |
| adulterate | (v) to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| corroborate | (v) to support with evidence or authority; confirm; substantiate; verify |
| dissipate | (v) to cause to spread or scatter and gradually vanish; to spend or use up wastefully; squander |
| eclectic | (adj) composed of elements drawn from various sources; heterogeneous; various |
| extricate | (v) to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty; disentangle; disencumber |
| felicitous | (adj) very well suited or expressed; apt; appropriate |
| fetid | (adj) having a heavy, offensive smell; malodorous |
| inhibit | (v) to prohibit from doing something; to hold in check; restrain; hinder |
| refute | (v) to prove wrong by argument or evidence; to show to be false or erroneous |
| usurp | (v) to seize control of (place, powers) by force or without right; supplant |
| garner | (v) to gather, accumulate, or collect over time; to acquire by effort; to earn |
| imperative | (adj) necessary; essential |
| inundate | (v) to overflow, overwhelm |
| languid | (adj) drooping or flagging from (as if from) exhaustion; weak; sluggish; listless |
| latent | (adj) potential; present and capable of becoming though not now visible or active; dormant; applies to a power or quality that has not yet come forth but may emerge and develop |
| parochial | (adj) limited or narrow in viewpoint; provincial |
| perfunctory | (adj) characterized by routine or superficially; mechanical; lacking in interest or enthusiasm |
| preclude | (v) to exclude, prevent, or make unnecessary; to rule out in advance |
| precocious | (adj) exceptionally early in development; exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age |
| variable | (adj) changeable; able or apt to vary; subject to variation; fickle; inconstant |
| abdicate | (v) to cast off, discard; to relinquish (sovereign power or position) formally; to renounce a throne, dignity, function |
| garrulous | (adj) pointlessly or annoyingly talkative; wordy, rambling |
| heinous | (adj) hatefully or shockingly evil; abominable |
| meticulous | (adj) marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details; careful |
| obsequious | (adj) exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; subservient; humbly obedient |
| tenacious | (adj) unyielding; steadfast; strong |
| turgid | (adj) swollen, inflated; excessively embellished in style or language; bombastic, pompous |
| ubiquitous | (adj) existing or being everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
| vehement | (adj) marked by forceful energy; powerful; intensely emotional; impassioned, fervid; forcibly expressed |
| wary | (adj) marked by keen attention, cunning, and watchful prudence, esp. in detecting and escaping danger |
| astute | (adj) shrewd; quick to understand; intelligent |
| autonomy | (n) self-government; power of self-control |
| belligerent | (adj) hostile; quarrelsome; combative |
| benign | (adj) harmless; mild; gentle; of a type that does not threaten health or life |
| cajole | (v) to persuade or coax with flattery or gentle urging, esp. in the face of reluctance; to deceive with soothing words or false promises |
| capricious | (adj) marked by sudden and seemingly unmotivated action; impulsive, unpredictable, inconstant; erratic |
| circumspect | (adj) careful to consider all circumstance and possible consequences; prudent; cautious |
| depravity | (n) corruption; wickedness; evil; perversity |
| exonerate | (v) to free from blame; to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| fastidious | (adj) having high and often capricious standards; overly difficult to please; showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| acquiesce | (v) to agree or assent to; to submit to |
| coercion | (n) the act, process, or power of restraining or dominating by force; pressure |
| discursive | (adj) rambling; wandering; long-winded |
| ephemeral | (adj) lasting a very short time; transient; short-livee |
| fallacious | (adj) tending to deceive or mislead; delusive; false; mistaken; erroneous |
| gregarious | (adj) sociable; seeking and enjoying the company of others |
| hypothetical | (adj) being or involving a hypothesis (a tentative assumption or concession made for the sake of argument); conjectural |
| immutable | (adj) not susceptible to change; permanent |
| judicious | (adj) having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgement; wise; sensible |
| laud | (v) to praise, honor, extol |
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