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Mrs.Melvin sat words
Mrs.Melvins sat words by Izik(i'll keep as up to date as possible)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| condone | overlook or excuse |
| chastise | scold or punish |
| denounce | criticize or condemn |
| flippancy | treating a serious situation with arrogant humor or disrespect |
| extol | praise |
| abstruse | confusing; difficult to understand |
| ambivalence | indecision; being pulled in two directions |
| apathetic | lack of interest or concern |
| germane | relevant |
| conviction | someone's strongly held opinion or belief |
| dilatory | to dilly-dally causing; lateness or stalling |
| enhance | to improve or intensify |
| benign | kind hearted; mild |
| effervescence | bubbly or full of life |
| Quell | to calm;pacify |
| Redolent | strongly scented; fragrant |
| Profuse | in large amounts or quantities |
| Partisan | Blindly devoted to a cause or organization |
| precocious | mature at a young age |
| Obsolete | no longer usable; outdated |
| Lucid | easy to understand;transparent;clear |
| Induce | cause to happen; bring about |
| Misconstrue | misunderstand; interpret incorrectly |
| Hierarchy | a system of ranking |
| versatile | having many talents or uses |
| Viscous | a heavy liquid; sticky |
| Wastrel | Someone who wastes their money and resources |
| Innocuous | Harmless; inoffensive |
| Adamant | refusing to change; stubborn, unyielding |
| Amity | friendship |
| Austere | stern; plain;without luxuries |
| Avarice | greed |
| Benevolent | kindhearted; good-natured; generous |
| Cajole | to fool with flattery or false promises; coax; decieve |
| Concise | short and to the point; terse |
| Concur | agree |
| Cupidity | greed; especially for money |
| depleted | emptied, drained, used up |
| Efface | erase |
| Eloquence | powerfully effective speech |
| Enigma | mystery; puzzle |
| Extricate | to free from a trap or difficult situation; to disentangle |
| Garish | flashy; gaudy |
| Harangue | a long lecturing speech |
| Indolent | lazy |
| Infallible | incapable of making a mistake |
| Insipid | dull; flat; without sparkle or flavor |
| Irreverent | disrespectful |
| Juncture | point in time, especially a cruel one; joint or connection |
| Languish | lose energy or motivation; become weak or depressed |
| Legacy | something inherited; either from an ancestor or from the past itself |
| Minute | very small in size |
| Obliterate | remove or destroy completely; erase |
| Opaque | too dark or thick for light to pass through |
| Preclude | prevent; make impossible |
| Prodigious | very large |
| Qualify | to limit the meaning of a previous statement; to modify |
| Recant | take back something you’ve said; withdraw a statement or belief |
| Sardonic | humorous, but humor tinged with sarcasm or disdain; cynical |
| Vilify | defame; attack someone’s reputation |
| Warranted | justified; authorized |
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