300 Toefl Words 7 - Words 221-260
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| show | A wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition - felt nostalgia for the old homestead.
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| show | Generally known and talked of; especially, widely and unfavorably known - a notorious gambler.
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| show | A beginner - conducted himself in politics like a novice. Synonyms: tyro, neophyte. Antonym: virtuoso
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| show | 1. Forgetful; absent-minded 2. lacking active conscious knowledge or awareness —usually used with of or to - walking oblivious of his surroundings. Synonyms: unmindful, heedless, abstracted
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| show | A persistent feeling, idea, activity, etc., which dominates a person; the state of being exclusively preoccupied by a fixed idea - Now that he has learned bowling, it has become his obsession. Synonyms: mania, infatuation (a foolish passion), monomania
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| show | No longer in use or no longer useful - an obsolete word, not even included by most dictionaries. Synonyms: archaic, antiquated
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| show | All-powerful - an omnipotent despot.
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| show | Burden; duty; obligation - bore the onus of his difficult office creditably.
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| show | To restate the meaning of a passage in other words - paraphrased the poem in a few lines of prose.
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| show | A humorous imitation of an author's style and mannerisms - wrote a parody on Kipling's "Gung Din." . Synonym: burlesque
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| show | A dull and commonplace remark - bored people by his pompous phrases and platitudes. Synonyms: bromide, truism, axiom
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| show | Unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size; dull - a ponderous speech, extremely boring.
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| show | (1) Very steep - a precipitous cliff. (2) Descending rapidly - a precipitous decline in popularity.
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| show | To foretell from signs or symptoms - The Weather Bureau prognosticates daily. Synonyms: presage, portend, augur, forebode
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| show | The quality or state of being of being near or close-worked in close proximity to his home. Synonyms :propinquity, vicinity Antonym: remoteness
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| show | Inflicting, or concerned with, punishment - took punitive measures against deserters.
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| show | Extravagantly romantic or idealistic; highly impractical - a quixotic scheme that can never materialize. Synonyms: utopian, visionary, fantastic
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| show | One who advocates extreme basic changes - The reform movement was led by a radical. (adj.): very different from the usual or traditional - radical measures adopted to meet the emergency. Antonym:(noun and adj.) conservative
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