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Bolster

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To provide support

Question 1

Assuage

Answer 1

To relieve

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Burgeon

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To grow or develop quickly

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Buttress

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Any prop or support

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Capricious

Answer 4

Subject to unpredictable change

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Catalyst

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A substance that causes a chemical reaction without affecting itself

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Caustic

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Capable of burning or destroying living tissue

Question 7

Desiccate

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To dry thoroughly; to become dried up

Question 8

Divest

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To take away or alienate (a person’s rights)

Question 9

Enervate

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To deprive of force/strength; weaken

Question 10

Ephemeral

Answer 10

Lasting a very short time

Question 11

Eradicate

Answer 11

To remove or destroy utterly

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Inchoate

Answer 12

Not yet complete or fully developed; just begun

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Obdurate

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Stubborn; unmoved by feelings

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Obsequious

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Obedient

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Onerous

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Burdensome or troublesome

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Opprobrium

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A cause or object of disgrace

Question 17

Pedantic

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Overly concerned with minute details, especially in teaching

Question 18

Perjury

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The willful giving of false testimony under oath

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Recalcitrant

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Resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant

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Secrete

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Hide; conceal

Question 21

Specious

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Pleasing to the eye but deceptive; lack real merit

Question 22

Spurious

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Not genuine; counterfeit

Question 23

Vexation

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Irritation or annoyance

Question 24

Abberant

Answer 24

Abnormal; deviating from the normal type