English vocab final

Question 1

create and preform

Answer 1

improvise

Question 2

ghost or spirit

Answer 2

specter

Question 3

childish, immature

Answer 3

infantile

Question 4

an official order

Answer 4

edict

Question 5

to support for an extended period of time

Answer 5

sustain

Question 6

attractive in pictures

Answer 6

photogenic

Question 7

to not do something, refrain

Answer 7

abstain

Question 8

giving off light without heat

Answer 8

phosphorescent

Question 9

to bring back to rightness, order, or morality

Answer 9

formative

Question 10

a figure constructed in mockery

Answer 10

effigy

Question 11

natural ability

Answer 11

aptitude

Question 12

dependent upon

Answer 12

relative

Question 13

desire to avoid, disgust

Answer 13

repulsion

Question 14

attitude or mood

Answer 14

disposition

Question 15

plan of action, purpose

Answer 15

agenda

Question 16

a speech given before an event

Answer 16

proglogue

Question 17

unskilled, clumsy

Answer 17

inept

Question 18

warlike mood or attitude

Answer 18

belligerence

Question 19

one who loves books

Answer 19

bibliophile

Question 20

claim made that someone else has done something wrong

Answer 20

allegation

Question 21

warlike in nature

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bellicose

Question 22

charitable donation to a public cause

Answer 22

philanthropy

Question 23

occurring before a war

Answer 23

antebellum

Question 24

so quiet as to be impossible to hear

Answer 24

inaudible

Question 25

comparable to , like

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analogous

Question 26

fair, just

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equitable

Question 27

warmly friendly and polite

Answer 27

cordial

Question 28

to swear off, renounce

Answer 28

abjure

Question 29

breaking of a legal oath

Answer 29

perjury

Question 30

giving total attention to

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rapt

Question 31

government by a religious leader

Answer 31

theocracy

Question 32

unbeatable

Answer 32

indomitable

Question 33

an idea important to a system of beliefs

Answer 33

precept

Question 34

to make less painful or dangerous

Answer 34

alleviate

Question 35

a cut made in order to get inside something

Answer 35

incision

Question 36

to conceal the truth

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dissemble

Question 37

related to a metaphor, compared to

Answer 37

metaphorical

Question 38

unable to make choices

Answer 38

indecisive

Question 39

making someone experienced

Answer 39

sophisticate

Question 40

medicine

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antibiotic

Question 41

be enrolled at a college or university

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matriculate

Question 42

a person who lives outside their native country

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expatriate

Question 43

study of genes given from ancestors

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genealogy

Question 44

improving the condition

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revival

Question 45

apparently kind but betrays a feeling of superiority

Answer 45

patronize

Question 46

very small

Answer 46

miniscule

Question 47

a thing from which a person, plant, or animal originates from

Answer 47

progenitor

Question 48

confer ending fame upon

Answer 48

immortalize