Expand Vocabulary (1-40)

Question 1

Mellifluous

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Sweet Musical, Pleasant to hear.

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Tessellate

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(Shapes/ Polygons) that fit together without gaps overlapping.

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Gestalt

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An organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.

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Irate

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Feeling or characterized by great anger.

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Perspicacity

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Shrewdness, having ready insight into things

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Homonculus

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Very small human or humanoid creature.

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Esoteric

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Intended or likely to be understood by few people.

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Invigilate

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Supervise candidates during an exam.

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Acquiesce

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Except something reluctantly but without protest.

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Chinoiserie

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Imitation – evocative of Chinese motives in Western art.

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Pedantic

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Being showy of knowledge, often in a boring manner but also a narrow often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules.

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

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Facsimile

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A copy or reproduction of an old book as true to original sources possible.

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Amorous

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Showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.

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Seditious

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Inciting or causing people to rebel against authority.

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Sycophant

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A person who acts obsequiously toward someone important to gain favor/advantage – insincere flatter.

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Pagen

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A person who worshiped many gods or goddesses.

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Contrition

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State of feeling remorseful and penitent.

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Heliotrope

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A variable color averaging a moderate to reddish purple.

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Niggler

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Someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way harsh – unfair judgment.

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Crofter

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A person who farms a craft – a fenced area of land

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Detumescence

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Process of subsiding from a state of tension swelling especially sexual arousal

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Synecdoche

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Figure speech – part represents the whole

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Fulcrum

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The point on which a lever rests

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Exegesis

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Critical explanation of the text.

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Surfeited

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Consuming too much of something, don’t want anymore.

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Sepulchral

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Relating to a tomb – gloomy

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Pundit

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An expert

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Anhedonic

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Inability to experience pleasure.

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Salubrious

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Health giving/healthy

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Prescient

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Showing knowledge of events before they take place

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Nadir

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Lowest Point

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Cupidity

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Greed for money & possessions

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Purloin

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Steal

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Hapless

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Unfortunate (of a person)

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Tenet

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Opinion, belief, or principle

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Temerity

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Excessive Confidence or boldness; audacity.

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Isthmus

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Strip of land connecting two landmasses

Question 39

Apocryphal

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(Story/Statement) or doubtful authenticity, although widely believed to be true.