Hitlist 3 Flashcards by sonia ahmadi

Acumen

Sharpness

Cleverness

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Adulterate

to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Amalgamate

to combine several elements into a whole

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Archaic

outdates

associated with an earlier primitive time

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Aver

to state as a fact

to declare or assert

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Bolster

to provide support or reinforcement

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Bombastic

pompous

grandiloquent

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Pompous

arrogent

egotistic

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Diatribe

a harsh denunciation(criticism)

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Dissemble

to disguise or conceal

to mislead

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Eccentric

departing from norms or conventions

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Endemic

characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

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Evanescent

tending to disapear like vapor; vanishing

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Exacerbate

to make worse or more severe

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Fervent

greatly emotional or zealous

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Fortuitous

happening by accident or chance

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Germane

relevant to the subject at hand

appropriete in subject matter

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Grandiloquence

pompous speech or expression

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Hackneyed

rendered trite or commonplace by frequent urage

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Halcyon

calm and peaceful

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Hedonism

devotion to pleasurable pursuits esp to the pleasures of the senses

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Hegemony

the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others

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Iconoclast

one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

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Idolatrous

given to intense or excessive devotion to something

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Impassive

revealing no emotion

Imperturbable

Calm and collected

Implacable

not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

Impunity

immunity from punishment or penalty

Inchoate

in an initial stage, not fully formed

Infelicitous

unfortunate | inappropriate

Insipid

without taste or flavor lacking in spirit bland

Loquacious

extremely talkative

Luminous

characterized by brightness and the emission of light

Malevolent

having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred

Malleable

capable of being shaped or formed, tractable,pliable

Mendacity

the condition of being untruthful | dishonesty

Meticulous

characterized by extreme care and precision | attentive to detail

Misanthrope

one who hates all other humans

Mitigate

to make or become less severe or intense | to moderate

Obdurate

unyielding hardhearted intractable

Obsequious

exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

Occlude

to obstruct or block

Opprobrium

disgrace contempt scorn

Pedagogy

the profession or principle of teaching or instruction

Pedantic

overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education showoffish about ones knowledge

Penury

poverty | destitution

Pervasive

having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout

Pine

to yearn intensely to languish to lose vigor

Pirate

to illegally use or reproduce

Pith

the essential or central part

Pithy

precise and brief

Placate

to appease | to calm by making concessions

Platitude

a superficial remark, esp, one offered as meaningful

Plummet

to plunge or drop straight down

Polemical

controversial | argumentative

Prodigal

recklessly wasteful extravagant profuse lavish

Profuse

given or coming forth abundantly | extravagent

Proliferate

to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly

Queries

questions inquiries doubts in the mind reservations

Querulous

prone to complaining or gumbling | peevish

Rancorous

characterized by bitter long lasting resentment

Recalcitrant

obstinately defiant of authority | difficult to manage

Repudiate

to refuse to have anything to do with | to disown

Rescind

to invalidate to retract to repeal

Reverent

marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect

Rhetoric

the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion

Salubrious

promoting health or well being

Solvent

able to meet financial obligations | able to dissolve another substance

Specious

seeming true but actually fallacious misleadingly attractive plausible but false

Spurious

lacking authenticity or validity, false

Subpoena

a court order requiring appearance/testimony

Succinct

brief; concise

Superfluous

exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

Surfeit

an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess

Tenacity

persistent determination

Tenuous

having little substance or strength | flimsy; weak

Tirade

a long and critical speech; a harsh denunciation

Transient

fleeting; passing quickly; brief

Zealous

fervent;ardent;impassioned; devoted to a cause

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