Kaplan Practice Test Vocabulary Flashcards by Grace Yeung

Pellucid

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Pugnacity

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Obstreperous

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Panoply

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Riparian

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Transitory

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Quiescence

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Prevaricates

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Disabuse

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Infamy

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Serendipity

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Aspersion

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Decry

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Remonstrate

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Vituperate

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Disparage

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Calumny

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Castigate

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Excoriate

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Compendium

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Terse

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Clemency

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Largesse

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Magnanimous

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Munificent

The opposite of Maleficent! | (Maleficent's 'good twin' sister.)

Limpid

Lucid

Antipathy

Candour (Candor)

Deprecate

Specious

Deride

Obdurate

Belie

Allay

Assuage

Prescience

Abstruse

Recondite

Bemuse

Innocuous

Ineluctable

Incommensurate

Saprophyte

Enervate

Circumspection

Bucolic

Peccadilloes

Froward

Eclectic

Arcane

Enigmatic

Obscure

Edifice

Implacable

Fecund

Fervid

Inimical

Lassitude

Laconic

Exigent

Impetuous

Bombastic

Sanguine

Promulgate

Callow

Ingenuous

Disingenuous

Dour

Ersatz

Figurehead

Phlegmatic

Phlegmatic, Choleric, Sanguine and Melancholic

**Sanguine** personality type is described primarily as being highly talkative, enthusiastic, active, and social. Sanguines tend to be more extroverted and enjoy being part of a crowd; they find that being social, outgoing, and charismatic is easy to accomplish.[2][3] Individuals with this personality have a hard time doing nothing and engage in more risk seeking behaviour.[2] **Choleric** individuals tend to be more extroverted. They are described as independent, decisive, and goal-oriented, and ambitious. These combined with their dominant, result-oriented outlook make them natural leaders. In Greek, Medieval and Renaissance thought, they were also violent, vengeful, and short-tempered[16] **Melancholic** individuals tend to be analytical and detail-oriented, and they are deep thinkers and feelers. They are introverted and try to avoid being singled out in a crowd.[2] A melancholic personality leads to self-reliant individuals who are thoughtful, reserved, and often anxious.[2] They often strive for perfection within themselves and their surroundings, which leads to tidy and detail oriented behavior.[2] **Phlegmatic** individuals tend to be relaxed, peaceful, quiet, and easy-going.[2] They are sympathetic and care about others, yet they try to hide their emotions. Phlegmatic individuals also are good at generalizing ideas or problems to the world and making compromises.[2]

Facetious

Apogee

Acrimony

Sinecure

Impugn

Interpolate

Gainsay (Gainsaid)

Desultory

Parsimonious

Truculent

Truce

Ostentatious

Dimunitive

Like 'diminuendo'

Mercenary

Insipid

Sapid

Prolocutor

Despot

Ardent

Perfunctory

Recalcitrant

Repudiate

Impecunious

Indigent

Predilection

Circumlocution

Equanimous

Concerted

Hackneyed

Polemical

Skulk

Diluvial

E.g. 'antediluvial' means 'before the Flood'

Incipient

Nascent

Levy (Levied)

Taciturn

Tacit

Imperious

Ignominy

Lugubrious

I'm very sad I have to 'lug u' around all day.

Poignant

Verisimilitude

Hortatory

Pre-eminent

Mendacity

Obtuse

Explicating

Presage

Vapid

Prolix (Prolixity)

Chicanery

Subterfuge

Eminent

Restive

Clamorous

Expurgate

Grandiloquent

Perspicacious

Vitreous

Nonplussed (Nonplus)

Non plus - No more can be said/or done!

Propitious

Vociferous

Voc = voice, ferous = furious/on fire/iron-like

Somnolent

Baleful

Japery (Jape)

Diffident (Diffidence)

Temerity

Warning! Does **_not_** mean the same as 'timid'.

Approbate

Salient

Expunge

Appropriate

Transmute

Jocular

Sounds like 'jouer' - to play.

Dolorous

Mollified (Mollify)

Paragon

Stalwart

Irrefragable

Paean

Panegyric

Diatribe

Harangue

Exculpate

Lionized

Intractable

Antithesis

Beachhead

Vicissitudes

Toady

Sagacious

Wanton

Replete

Mannered

Stilted, artificial. Think of an 'affected manner'.

Pare

Meretricious

Credulous

How credible something is depends on how credulous your audience is.

Unequivocal

To be certain, not ambiguous.

Missive

Flag (v.)

Overwrought

Pariah

Indolent

Potentate

Alex was much kinder before he assumed the role of *potentate*.

Pusillanimous

Rejoinder

Trying to 'rejoin' the conversation as quickly as possible as it has been broken by someone else's insult.

Repast

Distaff

The lazy husband refused to cook dinner for his wife, joking that the duty belonged to the *distaff's* side. Synonym: maternal

Scintilla

Plastic

Martinet

Contumacious

Anodyne

Leery

To 'leer' is to look at something 'askance', i.e. 'look at them funny', or to look at them unpleasantly or lasciviously.

Abstemious

As Alyce is a vegetarian, she was able to eat only an abstemious meal at the Texas Steakhouse.

Ignoble

Trenchant

Orotund

Ardour (ardor)

Précis

Ebullient

Terrestrial

Earthly, down-to-earth, commonplace

Ford (v.)

To traverse by wading.

Investiture

Idiosyncrasy

Peculiarity of temperament. "It's my idio-idio-idiosyncrasy," spluttered the verbose albeit stuttering goose to Charlotte the spider.

Irascible

Vernal

Like 'vert' - 'green' in French. Bea basked in the balmy *vernal* breezes, happy that winter was coming to an end.

Gambol

From her office, Amy watched enviously as the playful puppies gambolled around Central Park.

Intransigent

The professor was *intransigent* onthe deadline, insisting that everyone turn the assignment in at the same time.

Vim

Pedant

Deference

Foment

The rebels tried to *foment* revolution through their attacks on the government.

Soporific

Noisome

Craven

Perfidious

I'd rather perforate my head with a bullet than trust Perfidia with my heart - or any other item of mine. She certainly is perfidious in love and life.

Jingoism

Acidulous

Juncture

Ostensible

Insurrection

Gradation

Puerile

Requite

Interregnum

Declivity

Vestige

Abeyance

Equivocate

Pastiche

Misanthrope

Sportive

Sardonic

Estimable

Turgid

E.g. skin turgor, turgid plant

Peregrinate

Chauvinist

Hoary

Ossify

Malediction

Opposite of **bene**diction.

Acme

Same meaning as 'zenith' or 'peak'.

Cosset

Maelstrom

Accretion

Coalesce

Dilatory

Hermetic

Xenophobia

Pallid

Officious

Opprobium

Proclivity

Redress

Dither

Alacrity

Inure

Rococo

Upbraid

Cabal

Ribald

Phalanx

Whimsical

Fractious

Levity

Lachrymose

Mercurial

Can mean quick, shrewd and unpredictable. Synonyms include clever, crafty, volatile, whimsical.

Paradox

Torpor

Aerie, Eyrie

Intrepid

Guile

Voluble

Blight

Enumerate

Usury

Husband

Eschew

Zephyr

Dissemble

Semblance = seeming to likeness Dis = not

Lissom(e)

Obsequious

Abjure

Rustic

Maudlin

Stratagem

Esoteric

Surfeit

Propriety

Propitiate

Spartan

Lapidary

Raconteur

Peripatetic

Mitigate

Belfry

Sybarite

Affected

**Phony; artificial** The *affected* hairdresser spouted French phrases, though she had never been to France. Synonyms: insincere; pretentious, put-on

Fetid

Nettle

Imbue

Venerate

Surly

E.g. When asked to clean the windshield, the *surly* gas station attendant tossed a dirty rag at the customer and walked away.

Prattle

Demagogue

Pulchritude

Variegated

Fallow

Amortize (Amortise)

Exponent

Supplant

Salubrious

Arbitrate

Pithy

Profound or substantial yet concise, succinct and to the point.

Oblique

Indirect or evasive; misleading or devious. "Usually open and friendly, Reynaldo has been behaving in a curiously *oblique* manner lately."

Diurnal

Active or occurring during the day.

Vacillate

Forestall

Itinerant

Droll

Penury

Glib

Endemic

Blithe

Legerdemain

The little boy thought his *legerdemain* was working on his mother, but she in fact knew about every hidden toy and stolen cookie.

Wily

Yet again, the *wily* coyote managed to elude the ranchers who wanted to capture it.

Elegy

W.H. Auden wrote a very moving poem as an elegy to commemorate the passing of Yeats.

Cupidity

Jettison

Libertine

Inchoate

Curmudgeon

Augur

An 'augury' is a prophecy.

Dilettante

Invective

Stentorian

Probity

Axiom

Also means the same as aphorism, apothegm.

Abase

Umbrage

Invidious

It is cruel and *invidious* for parents to play favourites with their children.

Coterie

Politic

She was wise to curb he tongue and was able to explain her problem to the judge in a respectful and *politic* manner.

Languid

Tawdry

Bilk

Zealot

Arrogate

Solecism

Obviate

Incarnadine

Doctrinaire

Capricious

Slake

Inculcate

Effigy

Loquacious

Latent

Philistine

Euphony

Stolid

Unemotional; lacking sensitivity. E.g. the prisoner appeared *stolid* and unaffected by the judge's harsh sentence.

Onerous

Tyro

E.g. An obvious *tyro* at the salsa, Millicent received no invitations to dance.

Edify

Nominal

Pejorative

Rhetoric

Banal

Bevy

A *bevy* of teenage girls surrounded Justin Bieber's limousine.

Canard

Austere

Winsome

Multifarious

Ken opened the hotel room window, letting in the *multifarious* noises of the great city.

Posit

Burgeon

Burnish

Sedition

Querulous

Frenetic

Frantic

Lampoon

Nadir

Machination

Fatuous

August

Panache

Iconoclast

Mendicant

Sentient

Larceny

Reticent

Florid

Verdant

Can also mean naive, unsophisticated or inexperienced.

Kudos

Anachronism

Numismatics

Jill's passion for *numismatics* has resulted in an impressive collection of coins from all over the world.

Quotidian

Disparate

Engender

Dogmatic

Aberrant

Dirge

Unequivocal

Demur

Fortuitous

Unconscionable

Scion

Eulogy

Profligate

Mar

Magnate

Encomium

Effrontery

Opine

Imprecation

Bolster

Dyspeptic

Caustic

Sobriquet

Militate

Wan

Assuage

Mendacious

Garrulous

Laud

Livid

Hapless

Neophyte

Pugilism

Ingrate

Bonhomie

Catholic

Urbane

Fastidious

Punctilious

Paladin

Tableau

Obloquy

Vitiate

Emendation

Surreptitious

Consonant

Irksome

Salacious

Spurious

Reliquary

Adumbration

'A dumb picture of something.'

Malapropism

Aphorism

Spate

Dearth

Scatological

Abrogate

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