list D

Question 1

aberrant

Answer 1

adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar. Departing from the right, normal, or usual course. Deviating from the ordinary.

Question 2

anachronism

Answer 2

n. Eccentric/Dissimilar: an error in chronology in which a person, object, is assigned a date or period other than the correct one.

Question 3

anomalous

Answer 3

adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar: deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form or rule. irregular.

Question 4

discrete

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adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar: apart or detached from other; separate; distinct

Question 5

eclectic

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adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar: selecting or choosing from various source. Not following any one system.

Question 6

esoteric

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adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar: understand by a few.

Question 7

iconoclast

Answer 7

n. eccentric/dissimilar: a person who attacks cherished belief. a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.

Question 8

abash

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v. Embarrass: to destroy the self-confidence, pose, make ashamed

Question 9

chagrin

Answer 9

n. Embarrass: a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation

Question 10

compunction

Answer 10

n. Embarrass: a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain.

Question 11

contrition

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n. Embarrass: regret - sincere penitence or remorse

Question 12

diffidence

Answer 12

n. Embarrass: lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy

Question 13

expiate

Answer 13

v. Embarrass: to atone for; make amends or reparation for. redeem

Question 14

foible

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n. Embarrass: a minor weakness or failing of character

Question 15

gaucherie

Answer 15

n. Embarrass: lack of social grace, sensitivity

Question 16

rue

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v. Embarrass: to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly

Question 17

Equitable

Answer 17

adj. Equal: fairness, just and right

Question 18

equity

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n. Equal

Question 19

tantamount

Answer 19

adj. Equal: equivalent, as in value

Question 20

apocryphal

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adj. Falsehood: of doubtful authorship. False, spurious

Question 21

canard

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n. Falsehood: a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report or rumor

Question 22

chicanery

Answer 22

n. Falsehood: trickery or deception

Question 23

dissemble

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v. Falsehood: to give a false or misleading appearance to

Question 24

duplicity

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n. falsehood: deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same manner.

Question 25

equivocate

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v. Falsehood: to use ambiguous or unclear expression.

Question 26

erroneous

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adj. Falsehood: containing error; mistaken

Question 27

ersatz

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adj. Falsehood: serving as substitute; synthetic; artificial

Question 28

fallacious

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adj. falsehood

Question 29

feigned

Answer 29

adj. falsehood: pretended: sham: assumed; fictitious; disguised

Question 30

guile

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n. Falsehood. insidious cunning in attaining a goal.

Question 31

mendacious/mendacity

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adj,n. untruthfulness; tendency to lie

Question 32

perfidy

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n. falsehood: deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness

Question 33

prevaricate

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v. falsehood: to speak falsely or misleadingly

Question 34

specious

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adj. Falsehood: apparently good or right though lacking real merit

Question 35

spurious

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adj. Falsehood: not genuine, authentic or true. not from the claimed. pretended

Question 36

conjugal

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adj. Family: pertaining to the relation of husband and wife

Question 37

consanguine

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adj. Family: having the same ancestry or descent related by blood.

Question 38

distaff

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n. Family: mother's side

Question 39

endogamous

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n. Family: marriage within a specific tribe

Question 40

filial

Answer 40

adj. Family: noting or having the relation of a child to a parent

Question 41

fratricide

Answer 41

n. a person who kills his or her brother

Question 42

progenitor

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n. family: a biologically related ancestor

Question 43

scion

Answer 43

n. family: a descendant

Question 44

ardor/ardent

Answer 44

n/adj, favoring/not impartial: great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. intense devotion, eagerness or enthusiasm, zeal

Question 45

doctrinaire

Answer 45

n. favoring/not impartial: a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical consideration. an impractical theorist

Question 46

fervid

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adj. favoring/not impartial: heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm.

Question 47

partisan

Answer 47

n. an adherent or supporter of a person or group.

Question 48

tendentious

Answer 48

adj. favoring/not impoartial: having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose

Question 49

zealot

Answer 49

n. favoring: fanatic.

Question 50

absolve

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v. Forgive: to free from guilt or blame or their consequences.

Question 51

acquit

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v. Forgive: to relieve from a charge of fault or crime.

Question 52

exculpate

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v. Forgive: to clear from a charge of guilt or fault

Question 53

exonerate

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v. Forgive: to clear, as of an accusation.

Question 54

expiate

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v. Forgive: to atone for; make amends or reparation for

Question 55

palliate

Answer 55

v. Forgive: to relieve or lesson without curing, mitigate; alleviate

Question 56

redress

Answer 56

v. Forgive: relief from wrong or inury, to set right, remedy or repair

Question 57

vindicate

Answer 57

v. Forgive: to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion.