Monthly Vocab Quiz

Question 0

Resembling or having the properties of oil / marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality

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Oleaginous

Question 1

To contend against; oppose

Answer 1

Repugn

Question 2

1. One accused with or charged with a crime
2. One guilty of a crime or fault
3. The source or cause of a problem

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Culprit

Question 3

To make more violent, bitter, or severe

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Exacerbate

Question 4

1. The action, process, or fact of spreading apart

2. A divergence of opinion

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Divarication

Question 5

1. Of, relating to, or connected with the sense of smell

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Olfactory

Question 6

1. Dominant influence or authority of others

2. The social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence by a dominant group

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Hegemony

Question 7

1. The use of a word to modify or govern syntacticly two are more words with only one of which it formally agrees in number, gender, or case

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Syllepsis

Question 8

1. A long discussion or meeting usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication
2. Idle talk, misleading or beguiling speech

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Palaver

Question 9

Extremely sharp or keen

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Rapier

Question 11

The world viewed as a community in which distance and isolation have been dramatically reduced by electronic media

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Global village

Question 12

Immeasurably or incalculably small

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Infinitesimal

Question 13

Great haste

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Posthaste

Question 14

One who attempts to put into effect an abstract doctrine or theory with little or no regard for practical difficulties

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Doctrinaire

Question 15

1. An opinion or decision that is based on careful thought
2. The act or process of forming an opinion or making a decision after careful thought
3. The ability to make good decisions about what should be done

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Judgement

Question 16

Brought back - used postpositively

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Redux

Question 17

1. Respect or honor

2. Something that is done to honor someone or something

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Homage

Question 18

1. Hopeful or romantic in a way that is not practical

2. Foolishly impractical, especially in the pursuit of ideals

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Quixotic

Question 19

Of or relating to trees

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Arboreal

Question 20

A theory in philosophy that your own existence is the only thing that is real or can be known

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Solipsism

Question 21

An original model on which something is patterned: archetype

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Prototype

Question 22

Conspicuous; especially bad

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Egregious

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Prevalent especially to an increasing degree

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Rife

Question 24

Volunteering ones services where they are neither asked nor needed

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Officious

Question 25

A melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation in a music drama

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Leitmotif

Question 26

Second to last

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Penultimate

Question 27

One who is extremely fond of shopping

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Shopaholic

Question 28

To laugh at contemptuously

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Deride

Question 29

Having a smooth rich flow, filled with something sweet

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Mellifluous

Question 30

To assert without proof or before proving

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Allege

Question 31

Not able to be compared

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Incommensurable

Question 32

The ringing or sounding of bells, a jingling or tinkling sound as if of bells

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Tintinnabulation

Question 33

A going or marching: advance; especially: a military advance | A difficult and dangerous military retreat

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Anabasis

Question 34

Not open to question, indisputable

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Incontrovertible

Question 35

Lacking in candor; also: giving a false appearance of simple frankness: calculating

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Disingenuous

Question 36

Anxiety arising from awareness of guilt Distress of mind over an anticipated action or result A twinge of misgiving: scruple

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Compunction

Question 37

Occurring every day Belonging to each day: everyday Commonplace, ordinary

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Quotidian

Question 38

To pull up by the roots | To do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots

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Eradicate

Question 39

A landscape method developed especially for arid and semiarid climates that utilizes water conserving techniques (such as the use of drought-tolerant plants, mulch, and efficient irrigation)

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Xeriscape

Question 40

Popular sentiment

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Vox populi

Question 41

Deliberately affected: theatrical | Of or relating to actors, acting, or the theater

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Histrionic

Question 42

Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of Thraso: bragging, boastful

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Thrasonical

Question 43

Having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light

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Chatoyant

Question 44

Sort, kind

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Ilk

Question 45

Attempt to ingratiate oneself | To curry favor with (as by flattery)

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Apple-polish

Question 46

Producing wealth, profitable

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Lucrative

Question 47

To win over by wiles: entice | To acquire by ingenuity or flattery: wangle

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Inveigle

Question 48

The character of a language | An intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate

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Sprachgefühl

Question 49

Perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion Not easily overcome or removed

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Obstinate

Question 50

To have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred); also: claim Intend purpose

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Purport

Question 51

To draw or paint the surface | To outline in clear sharp detail

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Limn

Question 52

Governed or characterized by caprice: impulsive, unpredictable

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Capricious

Question 53

Joint, connection | A point of time, especially: one made critical by a concurrence of circumstances

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Juncture