Practice Test 2 Vocab

Question 0

Fastidiously

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adj. Very attentive, concerned with accuracy

syn. Meticulous

Question 1

Equivocal

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Adj. open to more than one interpretation, wishy-washy

Question 2

Dilatorily

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adj. Causing delay

Question 3

Obstreperous

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adj. Noisy, difficult to control

Question 4

Reprisal

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n. Vengeance, an act of retaliation

Question 5

Enervate

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v. To weaken

Question 6

Hyperbole

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n. Intentional exaggeration

Question 7

Similes

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n. Literary comparisons

Question 8

Portents

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n. Forewarning, a sign or warning of something calamitous

Question 9

Auguries

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n. An omen

Question 10

Specious

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adj. Superficially plausible, but actually wrong

Question 11

Ingenuous

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adj. Naive or innocent

Question 12

Profusion

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n. An abundance

Question 13

Remonstrative

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adj. Describing a pleading objection

Question 14

Innocuous

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adj. Not harmful

Question 15

Deleterious

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adj. Causing harm or damage

Question 16

Fidelity

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n. Faithfulness

n. Accuracy in details

Question 17

Articulate

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adj. Clear in words or speech

Question 18

Deft

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adj. Skillful in ones movements

adj. Demonstrating skill and cleverness

Question 19

Mercurial

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adj. Lively and unpredictable

Question 20

Propitiate

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v. Win or regain the favor of (a god, spirit, person) by doing something that pleases.

Question 21

Carousing

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v. Drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself in a noisy, lively way.

Question 22

Bacchanalian

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adj. Characterized by or given to drunk revelry; riotously drunken.

Question 23

Abberation

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n. A departure from the norm

Question 24

Peregrination

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v. To travel or wander around

Question 25

Destitute

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adj. Without the basic necessities of life; extremely poor.

Question 26

Lugubrious

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adj. Looking or sounding sad and dismal.

Question 27

Ersatz

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adj. Made or used as a substitute.

Question 28

Umbrage

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n. Offense or annoyance.

Question 29

Obviate

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v. To prevent

v. To remove

Question 30

Preclude

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v. To prevent from happening.

Question 31

Pellucid

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adj. Easy to understand.

Question 32

Adroit

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adj. clever or skillful

Question 33

Munificent

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adj. Very generous

Question 34

Quotidian

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adj. Of or occurring everyday; ordinary

Question 35

Bungling

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adj. Awkward

Question 36

Giddy

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adj. Dizzying

Question 37

Vertiginous

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adj. Causing vertigo; dizzying created by steepness.

Question 38

Laconic

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adj. A person of very few words.

Question 39

Descry

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v. To catch sight of

Question 40

Contravene

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v. To contradict

Question 41

Assimilate

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v. To take in or thoroughly understand.

Question 42

Slake

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v. To quench thirst.

Question 43

Allay

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v. To fill a need.

Question 44

Sate

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v. To satisfy

Question 45

Surfeit

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v. To overindulge

Question 46

Glut

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n. An excessive supply of something

Question 47

Whet

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v. To sharpen or intensify

Question 48

Toadies

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n. A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

Question 49

Sycophant

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n. A flatterer

Question 50

Tyro

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n. A beginner

v. To initiate

Question 51

Largesse

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N. generous bestowal of gifts.

Question 52

Perfidy

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n. Deceitfulness; untrustworthy

Question 53

Querulous

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adj. Complaining in a whining manner

Question 54

Petulant

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adj. Childishly sulky or bad tempered.