Princeton Review Hit Pass 2

Question 1

Accolade

Answer 1

an expression of praise

Question 2

Adulation

Answer 2

excessive praise; intense adoration

Question 3

Ascetic

Answer 3

one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion

Question 4

Avarice

Answer 4

greed, esp. for wealth

Question 5

Burgeon

Answer 5

to grow rapidly or flourish

Question 6

Bucolic

Answer 6

rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

Question 7

Castigation

Answer 7

severe criticism or punishment

Question 8

Caustic

Answer 8

burning or stinging, causing corrosion

Question 9

Cogent

Answer 9

appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

Question 10

Contrite

Answer 10

regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness

Question 11

Culpable

Answer 11

deserving blame

Question 12

Dearth

Answer 12

smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack

Question 13

Demur

Answer 13

to question or oppose

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Didactic

Answer 14

intended to teach or instruct

Question 15

Ebullience

Answer 15

the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

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Emollient

Answer 16

soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smooths the skin

Question 17

Enigmatic

Answer 17

mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand

Question 18

Facetious

Answer 18

playful; humorous

Question 19

Fallacy

Answer 19

an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

Question 20

Furtive

Answer 20

marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

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Impecunious

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lacking funds; without money

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Incipient

Answer 22

beginning to come into being or to become apparent

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Inert

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unmoving; lethargic; sluggish

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Intransigent

Answer 24

refusing to compromise

Question 25

Inveigle

Answer 25

to obtain by deception or flattery

Question 26

Odious

Answer 26

evoking intense aversion or dislike

Question 27

Penurious

Answer 27

penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

Question 28

Pernicious

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extremely harmful; potentially causing death

Question 29

Preen

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to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care

Question 30

Quaff

Answer 30

to drink deeply

Question 31

Quiescence

Answer 31

stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest (adj. form: quiescent)

Question 32

Redoubtable

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awe-inspiring; worthy of honor

Question 33

Squalid

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sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect

Question 34

Supplant

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to take the place of; to supersede

Question 35

Urbane

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sophisticated; refined; elegant

Question 36

Vilify

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to defame; to characterize harshly

Question 37

Viscous

Answer 37

thick; sticky