vocab

Question 1

Belie

Answer 1

to give a false impression or misrepresentation

Question 2

Diatribe

Answer 2

harsh denunciation

Question 3

Discomfit

Answer 3

to defeat, to put down

Question 4

Dissemble

Answer 4

disguise or conceal, to mislead

Question 5

Irascible

Answer 5

easily angered, prone to temperamental outbursts

Question 6

Misanthrope

Answer 6

one who hates all other humans

Question 7

Obdurate

Answer 7

unyielding, hardhearted, intractable

Question 8

Opprobrium

Answer 8

disgrace, scorn, contempt

Question 9

Recalcitrant

Answer 9

obstinately defiant of authority, difficult to manage

Question 10

Specious

Answer 10

seeming to be true, but actually fallacious, misleadingly attractive

Question 11

Enervate

Answer 11

to weaken, to reduce in vitality

Question 12

Inchoate

Answer 12

in an initial stage, not fully formed

Question 13

Obviate

Answer 13

to anticipate and make unnecessary

Question 14

Iconoclastic

Answer 14

attacking cherished beliefs, heretical, heterodox

Question 15

Approbation

Answer 15

approval or praise

Question 16

Aver

Answer 16

to state as a fact

Question 17

Equivocate

Answer 17

to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

Question 18

Laconic

Answer 18

using few words, terse

Question 19

Propitiate

Answer 19

to appease, to conciliate

Question 20

Nonplussed

Answer 20

baffled, in a quandary

Question 21

Probity

Answer 21

adherence to the highest principles, uprightness

Question 22

Table

Answer 22

to remove from consideration (as in parliamentary bill)

Question 23

Abscission

Answer 23

the act of cutting off or removing

Question 24

Acarpous

Answer 24

effete, no longer fertile, worn out

Question 25

Adumbrate

Answer 25

to foreshadow or intimate, to suggest sketchily, to obscure

Question 26

Anodyne

Answer 26

soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

Question 27

Apotheosis

Answer 27

deification, glorification to godliness

Question 28

Apposite

Answer 28

appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos

Question 29

Arrant

Answer 29

impudent

Question 30

Asseverate

Answer 30

to allege, to assert, to aver

Question 31

Aver

Answer 31

to affirm, to assert, to prove, to justify

Question 32

Baleful

Answer 32

sinister, ominous

Question 33

Bedizen

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to adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner, to festoon

Question 34

Cachinnate

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to laugh loudly

Question 35

Cadge

Answer 35

to sponge or mooch

Question 36

Caparison

Answer 36

to adorn or bedizen

Question 37

Captious

Answer 37

calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument, hypercritical, caviling

Question 38

Cavil

Answer 38

to find fault without good reason

Question 39

Contemn

Answer 39

scorn or despise

Question 40

Contumacious

Answer 40

insubordinate, rebellious

Question 41

Cozen

Answer 41

to deceive, beguile or hoodwink

Question 42

Defalcate

Answer 42

to embezzle or misappropriate

Question 43

Descant

Answer 43

comment at length

Question 44

Disuetude

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disuse

Question 45

Desultory

Answer 45

random, thoughtless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose

Question 46

Distrait

Answer 46

distracted, absent minded especially due to anxiety

Question 47

Doggerel

Answer 47

trivial, poorly constructed verse

Question 48

Edacious

Answer 48

voracious person

Question 49

Encomium

Answer 49

glowing or enthusiastic praise, tribute, eulogy

Question 50

Expatiate

Answer 50

to descant, to discourse, to discuss or write at length

Question 51

Froward

Answer 51

intractable, not willing to yield or comply, recalcitrant

Question 52

Gainsay

Answer 52

deny or dispute

Question 53

Harrow

Answer 53

to distress, or create stress, to torment

Question 54

Hirsute

Answer 54

shaggy, hairy

Question 55

Homiletics

Answer 55

the art of preaching

Question 56

Ineluctable

Answer 56

certain, inevitable

Question 57

Interdict

Answer 57

to forbid, to ban, to halt

Question 58

Jejeune

Answer 58

vapid, uninteresting, immature, puerile

Question 59

Lachrymose

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causing tears, tearful

Question 60

Limn

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to draw, to outline in detail, to describe

Question 61

Lubricious

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

Question 62

Maculate

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marked with splotches, besmirched, impure

Question 63

Maunder

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to digress, to meander, to stray from

Question 64

Meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry

Question 65

Minatory

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threatening, menacing

Question 66

Nostrum

Answer 66

panacea, cure-all, placebo

Question 67

Nugatory

Answer 67

trifling, inconsequential

Question 68

Obloquy

Answer 68

abusively detractive language, sharp criticism, calumny