Vocab

Question 0

Assuage

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v. To make easier or milder, relieve

Question 1

Approbation

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n. Praise

Question 2

Expostulate

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v. To attempt to dissuade someone

Question 3

Hackneyed

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adj. Used so often as to lack freshness and originality

Question 4

Hiatus

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n. A gap, opening, break

Question 5

Lurid

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adj. Causing shock, horror, or revulsion

Question 6

Petulant

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adj. Irritable

Question 7

Provincial

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adj. Narrow in mind or outlook, narrow-minded

Question 8

Umbrage

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n. Offense

Question 9

Unctuous

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adj. Trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness

Question 10

Ameliorate

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v. To improve

Question 11

Aplomb

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n. Poise, assurance, great self-confidence

Question 12

Bombastic

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adj. Pompous, pretentious

Question 13

Callow

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adj. Without experience, immature

Question 14

Epitome

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n. A typical or ideal example, quintessence

Question 15

Exhort

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v. To urge strongly, advise earnestly

Question 16

Ingratiate

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v. To make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others

Question 17

Inveigh

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v. To make a violent attack in words

Question 18

Lassitude

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n. Lack of energy

Question 19

Permeate

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v. To spread through, penetrate

Question 20

Abominate

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v. Loath, despise, detest

Question 21

Adventitious

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adj. Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character, accidental, unplanned

Question 22

Enjoin

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v. To direct or order

Question 23

Expedite

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v. To make easy

Question 24

Inadvertent

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adj. Accidental

Question 25

Peculate

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v. To steal something that has been given into one's trust

Question 26

Seditious

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adj. Resistant to lawful authority

Question 27

Tenuous

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adj. Poorly supported, insubstantial

Question 28

Vitriolic

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adj. Bitter, sarcastic

Question 29

Wheedle

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v. To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end

Question 30

Affable

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adj. Sociable, amicable

Question 31

Erudite

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adj. Scholarly

Question 32

Insular

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adj. Narrow or isolated in outlook or experience

Question 33

Irrevocable

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adj. Incapable of being changed

Question 34

Propensity

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n. A natural inclination

Question 35

Querulous

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adj. Peevish, complaining, petulant

Question 36

Remonstrate

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v. To reason against, expostulate

Question 37

Repudiate

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v. To deny the validity of, disavow

Question 38

Scurrilous

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adj. Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low

Question 39

Sedulous

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adj. Persistent, assiduous

Question 40

Axiomatic

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adj. Expressing a universally accepted principle

Question 41

Blazon

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v. To display, to publish

Question 42

Caveat

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n. A warning or caution

Question 43

Extricate

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v. To free from entanglements

Question 44

Filch

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v. To steal in a sneaky way and in petty amounts

Question 45

Flout

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v. To mock, treat with contempt

Question 46

Fractious

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adj. Tending to be troublesome, unruly, unpredictable

Question 47

Salutary

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adj. Beneficial, healthful

Question 48

Scourge

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n. A cause of affliction or suffering, bane

Question 49

Sepulchral

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adj. Funereal, gloomy or dismal

Question 50

Soporific

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adj. Tending to cause sleep

Question 51

Vapid

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adj. Dull, uninteresting

Question 52

Anomalous

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adj. Abnormal

Question 53

Aspersion

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n. Derogatory statement

Question 54

Brusque

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adj. Abrupt, blunt, tactless

Question 55

Cajole

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v. To persuade through flattery, wheedle

Question 56

Castigate

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v. To punish, to criticize severely, chastise

Question 57

Disabuse

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v. To free from error, set right

Question 58

Ennui

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n. Boredom

Question 59

Immutable

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adj. Constant

Question 60

Surreptitious

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adj. Stealthy, secret

Question 61

Vicarious

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adj. Experienced by one person in place of another