Vocabulary Part 3

Question 1

producing cancer

Answer 1

carcinogenic

Question 2

existing or as such from birth

Answer 2

congenital

Question 3

offspring descendants

Answer 3

progeny

Question 4

one who believes that the existence of god is not provable

Answer 4

agonistic

Question 5

a person lacking knowledge, uninformed

Answer 5

ignoramus

Question 6

to depart from the main subject

Answer 6

digress

Question 7

going out; way out

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egress

Question 8

a short poem; a pointed statement

Answer 8

epigram

Question 9

a mineral used for writing, as in the “lead” in pencils

Answer 9

graphite

Question 10

to bring oneself into favor

Answer 10

ingratiate

Question 11

a number of things considered as a collective whole

Answer 11

aggregate

Question 12

to come together in a group

Answer 12

congregate

Question 13

remarkably bad; standing out from the crowd

Answer 13

egregious

Question 14

sociable; enjoying spending time with others

Answer 14

gregarious

Question 15

at random

Answer 15

haphazard

Question 16

without luck

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hapless

Question 17

half a line of poetry

Answer 17

hemistich

Question 18

logically consistent; having waves in phase and of one wavelength

Answer 18

coherent

Question 19

involved in the constitution or essential character of something

Answer 19

inherent

Question 20

different from acknowledged standard; holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines

Answer 20

heterodox

Question 21

a document written entirely by the person whose name it is in

Answer 21

holograph

Question 22

considering something as a unified whole

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holistic

Question 23

deviation from the common rule

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anomaly

Question 24

one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning

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homonym

Question 25

unearth

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exhume

Question 26

purposeful exaggeration for effect

Answer 26

hyperbole

Question 27

an abnormally high concentration of sugar in the blood

Answer 27

hyperglycemia

Question 28

relating to the parts beneath the skin

Answer 28

hypodermic

Question 29

one who attacks established beliefs; one who tears down images

Answer 29

iconoclast

Question 30

symbolism

Answer 30

iconology

Question 31

a language, dialect, or style of speaking to particular people

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idiom

Question 32

peculiarity of temperament; eccentricity

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idiosyncrasy

Question 33

given a bodily, esp. a human, form

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incarnate

Question 34

belonging to a thing by its very nature

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intrinsic

Question 35

poor, needy, lacking in what is needed

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indigent

Question 36

showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful

Answer 36

indolence

Question 37

not harmful or injurious

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innocuous

Question 38

one who intrudes in the domain of others

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interloper

Question 39

within a school; inside a city

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intramural

Question 40

given to joking; playful

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jocose

Question 41

in a joking matter; funny

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jocular

Question 42

merry; cheerful

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jocund

Question 43

related to marriage

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conjugal

Question 44

a command; an act of enjoining

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injunction

Question 45

the act of joining; combining; a place where multiple paths join

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junction

Question 46

a group of military officers who join together to run a country; a council

Answer 46

junta

Question 47

to reply, retort

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rejoinder

Question 48

to make subservient; to place under a yoke

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subjugate

Question 49

to close a meeting; to put off further proceedings for another day

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adjourn

Question 50

to act as a judge

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adjudicate

Question 51

having good judgement

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judicious

Question 52

a previous or premature judgement; bias

Answer 52

prejudice

Question 53

to renounce on oath

Answer 53

abjure

Question 54

to bed or command

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adjure

Question 55

a system of law; knowledge of law

Answer 55

jurisprudence

Question 56

willful lying while on oath

Answer 56

perjury

Question 57

writings or art produced in one's youth

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juvenilia

Question 58

the study of language

Answer 58

linguistics

Question 59

with honors

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cum laude

Question 60

praiseworthy

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laudable

Question 61

expressing praise

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laudatory

Question 62

act of cleansing

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ablution

Question 63

a great flood of water

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deluge

Question 64

loose; undisciplined

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lax

Question 65

a manner of speaking; a regional variety of a language

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dialect

Question 66

a reading desk

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lectern

Question 67

a writer of dictionaries

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lexicographer

Question 68

a dictionary

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lexicon

Question 69

selecting ideas, etc. from various sources

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eclectic

Question 70

preference, liking

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predilection

Question 71

an embarkment against river flooding

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levee

Question 72

humor, frivolity, gaiety

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levity

Question 73

the right to hold a property due to an outstanding debt

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lien

Question 74

a connection between two letters; a bond

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ligature

Question 75

generous; giving away freely

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liberal

Question 76

generosity

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liberality

Question 77

one who follows one's own path, without regard for morals or other restrictions

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libertine

Question 78

a uniform; an emblem indicating an owner or a manufacturer

Answer 78

livery

Question 79

a statue with a stone head and limbs but a wooden body

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acrolith

Question 80

a printing process that originally involved writing on a flat stone

Answer 80

lithography

Question 81

the study of rocks and stones

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lithology

Question 82

an operation to remove stones from the body

Answer 82

lithotomy

Question 83

a very big stone

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megalith

Question 84

a single block of stone, often shaped into a monument

Answer 84

monolith

Question 85

of ordinary or familiar conversation

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colloquial

Question 86

art of clear and expressive speaking

Answer 86

elocution

Question 87

pompous or inflated in language

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grandiloquent

Question 88

talkative

Answer 88

loquacious

Question 89

highly distinguished

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illustrious

Question 90

easily understood, intelligible

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lucid

Question 91

permitting light to pass through

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translucent

Question 92

to refer casually or indirectly

Answer 92

allude

Question 93

to mislead the mind or judgement of, deceive

Answer 93

delude

Question 94

ridiculous, laughable

Answer 94

ludicrous