VSP Review quiz

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Harsh or bitter in disposition, speech, or manner

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Acrimonious

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Different from the usual or standard; hard to identify or classify because of abnormality

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Anomalous

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Involving hard labor; to test one’s endurance

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Ardous

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Irrelevant to the present topic; a nonessential part

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Extraneous

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Unauthentic or fabricated

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Factitious

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Involving untrue information that harms someone’s reputation

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Libelous

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Physically or morally harmful

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Noxious

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Ocurring or appearing after one’s death

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Posthumous

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Lacking of courage; charecterized by weakness of spirit

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Pusillanimous

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Given to complaining; full of complaints

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Querulous

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Harsh-sounding or loud; rambunctious and rowdy

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Raucous

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Taken or done stealthily or secretly; unauthorized

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Surreptitious

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Turned away in mind of feeling; opposed to

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Averse

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Showing caution; watchful on all sides; attentive to everything that may affect action ot decision

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Circumspect

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The elements or parts of; composed

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Constituent

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Deserving blame

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Culpable

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Deprived of the barest necessities of life; living in absolute poverty

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Destitute

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To reveal; to show plainy; to prove

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Manifest

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Observable without being concealed

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Overt

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To make impossible by previous action; prevent

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Preclude

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One who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion. Withdrawn from the world

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Recluse

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In the mentioned order

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Respectively

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A looking back on the past; a review of something past

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Retrospect

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Causing death, destruction, or ruin; very harmful

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Baneful

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A belief, doctrine, or principle held as true

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Tenet

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Extravagant actions

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Antics

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A request or favor; a blessing

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Boon

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Government through bureaus run by nonelective officials; governemnt officials collectively

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Bureaucracy

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A person who delights in an art or science in an amateurish or superficial way; a superficial amateur

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Dilettante

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Exhibit unstable behavior

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Flighty

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Too bright or glaring; showy

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Garish

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A long , noisy, or scolding speech

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Harangue

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Tearfully of effusively sentimental

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Maudlin

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Composed of various colors or elements

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Motley

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One who makes an ostentitous display of knowledge; one who gives undue attention to trivial details of learning but has little interest in practical affairs

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Pedant

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A long-lasting feud or conflict

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Vendetta

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Not revealed pubically; understood by only a particular group

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Esotheric

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Wild or untamed,especially an animal

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Feral

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Pertaining to law courts or formal argumentation. Applying the techniques of science to the solving of a crime or litigation

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Forensic

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Pertaining to the real nature of a thing; inherent

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Intrinsic

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Producing gain or weallth; pofitable

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Lucrative

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Driven by want for money or material gain. A soldier paid to fight in another country's military

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Mercenary

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Pertaining to the world; worldly as opposed to the spiritual and eternal

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Mundane

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Pertaining to the night; done or occurring in the night

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Nocturnal

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Concerned with facts or actial occurrences; practical

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Pragmatic

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Of the color of blood, ruddy; cheerful, hopeful

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Sanguine

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Not pertaining to church or religion; worldly

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Secular

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Changing unpredictaly; tending to break out into violence

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Volatile

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Yielding or containing plenty

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Copious

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Tending to detract, as from authority or estimation; disparaging

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Derogatory

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Depressing, gloomy

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Dismal

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Joking; usually clumsy or innapropiate joking

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Facetious

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Void of intelligence or meaning

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Inane

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Dormant or hidden; present but undetected or incative

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Latent

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Clouded; vague; indistinct

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Nebulous

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Extremely wicked

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Nefarious

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The quality of preventing an anticipated circumstance

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Preemptive

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Very conscientious; extremely thorough; closely attentive to what is right and proper

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Scrupulous

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Habitually silent; not liking to talk

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Taciturn

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Having different colors in streaks, spots, or patches; characterized by variety

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Variegated

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To punish or rebuke severely

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Castigate

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To call or bring in mind. To summon using supernatural power

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Conjure

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Concealed, hidden, secret, disguised. A covering; a shelter or hiding place

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Covert

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To delay because of doubts or obligations; to take exception to

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Demur

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Jumping from one thing to another in a haphazard way; unmethodical

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Desultory

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Happening by chance or accident

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Fortuitous

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To compare by placing two things parallel

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Juxtapose

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To soften the anger of or to soothe hurt feelings; to make less intensive or severe

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Mollify

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Most desirable of favorable

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Optimal

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Very destructive

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Pernicious

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Developed or matured before the usual time

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Precocious

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Involving much inactivity or sitting

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Sedentary