AMFAS Vocab

Question 1

Perverse

Answer 1

Abnormally different

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Profound

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Insightful, deeply thoughtful

Question 3

Deteriorating

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Decaying, falling apart

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Devious

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Deceptively tricky

Question 5

Discretion

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To show wise caution in words and actions

Question 6

Dynasty

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Powerful family of leaders who control a country’s politics for some time

Question 7

Precedents

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Past actions that serve as a pattern for future actions

Question 8

Felicity

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Happiness

Question 9

Multitudinous

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Numerous

Question 10

Amicably

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Pleasantly

Question 11

Advocates

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Those who represents the interests of others (lawyers)

Question 12

Heretic

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One whose beliefs are contrary to the church

Question 13

Commodity

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Thing of value

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Imprudence

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Rudeness

Question 15

Deprecating

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Disaproving

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Assert

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To state positively or forcefully

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Licentious

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Immoral

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Ambiguous

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Unclear in meaing

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Repent

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Turn away from sin

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Deplorable

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Dreadful and unnacceptable

Question 21

Haven

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Place of safety and security

Question 22

Foreboding

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Sense of doom, something negative to come in future

Question 23

Libel

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Spread hurtful rumor through text

Question 24

Prominent

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Conspicuous in position or importance

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Tactful

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Sense of what is fitting and considerate

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Lamenting

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Mourning

Question 27

Fastidious

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Concern for accuracy and detail

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Temperate

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Showing self restraint and moderation

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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight

Question 30

Vestige

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Last trace of something disappearing or already gone

Question 31

Impeccably

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Done flawlessly

Question 32

Corroborate

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Confirm or give support to

Question 33

Insolent

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Disrespectful and arrogant

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Enmity

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Hostility, hatred

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Dank

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Damp and musty place

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Perpetual

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Neverending

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Pragmatist

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One who acts to achieve a specific goal

Question 38

Notorious

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Well known for a bad reason

Question 39

Abstain

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Hold oneself back from

Question 40

Instigate

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Urging or provoking