Barrons 1 Flashcards

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Fractious

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adj. quarrelsome; unruly; rebellious

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Fresco

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n. a painting done on plaster

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Froward

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adj. stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient

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Fulminate

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v. to attack loudly; denounce

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Fulsome

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adj. so excessive as to be disgusting

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Gainsay

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v. to deny; dispute; oppose

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Gambol

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v. to frolic; leap playfully

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Gauche

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adj. coarse and uncouth; clumsy

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Glib

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adj. fluent in an insincere way; offhand

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Gossamer

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adj. sheer; light and delicate, like cobwebs

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Gradiloquent

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adj. pompous; bombastic

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Gregarious

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adj. sociable

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Grouse

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v. to complain; n. complaints

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Guileless

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adj. free of cunning or deceit; artless

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Halcyon

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adj. calm and peaceful; happy; golden; prosperous

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Harrowing

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adj. extremely distressing; terrifying

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Hermetic

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adj. tightly seald; magical

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Homeostasis

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n. automatic maintenance by an organism of normal temperature

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Idolatry

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n. idol worship; blind or excessive devotion

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Igneous

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adj. produced by fire; volcanic

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Imbroglio

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n. complicated situation; an entanglement

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Immutable

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adj. unchangeable

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Impecunious

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adj. poor; having no money

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Impervious

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adj. impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected

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# Define: Impinge
v. to strike; encroach
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# Define: Implacable
adj. inflexible; incapable of being pleased
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# Define: Imprecation
n. curse
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# Define: Impute
v. to relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the failt to; assign as a characteristic
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# Define: Incursion
n. sudden invasion
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# Define: Indigence
n. poverty
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# Define: Indolent
adj. habitually lazy; idle
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# Define: Ineluctable
adj. unavoidable; inevitable
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# Define: Ingenous
adj. naïve and trusting; ;acking sophistication
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# Define: Insensible
adj. unconscious; unresponsive
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# Define: Insouciant
adj. indifferent; lacking concern or care
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# Define: Insularity
n. narrow-mindedness; isolation
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# Define: Insuperable
adj. insurmountable; unconquerable
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# Define: Interdict
v. to forbid; prohibit; to confront and halt the activities
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# Define: Internecine
adj. deadly to both sides
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# Define: Interpolate
v. to insert; change by adding new words or material
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# Define: Interregnum
n. interval between reigns; gap in continuity
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# Define: Inveigh
v. to disapprove; protest vehemently
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# Define: Inveterate
adj. confirmed; long-standing; deeply rooted
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# Define: Invidious
adj. likely to provoke ill-will; offensive
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# Define: Irascible
adj. easily angered
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# Define: Jaundiced
adj. having a yellowish discoloration of the skin; affected by envy, resentment, or hostility
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# Define: Jibe
v. to be in agreement
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# Define: Labile
adj. likely to change
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# Define: Lascivious
adj. lustful
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# Define: Lassitude
n. lethargy; sluggishness
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# Define: Levity
adj. light manner or attitude
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# Define: Liberal
adj. tolerant; broad-minded; generous; lavish
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# Define: Lilliputian
adj. extremely small
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# Define: Limn
v. to draw; describe
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# Define: Limpid
adj. clear; transparent
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# Define: Litany
n. lengthy recitation; repetitive chant
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# Define: Lucid
adj. bright; clear; intelligble
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# Define: Lucre
n. money or profits
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# Define: Machiavellian
adj. crafty; double-dealing
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# Define: Magnanimity
n. generosity; nobility
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# Define: Malign
v. to speak evil of
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# Define: Malleable
adj. impressionable
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# Define: Megalomania
n. delusions of power or importance
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# Define: Menagerie
n. a variety of animals kept together
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# Define: Mendacious
adj. dishonest
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# Define: Mendicant
n. beggar
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# Define: Meretricious
adj. gaudy; plausible but false; specious
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# Define: Metaphysics
n. branch of philosophy that investigates the ultimate nature of reality
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# Define: Meteorological
adj. concerned with the weather
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# Define: Mettle
n. courage; endurance
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# Define: Militate
v. to work against
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# Define: Minutia
n. petty details
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# Define: Mitigate
v. to cause to become less harsh, severe, or painful; alleviate
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# Define: Mnemonic
adj. related to mempory; assisting memory
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# Define: Modium
n. limited quantity
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# Define: Mollify
v. to soothe
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# Define: Monolithic
adj. solid and uniform; constituting a single, unified whole
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# Define: Motley
adj. many colored; made up of many parts
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# Define: Multifarious
adj. diverse
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# Define: Necromancy
n. black magic
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# Define: Neophyte
n. novice; beginner
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# Define: Nonplussed
adj. bewildered
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# Define: Nostrum
n. medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness; supposed cure
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# Define: Nugatory
adj. triffling; invalid
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# Define: Obsequy
n. funeral ceremony
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# Define: Officious
adj. too helpful; meddlesome
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# Define: Ornithologist
n. scientist who studies birds
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# Define: Overweening
adj. presumptuous; arrogant; overbearing
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# Define: Paleontology
n. study of past geological eras through fossil remains
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# Define: Pallid
adj. lacking color or liveliness
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# Define: Pathological
adj. departing from normal condition
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# Define: Pellucid
adj. transparent; translucent; easily understood
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# Define: Penury
n. extreme poverty
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# Define: Peregrination
n. a wandering from place to place
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# Define: Peremptory
adj. imperative; leaving no choice
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# Define: Perfidious
adj. faithless; disloyal; untrustworthy
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# Define: Perigee
n. point in orbit that is closest to Earth
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# Define: Piety
n. devoutness
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# Define: Piquant
adj. appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent; attractive
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. quarrelsome; unruly; rebellious
Fractious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. a painting done on plaster
Fresco
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient
Froward
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to attack loudly; denounce
Fulminate
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. so excessive as to be disgusting
Fulsome
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to deny; dispute; oppose
Gainsay
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to frolic; leap playfully
Gambol
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. coarse and uncouth; clumsy
Gauche
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. fluent in an insincere way; offhand
Glib
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. sheer; light and delicate, like cobwebs
Gossamer
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. pompous; bombastic
Gradiloquent
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. sociable
Gregarious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to complain; n. complaints
Grouse
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. free of cunning or deceit; artless
Guileless
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. calm and peaceful; happy; golden; prosperous
Halcyon
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. extremely distressing; terrifying
Harrowing
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. tightly seald; magical
Hermetic
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. automatic maintenance by an organism of normal temperature
Homeostasis
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. idol worship; blind or excessive devotion
Idolatry
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. produced by fire; volcanic
Igneous
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. complicated situation; an entanglement
Imbroglio
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. unchangeable
Immutable
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. poor; having no money
Impecunious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
Impervious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to strike; encroach
Impinge
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. inflexible; incapable of being pleased
Implacable
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. curse
Imprecation
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the failt to; assign as a characteristic
Impute
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. sudden invasion
Incursion
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. poverty
Indigence
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. habitually lazy; idle
Indolent
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. unavoidable; inevitable
Ineluctable
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. naïve and trusting; ;acking sophistication
Ingenous
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. unconscious; unresponsive
Insensible
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. indifferent; lacking concern or care
Insouciant
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. narrow-mindedness; isolation
Insularity
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. insurmountable; unconquerable
Insuperable
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to forbid; prohibit; to confront and halt the activities
Interdict
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. deadly to both sides
Internecine
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to insert; change by adding new words or material
Interpolate
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. interval between reigns; gap in continuity
Interregnum
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to disapprove; protest vehemently
Inveigh
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. confirmed; long-standing; deeply rooted
Inveterate
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. likely to provoke ill-will; offensive
Invidious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. easily angered
Irascible
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. having a yellowish discoloration of the skin; affected by envy, resentment, or hostility
Jaundiced
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to be in agreement
Jibe
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. likely to change
Labile
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. lustful
Lascivious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. lethargy; sluggishness
Lassitude
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. light manner or attitude
Levity
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. tolerant; broad-minded; generous; lavish
Liberal
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. extremely small
Lilliputian
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to draw; describe
Limn
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. clear; transparent
Limpid
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. lengthy recitation; repetitive chant
Litany
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. bright; clear; intelligble
Lucid
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. money or profits
Lucre
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. crafty; double-dealing
Machiavellian
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. generosity; nobility
Magnanimity
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to speak evil of
Malign
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. impressionable
Malleable
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. delusions of power or importance
Megalomania
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. a variety of animals kept together
Menagerie
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. dishonest
Mendacious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. beggar
Mendicant
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. gaudy; plausible but false; specious
Meretricious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. branch of philosophy that investigates the ultimate nature of reality
Metaphysics
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. concerned with the weather
Meteorological
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. courage; endurance
Mettle
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to work against
Militate
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. petty details
Minutia
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to cause to become less harsh, severe, or painful; alleviate
Mitigate
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. related to mempory; assisting memory
Mnemonic
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. limited quantity
Modium
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to soothe
Mollify
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. solid and uniform; constituting a single, unified whole
Monolithic
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. many colored; made up of many parts
Motley
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. diverse
Multifarious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. black magic
Necromancy
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. novice; beginner
Neophyte
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. bewildered
Nonplussed
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness; supposed cure
Nostrum
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. triffling; invalid
Nugatory
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. funeral ceremony
Obsequy
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. too helpful; meddlesome
Officious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. scientist who studies birds
Ornithologist
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. presumptuous; arrogant; overbearing
Overweening
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. study of past geological eras through fossil remains
Paleontology
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. lacking color or liveliness
Pallid
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. departing from normal condition
Pathological
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. transparent; translucent; easily understood
Pellucid
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. extreme poverty
Penury
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. a wandering from place to place
Peregrination
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. imperative; leaving no choice
Peremptory
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. faithless; disloyal; untrustworthy
Perfidious
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. point in orbit that is closest to Earth
Perigee
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. devoutness
Piety
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# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent; attractive
Piquant