Bend Down And Call Me Dadi

Question 1

Clairvoyant

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Adj
Having supernatural power
Noun
Somone who claims to have supernatural powers

He has clairvoyant powers

Question 2

Conclusive

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Adj
Settling an issue, final
The gun with his blood on it gave us conclusive evidence that he did the crime

Question 3

Disreputable

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Adj
Not respectable
People thought they were criminals by their disreputable appearance

Question 4

Endemic

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Adj
Natural to a particular religion
The monkeys are endemic to the tropics

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Exemplary

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Adj
Worthy of imitation, commendable.
He was an exemplary student

Question 6

Fathom

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Verb
To understand
It is hard to fathom Dr. Johnson’s ways of doing math

Question 7

Guile

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Noun
Treacherous cunning, crafty deception, deceit
The guile of the serpent in the book of Genesis is great

Question 8

Integrity

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Noun
Honesty, moral and ethical principles
Chester has incredible integrity

Question 9

Itinerary

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Noun
A route of travel
It took a while for us to plan our itinerary of our trip to Europe

Question 10

Misconstrue

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Verb
To mistake the meaning of something
George Bush has Ben misconstrued as an amazing leader, but he is terrible

Question 11

Obnoxious

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Adj
Highly offensive, arousing strong dislike
The teacher hates him for his obnoxious remarks in class

Question 12

Placate

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Verb
To make someone feel less angry about something.
Since I accidentally kicked my friend, I tried to placate him

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Placid

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Adj
Calm, peaceful
My life in Antigua is placid

Question 14

Plagiarism

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Noun
Using of one’s own writings.
The author was convicted of plagiarism, so he was sent to jail

Question 15

Potent

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Adj
Powerful
The king had immeasurable potent

Question 16

Pretext

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Noun
A false reason
Since I was bored by the meeting, I made a pretext for leaving

Question 17

Protrude

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Verb
To stick out
English people’s retry protrude

Question 18

Stark

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Adj - Adv
Harsh, unpleasant and difficult to accept or experience
The stark reality of death scared me

Question 19

Superficial

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Adj
Concerned with only what is obvious or apparent, not deep or serious.
People under the age of 7 have a superficial knowledge of life

Question 20

Abjure

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Verb
To reject or give up a belief or activity
After the tyrant took over the country, the citizens had to abjure their political beliefs.

Question 21

Acrid

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Adj
Harsh in taste or odor
The acrid smoke from the factory was hard to breathe in

Question 22

August

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Adj
Having a formal and impressive quality
Caesar and his senators had an August appearance at the town meeting

Question 23

Callous

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Adj
Not feeling or showing concern for something
Donald trump has a callous refusal to help the poor

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Clandestine

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Adj
Secret, concealed
The spy’s clandestine activities found him the murderer

Question 25

Compunction

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Noun
Remorse, regret
ISIS feel no compunction for their crimes

Question 26

Conflagration

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Noun
A large fire
The conflagration of Rome was all Nero’s fault

Question 27

Elated

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Adj
High spirits, happy
I was elated with my success of the A on the grammar test

Question 28

Indelible

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Adj
Not able to be forgotten or not able to be erased.
The fact that Donald is a horrible person is indelible.

Question 29

Indulgent

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Adj
Always doing things for others
The prince of Egypt was spoiled by his indulgent guardian

Question 30

Inveterate

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Adj
Always or often happening, long standing
His inveterate tendency to chew gum made his teeth extra white

Question 31

Irrelevant

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Adj
Not to the point
All irrelevant questions will get you a strike at St Bernards

Question 32

Nocturnal

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Adj
Occurring in the night
The calls of the nocturnal owls are amazing

Question 33

Platitude

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Noun
An old everyday saying
I wanted to kill myself as our teacher was giving us an hour speech filled with platitudes

Question 34

Quell

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Verb
To stop something by force
Someone needs to call the police to quell the riot!!!!

Question 35

Quiescent

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Adj
Not active
The volcano has been quiescent for many years, so we’re safe!!

Question 36

Ruminate

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Verb
To think deeply and carefully about something
I ruminate over death a lot.

Question 37

Tacit

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Adj
Unspoken but implied, not directly stated but inferred
I have a tacit understanding that I’m better at sports than Chester

Question 38

Tangible

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Adj
Real, able to be touched
There is no tangible evidence to support her claim of murder

Question 39

Trenchant

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Adj
Very strong, clear, effective
The delivered the order in a trenchant manner

Question 40

Allude

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Verb

To refer casually or indirectly