English Vocab 101-150

Question 1

Corrode

Answer 1

V. Destroy by chemical action

Question 2

Comprehensive

Answer 2

Adj. Thorough or inclusive

Question 3

Carping

Answer 3

Adj. Finding fault

difficult to please; critical.

“she has silenced the carping critics with a successful debut tour”

Question 4

Consensus

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N. General agreement

Question 5

Guile

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N. Deceit or duplicity

sly or cunning intelligence.

“he used all his guile and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in”

Question 6

Concise

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Adj. Brief and compact

Question 7

Innate

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Adj. Inborn

existing from birth.

natural to a person or animal.

Question 8

Innocuous

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Adj. Harmless

not harmful or offensive.
“it was an innocuous question”

Question 9

Innovation

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Adj. Change or introduction of something new

Question 10

Concur

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V. Agree

Question 11

Capricious

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Adj. Fickle or incalculable

given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour.
“a capricious and often brutal administration”

changing according to no discernible rules; unpredictable.
“a capricious climate”

Question 12

Integrity

Answer 12

N. Wholeness, purity, uprightness

Question 13

Contend

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V. Struggle, compete, assert earnestly

1.struggle to surmount (a difficulty).
“she had to contend with his uncertain temper”

2.assert something as a position in an argument.
“he contends that the judge was wrong”

Question 14

Contract

Answer 14

Compress or shrink, make pledge

Question 15

Rescind

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V. Cancel

revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).

“the government eventually rescinded the directive”

Question 16

Objective

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N. Goal, aim

Question 17

Accolade

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N. Award of merit

Question 18

Excerpt

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N. Selected passage (written or musical)

Question 19

Coalesce

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V. Combine, fuse

come together to form one mass or whole.
“the puddles hadcoalesced intoshallow streams”

combine (elements) in a mass or whole.
“his idea served tocoalesceall that happenedintoone connected whole”

Question 20

Bleak

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Adj. Cold, cheerless

(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.
(of a building or room) charmless and inhospitable; dreary.
(of the weather) cold and miserable.

Question 21

Blighted

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Adj. Suffering from a disease, destroyed

Question 22

Avarice

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N. Greediness for wealth

extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
“he was rich beyond the dreams of avarice”

Question 23

Hypocritical

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Adj. Pretending to be virtuous, deceiving

Question 24

Hypothetical

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Adj. Based on assumptions or hypothesis

Question 25

Autonomous

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Adj. Self governing

Question 26

Inception

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N. Start, beginning

Question 27

Meager

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Adj. Scanty, inadequate (of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality. (of a person, animal, or part of the body) lean; thin.

Question 28

Constraint

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N. Compulsion, repression of feelings a limitation or restriction. the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint.

Question 29

Nefarious

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Adj. Very wicked

Question 30

Negate

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V. Cancel out, nullify, deny

Question 31

Obscure

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V. Darken, make unclear verb 1.keep from being seen; conceal. "grey clouds obscure the sun" Adjective 1.not discovered or known about; uncertain. "his origins and parentage are obscure" 2.not clearly expressed or easily understood. "obscure references to Proust"

Question 32

Lament

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V. Grieve, express sorrow

Question 33

Marred

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Adj. Damaged, disfigured.

Question 34

Edify

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V. Instruct, correct morally. instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually. "Rachel had edified their childhood with frequent readings from Belloc"

Question 35

Aversion

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N. Firm dislike. a strong dislike or disinclination. "they made plain their aversion to the use of force"

Question 36

Avert

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V. Prevent, turn away.

Question 37

Aviary

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N. Enclosure for birds

Question 38

Materialism

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N. Preoccupation with physical comforts and things

Question 39

Linger

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Loiter or dawdle, contine or persist Loiter: stand or wait around without apparent purpose. Dawdle: waste time; be slow.

Question 40

Distend

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V. Expand, swell out (usually of the stomach or other part of thebody) to swell and become large (as if) bypressure from inside.

Question 41

Asceticism

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N. Doctrine of self denial. severe self-discipline and avoiding of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. "acts of physical asceticism"

Question 42

Adversary

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N. Opponent, enemy

Question 43

Anarchist

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N. Person who rebels against the established order

Question 44

Attribute

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N. Essential quality

Question 45

Beguile

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V. Amuse, delude, cheat 1. charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way 2. help (time) pass pleasantly

Question 46

Condone

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V. Overlook, forgive

Question 47

Abridge

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V. Condense or shorten

Question 48

Brevity

Answer 48

N. Conciseness

Question 49

Braggart

Answer 49

N. Boaster

Question 50

Atrophy

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N. Wasting away