English vocab

Question 0

Blight

Answer 0

Something that weakens, damages or destroys

Question 1

Blatant

Answer 1

Very obvious, often offensively so.

Question 2

Qualm

Answer 2

An uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is

Question 3

Garble

Answer 3

To mix up or confuse (a story of message); scramble

Question 4

Plagiarism

Answer 4

Using someone else’s ideas or writings as one’s own.

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Gloat

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To feel or express delight or self-satisfaction often spitefully

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Contrive

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To plan cleverly, think up

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Retaliate

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To return an injury for an injury, pay back

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Immaculate

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Perfectly clean

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Gaunt

Answer 9

Thin and bony

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Squander

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To waste, spend or use foolishly

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Curtail

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To cut short or reduce

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Incentive

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Something that moves one to take action or work harder, a motivation

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Digress

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To turn aside, or stray, especially from the main topic in speaking or writing.

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Rigor

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Great hardship or difficulty, harshness, severity

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Devastate

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To upset deeply, overwhelm

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Succumb

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To give in, stop resisting

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Indispensable

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Necessary

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Incorporate

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To unite into a single whole, combine

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Intermittent

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Starting and stopping from time to time, off-and-on

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Covert

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Secret, hidden

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Cynic

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A person who believes the worst of people’s behaviour and motives, who believes they are only motivated by selfishness

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Intrinsic

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Belonging to a person or thing by it’s very nature, built in

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Infamous

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Having a very bad reputation, widely known for being vicious, criminal or deserving of contempt

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Benefactor

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A person or an organisation that gives help, especially financial aid

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Virile

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Manly, masculine

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Demise

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Death

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Speculate

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To come up with ideas or theories about a subject, theorize

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Alleviate

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To relieve, make easier or endure

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Revulsion

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Great disgust or distaste

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Aspire

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To strongly desire, go be ambitious (to do or get something)

Question 31

Lucrative

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Profitable, well-paying

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Defecit

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A shortage, a lack (in amount)

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Abstain

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To hold one self back from something, refrain

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Benevolent

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Showing kindness, charitable

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Agnostic

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A person who believes we cannot know if there is a god or not

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Mandatory

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Required

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Diversion

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An amusement or pass time, anything that relaxes or amuses

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Affiliate

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To associate, join

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Dissent

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Disagreement

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Conversely

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In an opposite matter, in an altogether different way.

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Charisma

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The quality of a leader which captures great popular devotion, person magnetism, charm

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Quest

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A search, pursuit

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Prevalent

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Widespread, common

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Contend

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To state to be so, claim, affirm

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Contemporary

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Modern, up-to-date

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Proponent

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Someone who supports a cause

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Poignant

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Emotionally moving, touching

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Traumatic

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Causing painful emotions, with possible long-lasting psychological effects

Question 49

Extrovert

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An outgoing, sociable person