FF Vocabulary 2

Question 1

Abject

Answer 1

Of the most contemptible kind

Question 2

Abberation

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A state or condition markedly different from the norm

Question 3

Abjure

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Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief

Question 4

Abnegation

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The denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief

Question 5

Abrogate

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Revoke formally

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Abscond

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Run away

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Abstruse

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Difficult to penetrate

Question 8

Accede

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Yield to another’s wishes or opinions

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Accost

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Speak to someone

Question 10

Accretian

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An increase by natural growth or addition

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Acumen

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Shrewdness shown by keen insight

Question 12

Adamant

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Impervious to pleas, persuasion, request, reason

Question 13

Admonish

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Take a task

Question 14

Adumbrate

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Describe roughly or give the main points or summary of

Question 15

Adverse

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In an opposing direction

Question 16

Advocate

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A person who pleas for a cause, person, or idea

Question 17

Affluent

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Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

Question 18

Aggrandize

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Add details to

Question 19

Alacrity

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Liveliness and eagerness

Question 20

Alias

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A name that has been assumed temporarily

Question 21

Ambivalent

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Uncertain or undecided on what course to follow

Question 22

Amenable

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Dispose or willing to comply

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Amorphous

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Having no shape or definite volume

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Anachronistic

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Chronologically misplaced

Question 25

Anathema

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a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication

Question 26

Annex

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Attach to

Question 27

Antediluvian

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Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood

Question 28

Antiseptic

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Thoroughly clean and free of disease causing organisms

Question 29

Apathetic

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Showing little or no emotion or animation

Question 30

Antithesis

Answer 30

Exact opposite

Question 31

Apocryphal

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Being of questionable authenticity

Question 32

Approbation

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Official approval

Question 33

Arbitrary

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Based on or subject to individual discretion or preference

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Arboreal

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Resembling a tree in form or branching structure

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Arcane

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Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge

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Archetypal

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Of an original type after which other things are patterned

Question 37

Arrogate

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Seize or take control without authority

Question 38

Ascetic

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Someone who practices self-denial as a spiritual discipline

Question 39

Aspersion

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A disparaging remark

Question 40

Assiduous

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Marked by care or persistent effort

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Atrophy

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A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

Question 42

Bane

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Something causing misery or death

Question 43

Bashful

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Self-consciously timid

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Beguile

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Influence by slyness

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Bereft

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Sorrowful through loss or deprivation

Question 46

Blandishment

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Flattery intended to persuade

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Bilk

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Cheat someone of something out of what is due

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Bombastic

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Ostentatiously lofty in style

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Cajole

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Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

Question 50

Callous

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Having callouses

Question 51

Calummy

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A false accusation of an offense

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Camaraderie

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The quality of affording easy familiarity or sociability

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Candor

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The quality of being honest and straightforward

Question 54

Capitulate

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Surrender under agreed conditions

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Carouse

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Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

Question 56

Carp

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Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae

Question 57

Caucus

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Meet a select candidate or promote a policy

Question 58

Cavort

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Play boisterously

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Circumlocution

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An indirect way of expressing something

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Circumscribe

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To draw a geometric figure around another figure

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Circumvent

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Surround so as to force to give up

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Clamor

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Utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

Question 63

Cleave

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Separate or cut with a tool

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Cobbler

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Someone who makes or repairs shoes

Question 65

Cogent

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Powerfully persuasive

Question 66

Cognizant

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Having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization

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Commensurate

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Corresponding in size or degree or extent

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Complement

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Something added to embellish or make perfect

Question 69

Compunction

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A feeling of deep regret or misdeed