GRE High Frequency Words (Magoosh) Flashcards

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Aberrant

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Deviation from what is normal or expected

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Abstain

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Choose not to consume or take part in

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, incomprehensible

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Accolade

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An award or praise granted as a special honor

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Acerbic

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Harsh in tone

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Acrimony

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Bitterness and ill will

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Adamant

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Refusing to change one’s mind

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Admonish

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To warn strongly, even to the point of reprimanding

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Admonitory

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Serving to warn

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Aesthete

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One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

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Aesthetic

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Concerned with the appreciation of beauty

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Amalgam

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A mixture of multiple things

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Ambiguous

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Open to more than one interpretation

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Ambivalent

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Mixed or conflicting emotions

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Ameliorate

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To make something bad better

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Amenable

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Easily persuaded

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Amorphous

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Shapeless

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Antipathy

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An intense feeling of dislike

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Antithetical

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Sharply contrasted in character or purpose

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Apathetic

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Marked by a lack of interest

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Apocryphal

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Being of questionable authenticity

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Appease

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Pacify by acceding to the demands of

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Arbitrary

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Random, groundless decision

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Arduous

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Strenuous and Taxing

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Artful

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Clever, exhibiting artistic skill

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Ascetic

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One who practices self-denial

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Askance

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A look of suspicion or disapproval

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Audacious

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Willing to be bold in social situations

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Audacity

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Aggressive boldness

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Auspicious

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Favorable

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Austere

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Practicing self-denial; harsh in temperament

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Avaricious

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Excessively greedy

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Banal

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Repeated too often

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Belie

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To give a false representation

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Belligerent

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Characteristic of one eager to fight

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Betray

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To reveal or make something known

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Blatant

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Completely obvious

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Bolster

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To support or strengthen

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Brazen

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Unrestrained

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Bucolic

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Relating to the pleasant aspects of the country

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Bumbling

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Clumsy, especially with hands

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Burgeon

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Grow and flourish

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Calumny

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Make a false statement meant to attack a reputation

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Capricious

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Determined by chance or impulse rather than necessity

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Castigate

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To reprimand harshly

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Censure

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To disapprove strongly

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Chastise

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To reprimand harshly

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Chortle

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To chuckle

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Circumscribe

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To restrict

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Circumvent

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To find away out of one’s duties or obligations

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Commensurate

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To be in proportion in degree or amount

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Concede

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To admit

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Confound

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Be confusing or perplexing to

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Conspicious

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Completely obvious

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Constituent

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An abstract part of something

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Construe

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Interpreted in a particular way

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Contingent

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A gather of persons representative of a larger group

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Contrition

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The feeling of remorse or guilt that comes from doing something bad

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Contrive

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To pull off a plan or scheme

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Copious

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An abundant supply

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Craven

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Cowardly

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Cryptic

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Mysterious or vague

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Culminate

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To reach the highest point

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Culpability

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The state of guilt

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Decorous

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Characterized by good taste

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Decorum

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Propriety in manners and conduct

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Deferential

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Showing respect

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Deleterious

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Harmful to living things

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Delineate

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Describe in detail

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Demur

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To object or show reluctance

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Denigrate

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Attack the good name and reputation of someone

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Denote

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To be a sign or indication of

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Derivative

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Not original but a work of another person

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Dictatorial

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Expecting unquestioning obedience

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Didactic

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Instructive

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Diffident

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Lacking self-confidence

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Dilatory

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Wasting time

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Dilettante

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An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions

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Disaffected

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Discontent towards authority

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Discrete

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A separate entity or part

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Disinterested

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Unbiased, neutral

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Dispassionate

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Unaffected by strong emotions or prejudice

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Disseminate

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Cause to become widely known

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Dogmatic

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Not accepting your belief may not be correct

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Duress

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Compulsory force or threat

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Eclectic

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Comprised of a variety of styles

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Economical

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Efficient

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Edifying

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Enlightening or uplifting

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Efficacious

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producing the intended result

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Egregious

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Shockingly bad

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Elicit

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Call forth (emotions and feelings)

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Elucidate

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Make clearer

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Eminent

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Standing above others in quality

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Enervate

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To sap energy from

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Engender

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Give rise to

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Entrenched

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Fixed firmly or securely

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Ephemeral

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Brief and fleeting

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Equivocal

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Confusing or ambiguous

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Eradicate

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To completely destroy

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Erudite

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Profound knowledge

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Eschew

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Avoid and stay away from

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Esoteric

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Confined to and understandable only by a small circle

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Espouse

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To adopt or support an idea or cause

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Exacerbate

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To make worse

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Exacting

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Requiring and demanding accuracy

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Exalt

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Praise or glorify

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Exonerate

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Pronounce not guilty

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Expound

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Add details or explanation

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Extant

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Still living (opposite of extinct)

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Fallacious

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Belief that is based on faulty reasoning

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Fastidious

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Overly concerned with details, fussy

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Flux

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A state of uncertainty about what should be done

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Foment

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Try to stir up public opinion

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Forlorn

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Marked by or showing hopelessness

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Forthcoming

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At ease in talking to others

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Fortuitious

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Occurring by happy chance

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Frivolous

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Not serious in content or attitude or behavior

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Frugal

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Not spending much money

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Frustrate

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Hinder or prevent

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Furtive

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Quiet, caution, and secrecy

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Gainsay

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Deny or contradict, speak against or oppose

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Gail

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The trait of being rude and impertinent, deep and bitter anger

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Galvanize

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To excite or inspire to action

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Garrulous

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Full of trivial conversation

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Gauche

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Lacking social polish

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Germane

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Relavent and appropriate

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Glut

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Excessive supply

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Gossamer

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Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy

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Gregarious

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Likely to socialize with others

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Guileless

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Free of deceit

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Hackneyed

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Lacking significance after becoming overused

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Haphazard

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Marked by great carlessness

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Harangue

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Long pompous speech, tirade

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Harried

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Troubled persistently with petty annoyances

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Haughty

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Having or showing arrogant superiority

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Hegemony

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Consistant dominance of one state over another

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Heretic

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A person who holds unorthodox opinions

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Iconoclast

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One who attacks beliefs or institutions

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Idiosyncrasy

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Behavioral attribute distinct and peculiar to one person

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Ignoble

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Dishonorable

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Ignominious

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Deserving or bringing disgrace and shame

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Immutable

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Not able to be changed

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Impartial

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Free from undue bias or preconceived opinipns

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Impertient

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Being disrespectful

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Implacable

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Incapable of making less angry or hostile

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Implausible

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Describing a statement that is not believable

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Imprudent

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Not wise

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Impudent

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Improperly forward

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Incisive

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Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

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Incongruous

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Lacking in harmony or compatability

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Incorrigible

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Impervious to correction by punishment

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Indecorous

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Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper

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Indifference

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Seeming not to care

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Inexorable

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Impossible to stop or prevent

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Ingenuous

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To be naive and innocent

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Ingratiate

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Gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts

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Inimical

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Hostile conditions

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Innocuous

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Harmless with no ill effects

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Inscrutable

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Not easily understood

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Insidious

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Working in a subtle but destructive way

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Insolent

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Rude and arrogant

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Intimate

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To suggested something subtly

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Intransigent

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Unwilling to change one’s beliefs

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Intrepid

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Fearless

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Involved

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Complicated and difficult to comprehend

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Irrevocable

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Incapable of being retracted or revoked

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Itinerant

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Traveling from place to place to work

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Jingoism

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Fanatical patriotism

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Jovial

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High spirited merriment

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Jubilant

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Full of high-spirited delight because of triumph or success

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Juxtapose

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Place side by side

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Laconic

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One who says very few words

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Lambast

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Criticize several or angrily

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Languid

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Not inclined towards physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed

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Largess

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Extreme generosity and giving

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Laudable

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Worthy of high praise

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Lionize

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Assign great importance to

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Magnanimous

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Noble and generous in spirit

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Maintain

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To assert

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Maladroit

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Clumsy, with hands

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Maverick

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Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

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Mawkish

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Overly sentimental to the point that it is disgusting

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Mendacity

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Untruthful

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Mercurial

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Unexpected and unpredictable changes in mood

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Miscontrue

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Interpret in the wrong way

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Mitigate

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Lessen the severity of an offense

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Mollify

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To make someone angry less angry

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Mundane

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Repetitive and boring

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Munifcent

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Very generous

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Myopic

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Lacking foresight

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Myriad

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A large indefinite number

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Nonplussed

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Unsure how to act or respond

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Nuance

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A subtle difference in meaning or opinion

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Obscure

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Make unclear

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Obsequious

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Attentive in a servile manner; attempting to win favor by flattery

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Opaque

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Not clearly understood

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Opulence

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Wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living

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Ostentatious

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Intended to attract notice and impress others

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Ostracize

A

Exclude from a community or group

201
Q

Panache

A

Distinctive and stylish elegance

202
Q

Parochial

A

Restricted in scope or outlook

203
Q

Parsimonious

A

Extremely frugal

204
Q

Pedantic

A

Focusing on trivial details of learning

205
Q

Pedestrian

A

Lacking imagination

206
Q

Pejorative

A

Expressing disapproval

207
Q

Perfidy

A

An act of deliberate betrayal, beach of trust

208
Q

Pernicious

A

Exceedingly harmful

209
Q

Petulant

A

Easily irritated or annoyed

210
Q

Placate

A

Gain the good will of

211
Q

Platitude

A

Trite or obvious remark

212
Q

Poignant

A

Emotionally touching

213
Q

Polemic

A

A strong verbal or written attack

214
Q

Posit

A

Assume as a fact

215
Q

Pragmatic

A

Practical experience and observation rather than theory

216
Q

Precipituous

A

Done with very great haste and without due deliberation

217
Q

Preclude

A

Keep from happening or arising

218
Q

Precocious

A

Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity

219
Q

Predilection

A

A strong liking

220
Q

Prescience

A

Power to forsee the future`

221
Q

Prevaricate

A

To speak in an evasive way

222
Q

Prodigal

A

Wastefully extravagant

223
Q

Prodigious

A

So great in size or force

224
Q

Profligate

A

Recklessly wasteful

225
Q

Prolific

A

Intellectually productive

226
Q

Propitious

A

presenting favorable circumstances

227
Q

Provincial

A

Characteristic of the limited perspective

228
Q

Pundit

A

Someone who is a member in a scholarly field

229
Q

Qualify

A

To make less sever or to limit

230
Q

Querulous

A

Habitually complaining

231
Q

Quotidian

A

Ordinary course of events

232
Q

Ravenous

A

Extremely hungry

233
Q

Rebuke

A

Criticize severely, censure

234
Q

Reconcile

A

To make one thing compatible with another

235
Q

Recondite

A

Incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding

236
Q

Refractory

A

Stubbornly resistant to authority or control

237
Q

Refute

A

Prove to be false or incorrect

238
Q

Reproach

A

To express criticism towards

239
Q

Repudiate

A

Reject as untrue or unfounded

240
Q

Rescind

A

Cancel officially

241
Q

Restive

A

Restless

242
Q

Resurgent

A

Rising again as to new life and vigor

243
Q

Reticent

A

Reluctant to draw attention to yourself

244
Q

Reverent

A

Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration

245
Q

Rudimentary

A

Being in the earliest stages of development

246
Q

Rustic

A

Characteristic of rural life

247
Q

Sanction

A

Give authority or permission to

248
Q

Scrupulous

A

Characterized by extreme care and great effort

249
Q

Soporific

A

Inducing sleep

250
Q

Specious

A

Deceptively pleasing (suspicious)

251
Q

Sporadic

A

Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances

252
Q

Spurious

A

Plausible but false

253
Q

Staunch

A

Firm and dependable

254
Q

Stringent

A

Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

255
Q

Subsume

A

Contain or include

256
Q

Subversive

A

In opposition to a civil authority or government

257
Q

Sullen

A

Showing a brooding ill humor

258
Q

Superfluous

A

Serving no useful purpose

259
Q

Supplant

A

Take the place or move into the position of

260
Q

Sycophant

A

A parasite

261
Q

Taciturn

A

Habitually reserved and uncommunicative

262
Q

Tantamount

A

Being essentially equal to something

263
Q

Temperance

A

Trait of avoiding excesses

264
Q

Tempered

A

Moderated in effect

265
Q

Tenacious

A

Stubbornly unyielding

266
Q

Timorous

A

Timid by nature or revealing fear and nervousness

267
Q

Torpor

A

Inactivity from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy

268
Q

Tortuous

A

Twisting and winding

269
Q

Tractable

A

Readily reacting to suggestions and influences

270
Q

Transient

A

Lasting a very short time

271
Q

Travesty

A

An absurd presentation of something

272
Q

Treacherous

A

Tending to betray

273
Q

Trite

A

Repeated too often; overfamiliar

274
Q

Truncate

A

Reduce the length of something

275
Q

Undermine

A

To weaken

276
Q

Underscore

A

Give extra weight to

277
Q

Unequivocal

A

Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding

278
Q

Unscrupulous

A

Without principles

279
Q

Upbraid

A

To censure, to scold

280
Q

Vacillate

A

To waver between conflicting positions

281
Q

Vehement

A

Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions

282
Q

Venality

A

The condition of being susceptible to brines or corruption

283
Q

Venerate

A

To respect deeply

284
Q

Veracious

A

Truthful

285
Q

Vilify

A

Spread negative information about

286
Q

Vindicate

A

To clear of accusation, blame, suspicion

287
Q

Vociferous

A

Conspicuously and offensively loud

288
Q

Volubility

A

The quality of talking or writing easily and continuously

289
Q

Wanting

A

Lacking