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High Frequency Box 1 Flashcards

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Aberrant

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Adj

Syn: abnormal or deviant

Eg: Given the aberrant nature of the data, we came to doubt the validity of the entire experiment

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Abate

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Syn: subside or moderate

Ant: alienate, increase, extend, amplify, continue

Eg: Rather than leave immediately, they waited for the storm to abate

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Abeyance

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Noun

Syn: suspended action

Ant: continuance

Eg: The deal was held in abeyance until her arrival

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Absconded

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Syn: depart secretly and hide

Ant: appear, emerge, show, stay, remain

Eg: The teller absconded with the bonds and was not found

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Abstemious

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Adj

Syn: sparing in eating and drinking, temperate

Ant: intemperate,gluttonous

Eg: Concerned whether her vegetarian son’s abstemious diet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him

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Admonished

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Syn: warn, reprove

Ant: acclaim, commend, praise, compliment, countenance

Eg: He admonished his listeners to change their wicked ways.

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Adulterate

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Syn: To make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances

Ant: purify, refine, improve, free

Eg: It is a crime to adulterate foods without informing the buyer.

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Aesthetic

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Syn: artistic: dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful

Eg: The beauty of Tiffany’s stained glass appealed to Alice’s aesthetic sense

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Aggregate

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Syn: sum, total, gather, accumulate

Ant: separate, dissipate, disperse, divide, segregate

Eg: The aggregate wealth of this country is staggering to the imagination

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Alacrity

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Syn: cheerfulness, promptness, eagerness

Ant: slowness, repugnance, reluctance, unwillingness

Eg: He demonstrated his eagerness to serve by his alacrity in executing the orders of his master

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Alleviate

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Syn: relieve

Ant: exacerbate, aggravate, increase, augment, embitter

Eg: This should alleviate the pain; if it does not, we shall use stronger drugs.

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Amalgamate

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Syn: combine, unite in one body

Ant: separate, decompose, disintegrate, disunite

Eg: The unions will attempt to amalgamate their groups into one national body

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Ambiguous

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Syn: unclear or doubtful in meaning

Ant: indisputable, obvious, unequivocal, unambiguous

Eg: His ambiguous instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take!

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Ambivalence

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Syn: the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes

Eg: Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings

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Ameliorate

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Syn: Improve

Ant: injure, spoil, mar, debase, deteriorate

Eg: Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums

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Anachronism

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Syn: something or someone misplaced in time

Eg: Shakespeare’s reference to clock in Julius Caesar is an anachronism; no clocks exited in Caesar’s time.

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Analogous

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Syn: comparable

Eg: She called our attention to the things that had been done in analogous situation and recommended that we do the same

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Anarchy

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Syn: absence of governing body, state of disorder

Ant: ruler, order

Eg: The assassination of the leaders led to a period of anarchy.

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Anomalous

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Syn: abnormal, irregular, aberrant.

Ant: usual

Eg: He was placed in the anomalous position of seeming to approve procedures that he despised

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Antipathy

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Syn: Aversion, Dislike

Ant: affinity, amity, sympathy, attraction, harmony

Eg: His extreme antipathy for dispute caused him to avoid argumentative discussions with his friends!

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Apathy

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Syn: lack of caring, indifference

Ant: passion, sensibility, care

Eg: A firm believer in democratic government, she could not understand the apathy of people who never bothered to vote

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Appease

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Syn: to pacify, soothe

Ant: embitter, annoy, irritate, perturb, roil

Eg: We have discovered that, when we try to appease our enemies, we encourage them to make additional demands.

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Apprised

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Syn: inform

Eg: When he was apprised of the dangerous weather conditions, he decided to postpone the trip

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Approbation

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Syn: approval

Ant: disapprobation, denial, censure, refusal

Eg: Wanting her parents regard, she looked for some sign of their approbation.

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Appropriated

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Syn: Acquire, take possession of for one’s own use

Eg: The ranch owners appropriated the lands that had originally been set aside for the Indian’s use.

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Arduous

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Syn: hard, strenuous

Eg: Her arduous efforts had sapped her energy!

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Artless

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Syn: Without guile, open and honest

Eg: Red Riding Hood’s artless comment “Grandma, what big eyes you have!” Indicates the child’s innocent surprise at her “grandmother’s changed appearance

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Ascetic

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Syn: practicing self denial, austere

Ant: hedonist

Eg: The wealthy young man could not understand the ascetic life led by the monks

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Assiduous

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Syn: Diligent

Eg: It took Rembrandt weeks to assiduous labor before he was satisfied with his portrait of his son

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Assuage

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Syn: ease, lessen(pain)

Ant: estrange, excite, increase, inflame, incite, stimulate

Eg: Your messages of cheer should assuage her suffering.

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Attenuate

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Syn: make thin, weaken

Eg: By withdrawing their forces, the generals hoped to attenuate the enemy lines

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Audacious

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Syn: daring, bold

Ant: cowardly, timid, feckless, diffident, introverted

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Austere

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Syn: strict,stern

Ant:Indulgent,genial,luxurious,mild,dissipated

Eg: His austere demeanor prevented us from engaging in our usual frivolous activities.

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Autonomous

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Syn:Self-governing

Eg: This island is a colony, however, in most matters, it is autonomous and receives no orders from the mother country

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Aver

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Syn: state confidently

Eg: I wish to aver that i am certain of success.

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Banal

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Syn: hackneyed,commonplace, trite

Eg: His frequent use of cliches made his essay seem banal

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Belied

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Syn: contradict, give a false impression

Eg: His coarse,hard bitten exterior belied his innate sensitivity

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Beneficent

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Syn: kindly, doing good

Eg: The overgenerous philanthropist had to curb his beneficent impulses before he gave away all his money and left himself nothing.

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Burnished

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Syn: make shiny by rubbing, polish

Eg: The maid burnished the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight

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Buttress

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Syn:support,prop up

Eg: Just as architects buttress the walls of cathedrals with flying buttress,debaters buttress their arguments with the facts.

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Boorish

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Syn:rude, insensitive

Eg: Though Mr.Potts constantly interrupted his wife, she ignored his boorish behavior,for she had lost hope of teaching him country.

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Burgeon

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Syn: grow forth,send out buds

Ant: Atrophy

Eg: In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty that is to come.

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Bolster

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Syn: support, reinforce

Eg: The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolster their arguments.

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Bombastic

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Syn: pompous,using inflated language

Eg: Puffed up with conceit, the orator spoke in such a bombastic manner that we longed to debate him.

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Cacophonous

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Syn: discordant,inharmonious

Ant: euphonious

Eg: Do the students in the orchestra enjoy the cacophonous sounds they make when they are turning up?

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Capricious

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Syn: fickle,incalculable

Eg: The storm was capricious and changed course constantly

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Castigation

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Syn: punishment,severe,criticism

Ant: exalt

Eg: Sensitive even to mild criticism woolf could not even bear castigation that she found in certain reviews.

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Catalyst

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Syn: agent that brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged

Eg: Many chemical reactions cannot take place without the presence of a catalyst

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Caustic

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Syn: Burning, sarcastically biting

Eg: The critics caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subject of his sarcasm

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Chicanery

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Syn: trickery, deception

Ant: honesty

Eg: Your deceitful tactics in this case are indications of chicanery.

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Coagulate

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Verb

Syn: thicken, congeal, clot

Ant: rarefy,expand,dissipate, thin, liquefy

Eg: Even after you remove the pudding from the burner, it will continue to coagulate as it stands

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Coda

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Syn: concluding section of a musical or literary composition

Eg: The piece concluded with a distinctive coda that strikingly brought together various motifs

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Cogent

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Syn: Convincing

Ant: Weal,Feeble,Powerless,ineffectual

Eg: She presented cogent arguments to the jury

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Commensurate

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Syn: Equal in extent

Eg: Your reward will be commensurate with your effort

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Compendium

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Syn: brief, comprehensive summary

Eg: This text can serve as a compendium of the tremendous amount of new material being developed in this field.

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Complaisant

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Syn: trying to please, obliging

Eg: The courtier obeyed the kings order in a complaisant manner

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Compliant

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Syn: yielding

Ant: immutable

Eg: He was compliant and ready to go along with his friends desires

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Conciliatory

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Syn: Reconciling, soothing

Eg: She was still angry despite his conciliatory words

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Condoned

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Syn: overlook, forgive, give tactic approval, excuse

Eg: Unlike Widow Douglass, who condoned Huck’s minor offenses, Miss Watson did nothing but scold,

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Confound

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Syn: confuse, puzzle

Ant: elucidate, unravel, arrange, classify, enlighten

Eg: No mystery could confound Sherlock Homes for long

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Connoisseur

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Syn: person competent to act as judge of art,etc; a lover of an art

Eg: She had developed into a connoisseur of fine china

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Contention

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Syn: claim, thesis

Eg: It is our contention that, if you follow our tactics, you will boost your score on the GRE.

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Contentious

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Syn: quarrelsome

Ant: congenial,obliging, considerate, easy, passive

Eg: We heard loud and contentious noises in the next room.

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Contrite

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Syn: penitent

Ant: lacking remorse, unrepentant

Eg: Her contrite tears did not influence the judge when he imposed sentence

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Conundrum

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Syn: riddle,difficult problem

Eg: During the long car ride, she invented conundrums to entertain the children

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Converge

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Syn: Come together

Ant: Diverge

Eg: Marchers converged on Washington for the great Save Our Cities-Save Our Children March

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Convoluted

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Syn: coiled around, involved, intricate

Ant: Direct, straight

Eg: His argument was so convoluted that few of us could follow it intelligently.

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Craven

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Syn: cowardly

Ant: intrepid, bold

Eg: When he saw the enemy troops advancing, he had a craven impulse to run for his life

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Daunt

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Syn: intimidate

Ant: embolden, encourage, inspire

Eg: Your threats cannot daunt me

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Decorum

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Syn: propriety, orderliness

Ant: disorder, improperly, disturbance

Eg: Shocked by the unruly behavior the teacher criticized the class for its lack of decorum

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Default

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Syn: Failure to do

Eg: As a result of her husbands failure to appear in court, she was granted a divorce by default

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Deference

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Syn: courteous regard for another’s wish

Eg: In deference to his desires, the employers granted him a holiday.

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Delineate

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Syn: portray

Ant: confuse

Eg: He is weakest when he attempts to delineate character

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Denigrate

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Syn: blacken

Ant: panegyrize

Eg: All attempts to denigrate the character of our late president have failed, the people still love him and cherish his memory

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Deride

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Syn: scoff, a ridicule, make fun of

Ant: applaud

Eg: The people derided his grandiose schemes

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Derivative

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Syn: unoriginal, obtained from another source

Eg: Although her early poetry was clearly derivative in nature, the critics thought she had promise and eventually would find her own voice

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Desiccate

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Syn: dry up

Eg: A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to desiccate food in order to preserve it

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Desultory

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Syn: aimless, haphazard, digressing at random

Ant: consecutive, serious, methodical, diligent, painstaking

Eg: In prison Malcom X set himself the task of reading straight through the dictionary, to him reading was purposeful, not desultory

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Deterrent

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Syn: something that discourages, hindrance

Eg: Does the threat of capital punishment serve as a deterrent to potential killers

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Diatribe

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Syn: bitter scolding, invective, deunciation

Eg: During the lengthy diatribe delivered by his opponent he remained calm and self controlled.

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Dichotomy

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Syn: branching into two parts(especially contradictory ones), split

Eg: The dichotomy of our legislative system provides us with many safeguards

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Diffidence

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Syn: Shyness

Ant: Audacity, Arrogance, Confidence

Eg: You must overcome your diffidence if you intend to become a salesperson

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Diffuse

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Syn: Wordy,rambling, spread out(like a gas)

Ant: terse, laconic, epigrammatic, condensed, concise

Eg: If you pay authors by the word, you tempt them to produce diffuse manuscripts rather than brief ones.

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Digression

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Syn: wandering away from the subject

Eg: Nobody minded when professor Renoir’s lectures wandered away from their official theme, his digressions were always more fascinating than the topic of the day

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Dirge

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Syn: lament with music

Eg: The funeral dirge stirred us to tears

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Disabuse

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Syn: correct a false impression, undeceive

Eg: I will attempt to disabuse you of your impression of my client’s guilt, I know he is innocent

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Discerning

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Syn: mentally quick and observant, having insight

Ant: obtuse

Eg: Because he was considered the most discerning member of the firm, he was assigned the most difficult cases

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Discordant

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Syn: inharmonious, conflicting

Eg: Nothing is quite so discordant as the sound of a junior orchestra tuning up

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Discredit

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Syn: defame, destroy confidence in, disbelieve

Ant: credit, honor,trust, belief

Eg: The campaign was highly negative in tone, each candidate tried to discredit the other

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Discrepancy

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Syn: lack of consistency, difference

Ant: agreement, consonance

Eg: The police noticed some discrepancy in his description of the crime and did not believe him.

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Discrete

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Syn: separate, unconnected

Eg: The universe is composed of discrete bodies

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Disingenuous

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Syn:not naive,sophisticated

Eg: Although he was young, his remarks indicated that he was disingenuous

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Disinterested

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Adj

Syn: unprejudiced

Eg: The only disinterested person in the room was judge

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Disjointed

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Adj

Syn: disconnected

Eg: His remarks were so disjointed that we could not follow his reasoning

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Dismiss

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Verb

Syn: eliminate from consideration, reject

Ant: Retain, detain, keep

Eg: Believing in John’s love fro her, she dismissed the notion that he might be unfaithful

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Disparage

A

Verb

Syn: belittle

Ant: Tout

Eg: Do not disparage anyone’s contribution, these little gifts add up to large sums

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disparate

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adj

syn:basically different,unrelated

Eg: it is difficult, it not impossible to organize these disparate elements into a coherent whole

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Dissemble

A

verb

syn: disguise pretend

Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking modern dance we all knew he was there not to dance but to meet girls

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Disseminate

A

Verb

syn:distribute: spread:scatter (like seeds)

The invention of the radio helped propagandists to disseminate their favorite doctrines very easily

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Dissolution

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Noun
syn: disintegration: looseness in morals

The profligacy and dissolution of life in Caligula’s Rome appall some his torians

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Dissonance

A

Noun

syn:discord

some contemporary musicians deliberately use dissonance to achieve certain effects

101
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Distend

A

verb

syn:expand swell out

Ant: contract, reduce, shrink

Eg: I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forehead.

102
Q

Distill

A

verb

syn:purify:refine:concentrate

A moonshiner distills mash into whiskey :an epigrammatist distills thoughts into quips

103
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Diverge

A

Verb

syn: vary:go in different directions from the same point
ant: converge

The spokes of the wheel diverge from the hub

104
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Divest

A

Verb

syn: strip:deprive
ant: invest

He was divested of his power to act and could no longer govem

105
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Dogmatic

A

Adj

syn:opinionated arbitrary :doctrinal

Do not be so dogmatic about that statement :it can be easily refuted

106
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Dormant

A

Adj

syn: sleeping,lethargic,torpid
ant: operative, energetic,vigilant

Eg: Sometimes dormant talents in our friends surprise those of us who never realize how gifted our acquaintances really are.

107
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Dupe

A

Noun

Syn: someone easily fooled

Eg: While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock was far more difficult to fool.

108
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Ebullient

A

Adj

Syn: showing excitement, overflowing with enthusiasm

Ant: lackluster

Eg: His ebullient nature could not be repressed

109
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Eclectic

A

Adj

Syn: selective, composed of elements drawn from disparate sources

Eg: His style of interior decoration was eclectic bits and pieces of furnishings from widely divergent periods.

110
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Efficacy

A

Noun

Syn: power tot produce desire effect

Ant: inefficiency, uselessness, futility

Eg: The efficacy of thus drug depends on the regularity of the dosage

111
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Effrontery

A

Noun

Syn: shameless boldness

Ant: diffidence

Eg: She had the effrontery to insult the guest

112
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Elegy

A

Noun

Syn: poem or song expressing lamentation

Eg: One the death of Edward King, Milton composed the elegy “Lycidas”

113
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Elicit

A

Verb

Syn: draw out by discussion

Ant: Draw in

Eg: The detectives tried to elicit where he had hidden his loot.

114
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Embellished

A

Verb

Syn: adorn, ornament

Ant: disfigure, deface, mar

Eg: My mother in law’s stories about her journey from Russia made us laugh because she embellished the bare facts of her journey with humorous anecdotes

115
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Empirical

A

Adj

Syn: based on experience

Eg: He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on empirical data

116
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Emulate

A

Verb

Syn: rival, imitate

Eg: As long as our political leaders emulate the virtues of the great leaders of this country, we shall flourish

117
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Endemic

A

Adj

syn: prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country

This disease is endemic in this part of the world : more than 80 percent of the population are at one time or another affected by it

118
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Enervated

A

Verb

Syn: Weaken

Eg: She was slow to recover from her illness, even a short walk to window enervated her

119
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Engenders

A

Verb

Syn: cause, produce

Eg: To receive praise fro real accomplishments engenders self confidence in a child

120
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Enhanced

A

Verb

Syn: increase, improve

Eg: Your chances for promotion in this department will be enhanced if you take some more courses in evening school

121
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Ephemeral

A

Adj

Syn: short-lived, fleeting

Ant: perpetual, endless, eternal, enduring, permanent

Eg: The mayfly is an ephemeral creature

122
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Equanimity

A

Noun

Syn: calmness of temperament

Ant: ignorant

Eg: In his later years, he could look upon the foolishness of the world with equanimity and humor.

123
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Equivocate

A

Verb

Syn: lie, mislead, attempt to conceal the truth

Ant: Distinguish

Eg: The audience saw through his attempts to equivocate on the subject under discussion and ridiculed his remarks.

124
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Erudite

A

Adj

Syn: learned, scholarly

Eg: Though his fellow students thought him erudite, Paul knew he would have to spend many years in serious study before he could consider himself a scholar

125
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Esoteric

A

Adj

syn: hard to understand; known only to the chosen few

New Yorker short stories often include esoteric allusions to obscure people and events the implications is if you are in the in-crowd,you’ll get the reference: if you come from Cleveland, you won’t

126
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Eulogy

A

Noun

syn: praise
ant: calumny

All the eulogies of his friends could not remove the sting of the calumny heaped upon him his enemies

127
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Euphemism

A

Now

syn:mild expression in place of an unpleasant one

The expression “he passed away” is a euphemism for “he died”

128
Q

Exacerbate

A

Verb

syn: worsen:embitter
ant: alleviate, soothe

This latest arrest will exacerbate the already existing discontent of the people and enrage them

129
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Exculpate

A

Verb

syn:clear from blame

ant:incriminate
He was exculpated of the crime when real criminal confessed

130
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Exigency

A

Noun

syn: urgent situation

in this exigency, we must look for aid from our allies

131
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Extrapolation

A

Noun

syn:projection: conjecture

Based on their extrapolation from the results of the primaries on super Tuesday, the networks predicted that George Bush would be Repubilcan candidate for the presidency

132
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Facetious

A

Adj

syn: humorous:jocular
ant: grave,serious,dull, lugubrious.

Your facetious remarks are not appropriate at this serious moment.

133
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Faciliate

A

verb

syn:make less difficult

He tried to facilitate repayment of the loan by getting a part- time job

134
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Fallacious

A

Adj

syn: misleading

paradoxically , fallacious reasoning does not always yield erroneous results :even though your logic may be correct.

135
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Fatuous

A

Adj

syn: foolish:inane
ant: intelligent clever .sensible. knowledgeable.

He is far too intelligent to utter such fatuous remarks

136
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Fawning

A

Adj

syn: courting favor by cringing and flattering.

She was constantly surrounded by a group of fawning admires who had hoped to win some favor.

137
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Felicitous

A

Adj

syn: apt:suitably expressed well chosen
ant: unfortunate

He was famous for his felicitous remarks and was called upon to serve as master- of-ceremonies at many a banquet.

138
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Fervor

A

Noun

syn:glowing ardor: intensity of feeling

Their kiss was full of the fervor of first love’

139
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Flag

A

verb

syn:droop:grow feeble

when the opposing hockey team scored its third goal only minutes into the period, the home team’s spirits flagged.

140
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Fledgling

A

Adj

syn: inexperienced

while it is necessary to provide these fledgling poets with an opportunity to present their work ,it is not essential that we admire everything they write.

141
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Flout

A

Verb

Syn: reject,mock

Eg: The headstrong youth flouted all authority; he refused to be curbed

142
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Foment

A

Verb

Syn: Stir up, Instigate

Eg: This report will foment dissension in the club

143
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Forestall

A

Verb

Syn:prevent by taking action in advance

Eg: By setting up a prenuptial agreement, the prospective bride and groom hoped to forestall any potential arguments about money in the event of a divorce

144
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Frugality

A

Noun

Syn: thrift, economy

Ant: altruistic

Eg: In these economically difficult days business must practice frugality or risk bankruptcy

145
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Futile

A

Adj

Syn: ineffective, fruitless

Ant: effective, powerful, cogent, useful,solid,capable

Eg: Why waste your time on futile pursuits?

146
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Gainsay

A

Verb

Syn: deny

Ant: affirm, verify, confirm, attest, witness

Eg: She was too honest to gainsay the truth of the report

147
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Garrulous

A

Adj

Syn: excessively talkative, especially about unimportant subjects; wordy

Ant: silent, speechless, taciturn

Eg: Many club members avoided the company of the garrulous junior executive because his constant chatter bored them to tears

148
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Goad

A

Verb

Syn: urge on

Eg: He was goaded by his friends until he yielded to their wishes

149
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Gouge

A

Verb

Syn: tear out, overcharge

Eg: In that fight, all the rules were forgotten the adversaries bit, kicked and tried to gouge each others eyes out.

150
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Grandiloquent

A

Adj

Syn: pompous, bombastic, using high sounding language

Ant: humble, unpretentious, plain, unadorned

Eg: The politician could never speak simply; she was always grandiloquent

151
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Gregarious

A

Adj

Syn: sociable, a person who enjoys companionship

Eg: Typically party throwers are gregarious, hermits are not.

152
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Guileless

A

Adj

Syn: without deceit

Eg: He is naive, simple, and guileless he cannot be guilty of fraud

153
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Gullible

A

Adj

Syn: easily deceived

Ant: discerning

Eg: He preyed upon gulible people who believed his stories of easy wealth

154
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Harangue

A

Noun

Syn: long, passionate and vehement speech

Eg: In her lengthy harangue, the principal breathed the offenders.

155
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Homogeneous

A

Adj

Syn: of the same kind

Eg: Many educators try to put pupils of similar abilities in the same class because they believe that their homogeneous grouping is advisable

156
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Hyperbole

A

Noun

Syn: exaggeration, overstatement

Eg: This salesman is guilty of hyperbole in describing his product, it is wise to discount the claims

157
Q

Iconoclastic

A

A trdj
syn: attacking cherished traditions

ant: traditionalist

Eg: George Bernard shaw’s iconoclastic plays often startled more conventional people

158
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Idolatry

A

Noun

syn: worship of idols: excessive admiration

Eg: such idolatry of singers of country music is typical of the excessive enthu.siasm of youth

159
Q

Impair

A

Verb

syn; worsen:diminish in value

ant:enhance, improve, augment, repair, increase,build up, perfect

Eg: This arrest will impair her reputation in the community

160
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Immutable

A

Adj
syn: unchangeable

ant:compliant

Eg: scientists are constantly seeking to discover the immutable laws of nature.

162
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Impassive

A

Adj

syn:without feeling :not affected by pain

Eg: The Native American has been incorrectly depicted as an impassive individual,undemonstrative and stoical

163
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Impede

A

verb

syn:hinder,block

Eg: The special prosecutor determined That the Attlorney General though inept, had not intentionally set out to impede the progress of then investigation.

164
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Impermeable

A

adj

syn:impervious:not permitting passage through its substance.

Eg: This new material is impermeable to liquids.

165
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Imperturbable

A

Adj

syn:calm:placid

Eg: wellington remained imperturbable and in full command of the situation in spite of the situation in spite of the hysteria and panic all around all around him’

166
Q

Imperviou

A

Adj

syn: not penetrable: not permitting passage through
ant: explorable, pregnable

Eg: you cannot change their habits for their minds are impervious to reasoning.

167
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Implacable

A

Adj

syn: incapable of being pacified

Eg: Madame Defarge was the implacable enemy of the Evremonde family.

167
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Implicit

A

Adj

syn: understood but not stated

Eg; Jack never told Jill adored her; he believed his love was implicit in his deeds.

168
Q

Implode

A

verb

syn; burst inward

Eg; If you break a vacuum tube, the glass tube implodes.

169
Q

Inadertenty

A

Adverb

syn;carelessly; unintentionally; by oversight

Eg;she inadvertently omitted two questions on the examination and mismarked her answer sheet.

170
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Inchoate

A

Adj;

syn;recently begun, redimentary; elementary

Eg;Before the creation, the world was an inchoate mass.

171
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Incongruity

A

Noun

syn;lack of harmony; absurdity

Eg; The incongruity of his wearing sneakers with formal attire amused the observers.

172
Q

Inconsequential

A

Adj

syn; insignificant ;unimportant

Eg; Brushing off Ali’s apologies for having broken the wine glass , Tamara said,” Don’t worry about it; it’s inconsequential,”

173
Q

Incorporate

A

verb

syn;introduce something into a large whole; combine; unit

Eg;Breaking with precedent, president Truman ordered the military to incorporate blacks into every branch of the armed services.

174
Q

Indeterminate

A

Adj

syn;uncertain; not clearly fixed indefinite

Eg;That interest rates shall rise appears certain; when they will do so however ,remains indeterminate.

175
Q

Indigence

A

noun

syn; Poverty

ant; affluent

Eg;Neither the economists nor the political scientists have found a way to wipe out the indigence from our society.

176
Q

Indolent

A

Adj
syn; lazy couch potato

ant; dynamic, energetic

Eg;Couch potatoes lead an indolent life lying back in their Lazy boy recliners watching TV.

177
Q

Inert

A

Adj

syn;inactive;lacking power to move

Eg;”Get up you lazy bones”, Tina cried to tony who lay in bed ,who lay in bed inert.

178
Q

Ingenous

A

Adj

syn;naive; young and unsophisticated

ant; disingenuous ,sly, reserved , mean, insincere,crafty ,cunning ,urbane

The; woodsman did not realize how ingenuous little Red Riding Hood was until he heard that she had gone off for a walk in the woods with the Big Bad Wolf.

179
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Inherent

A

Adj

syn; firmly established by nature or habit

ant; acquired

Eg; His inherent love of justice compelled him to their aid.

180
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Innocuous

A

Adj

Syn: harmless

ant: hurtful, injurious, stimulating

Eg: Let him drink it, it is innocuous and will have no ill effect.

181
Q

Insensible

A

Adj

Syn: unconscious,unresponsive

Eg: Sherry and I are very different, at times when i would be covered with embarrassment she seems insensible to shame

182
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Insinuate

A

Verb

Syn: hint, imply

Ant: state, affirm, propound, announce, withdraw, retract, extract

Eg: What are you trying to insinuate by that remark?

183
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Insipid

A

Adj

Syn: lacking in flavor, dull

Ant: racy, intense, strong, full-flavored, bright sparkling

Eg: Flat prose and flat ginger ale are equally insipid, both lack sparkle

184
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Insularity

A

Noun

Syn: narrow-mindedness, isolation

Eg: The insularity of the islanders manifested itslef in their suspicion of any foreign thing.

185
Q

Intractable

A

Adj

Syn: unruly, refractory

Eg: The horse was intractable and refused to enter the starting gate

186
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Intransigence

A

Noun

Syn: state of stubborn unwillingness to compromise

Ant: Inclination

Eg: The intransigence of both parties in the dispute makes an early settlement almost impossible to obtain.

187
Q

Inundate

A

verb

Syn: overflow,flood

Ant: drain, dry, parch, burn

Eg: The tremendous wave inundated the town.

188
Q

Inured

A

Adj

Syn: accustomed, hardened

Eg: She became inured to the Alaskan cold.

189
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Invective

A

NOUN

syn abuse

ant : Commendation, eulogy
panegyric, laudation praise,encouragement

Eg: He had expected criticism but nut
the invective that greeted his proposal.

190
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Irascible

A

ADJ

syn : irritable, easily angered

ant : courtious

Her irascible temper frightened me

191
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Irresolute

A

ADJ

syn : uncertain how to act; weak

ant : resolute, determined, bold,
decided, firm, persistent

Eg: She had no respect for him because
he seemed weak-willed and
irresolute,

192
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Itinerary

A

NOUN

syn : plan of a trip

Eg: Before leaving for his first visit to
France and England, he discussed
his itinerary with people who had
been there and with his travel agent.

193
Q

Laconic

A

ADJ

syn : brief and to the point

ant : authoritarian, gallant, garrulous, loquacious, prosy,lengthy

Eg: Many of the characters portrayed by
Clint Eastwood are laconic type*,
strong men or few words.

194
Q

Lassitude

A

NOUN

syn : languor; weariness

ant strength activity, freshness

Eg: The hot, tropical weather created a
feeling of lassitude and encouraged
drowsiness.

195
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Latent

A

ADJ

syn : potential but undeveloped;
dormant; hidden

ant ; visible, apparent, manifest,
conspicuous, explicit

Eg: Her latent talent was discovered by
accident.

196
Q

Laud

A

ADJ

syn : praise

ant : decry

Eg: The NFL lauded Boomer Esiason”s
efforts to raise money to combat
cystic fibrosis.

197
Q

Lethargic

A

ADJ

syn : drowsy, dull, sluggish

Eg:The stuffy room made her lethargic.
she felt as if she was about to nod
off.

198
Q

Levee

A

NOUN

syn: earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding

Eg: As the river rose and threated to
overflow the levee, emergency work-
ers rushes to reinforce the walls with
sandbags

199
Q

Levity

A

NOUN

syn : lack of seriousness, lightness

ant : gravity, earnestness, seriousness, sobriety

Eg: Stop giggling and wriggling around
in the pew; such levity is improper
in church.

200
Q

Log

A

NOUN

syn : record of a voyage or flight,
record of day to day activities

Eg: Flogged two seamen today for in-
subordination,” wrote Captain Bligh
in the Bounty’s log.

201
Q

Loquacious

A

ADJ

syn : talkative

Eg: She is very loquacious and can
speak on the telephone for hours,

202
Q

Lucid

A

Adj

Syn: Easily understood, clear, intelligible

Eg: Her explanation was lucid enough for a child to grasp.

203
Q

Luminous

A

ADJ

syn : shining; issuing light

The sun is a luminous body

204
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Magnanimity

A

NOUN

syn: generosity

Eg: Noted for his magnanimity,
philanthropist Eugene Lang donated
millions to charity.

205
Q

Malingerer

A

NOUN

syn : one who feigns illness to escape duty

Eg: The captain ordered the sergeant to
punish all malingerers and force
them to work.

206
Q

Malleable

A

Adj

Syn: capable of being shaped by pounding

Ant: relentless

Eg: Gold is malleable metal

207
Q

Maverick

A

NOUN

syn : rebel; nonconformist

Eg: To the masculine literary
establishment. George Sand with
her insistence on wearing trousers
and smoking cigars was clearly a
maverick who fought her proper
womanly role.
208
Q

Mendacious

A

ADJ

syn : lying; habitually dishonest

ant : trustworthy

Eg: He was pathological liar, and his
friends learned to discount his
mendacious stories.

209
Q

Metamorphosis

A

NOUN

syn: change of form, major transformation

Eg: The metamorphosis of caterpiller to
butterfly is typical of many such
changes in animal life

210
Q

Meticulous

A

`Adj

Syn: excessively careful, painstaking, scrupulous

Ant: remiss

Eg: He was meticulous in checking his accounts and never made any mistakes

211
Q

Misanthrope

A

NOUN

syn : one who hates mankind

ant : philanthropic

Eg: We thought the hermit was a
misanthrope because he shunned
our society.

212
Q

Mitigate

A

VERB

Syn : appease; moderate

Ant : oppose, aggravate, increase, extend

Eg: nothing he did could mitigate her
wrath; she was unforgiving.

213
Q

Mollify

A

VERB

syn : soothe, appease

ant : rebuff

Eg: We tried to mollify the hysterical
child by promising them many gifts.

214
Q

Morose

A

ADJ

syn ; ill humored, sullen;melancholy

ant : genial, kindly, gentle,indulgent, joyous, merry, gay

Eg: Forced to the early retirement. Bill
acted morose for months; then all
of Q sudden, he shook off his gloom
and was his usual cheerful self.

215
Q

Mundane

A

ADJ

syn : worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday

Eg: He was concerned only with with
mundane matters, especially the
daily stock market quotations.

216
Q

Negate

A 
VERB
Syn : cancel out; nullify; deny
Eg: I must accept his argument since
you have been unable to present
any negation of his evidence.
217
Q

Neophyte

A

NOUN

syn: recent convert; beginner

Eg: This mountain slope contains slide
that will challenge experts as well
neophytes.

218
Q

Obdurate

A

ADJ

syn : stubborn

ant : flexible amenable, docile,tractable

Eg: He was obdurate in his refusal to
listen to our complaints.

219
Q

Obsequious

A

ADJ

syn : slavishly attentive; servile;sycophantic

Eg: Helen valued people who behaved
as if they respected themselves;
nothing irritated her more than an
excessively obsequious waiter or a
fawning salesclerk.
220
Q

Obviate

A

VERB

Syn : make unnecessary;get rid of

Ant : necessitate, compel, order

Eg: I hope this contribution will obviate
any need for further collections of
funds.

221
Q

Occlude

A

VERB

syn ; shut, close

Eg: A blood clot occluded an artery to
the heart.

222
Q

Occult

A

ADJ

syn: mysterious, secret;supernatural
ant: plain, clear open, familiar,exposed

Eg: The occult rites of the organization
were revealed only to members.

223
Q

Officious

A

ADJ

syn: meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one’s services
ant: modest, retiring, in officiously, negligent

Eg: After her long flight. Jill just wanted to nap.
but the officious belooy was intent on
showing her all the special features of the
deluxe suite.

224
Q

Onerous

A

ADJ

syn : burdensome

Ant: light, easy, trivial, slight

Eg: He asked for an assistant because
his work load was too onerous.

225
Q

Opprobrium

A

NOUN

syn: public shame; infamy riisgrace; scorn; vilification

ant : honor, respect, glory, praise

Eg: He refused to defend himself against the
slander and opprobrium hurled against
him by the newspaper, he preferred to rely
on his iscord

226
Q

Oscillate

A

VERB

syn: vibrate pendulum-like, waver

Eg: it is interesting to note how public
opinion oscillates between the extremes of optimism and pessimism.

227
Q

Ostentatious

A

ADJ

syn : showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention

ant : unpretentious

Eg: Trump’s latest casino in Atlantic City
is the most ostentatious gambling
palace in the East: it easily glitters its competitors.

228
Q

Paragon

A

NOUN

syn : model of perfection

Eg: The class disliked him because the
teacher was always pointing him out
as a paragon of virtue.
229
Q

Partisan

A

ADJ

syn : one-sided; prejudiced: committed to a party

Eg: On certain issues of conscience,
she refused to take a partisan stand

230
Q

Pathological

A

ADJ

syn: pertaining to disease

Eg: As we study the pathological aspects of this disease, we must not
overlook the psychological elements

231
Q

Paucity

A

NOUN

syn : scarcity; dearth

ant : plentiful

Eg: They closed the restaurant because
the paucity of customers made it
uneconomical to operate.

232
Q

Pedantic

A

ADJ

syn : showing off learning; bookish

ant : modest

Eg: Leavening his decisions with humorous, down-to-earth anecdotes.
Judge Walker was not at all the pedantic legal scholar

233
Q

Penchant

A

NOUN

syn : strong inclination; liking

Eg: He had a strong penchant tor sculpture and owned many statues,

234
Q

Penury

A

NOUN

Syn : severe poverty; stinginess

ant : wealth, affluence

Eg: When his pension fund failed.
George feared he would end his
days in penury.

235
Q

Perennial

A

NOUN

syn : something that is continuing or recurrent, long-lasting

ant : occasional, periodical, uncertain, deficient

Eg: These plants are hardy perennials
and will bloom for many years.

236
Q

Perfidious

A

ADJ

syn: treacherous, disloyal

ant : staunch, faithful, honorable

Eg: When Caesar realized that Brutus
had betrayed him, he reproached his
perfidious friend.

237
Q

Perfunctory

A

ADJ

syn: superficial; not thorough
lacking interest, care. or enthusiasm

ant: heedful

Eg: The auditor s perfunctory inspection
of the books overlooked many er-
rors

238
Q

Permeable

A

ADJ

syn : penetrable; porous; allowing

Eg: liquids or gas to pass through
Glass is permeable to light.

239
Q

Pervasive

A

ADJ

syn : pervading ; spread
throughout (as an attitude)

ant : contained

Eg: Despite airing them for several
hours, she could not rid her clothes
of the pervasive odor of mothballs
that clung to them.

240
Q

Phlegmatic

A

ADJ

syn ; calm; not easily disturbed

ant passionate, active, energetic,interested, alert, restless

Eg: The nurse was a cheerful but phlegmatic person, unexcited in the face
of sudden emergencies.

241
Q

Piety

A

NOUN

syn: religious devotion; godliness

ant : impiety, ungodliness, profanity, hypocrisy

Eg: Living ner life in prayer and good
works. Mother Teresa exemplifies
the true spirit of piety

242
Q

Placate

A

VERB

syn : pacify, conciliate
ant : snub

The teacher tried to placate the angry mother.

243
Q

Plasticity

A

NOUN
syn : ability to be molded

Eg: When clay dries out, it loses its
plasticity and becomes less
malleable.

244
Q

Platitude

A

NOUN

syn : trite remark, commonplace
statement.

Eg: The platitudes in his speech were
applauded by the vast majority :n his
audience; only a few people perceived how trite his remarks were.

245
Q

Plethora

A

NOUN

syn : excess; overabundance

ant . paucity

Eg: She offered a plethora of excuses
for her shortcomings

246
Q

Plummet

A

VERB

syn: fall sharply

Eg: Stock prices plummeted as Wall
Street reacU-a to the rise In interest
rates

247
Q

Porous

A

ADJ

syn : full of pores; like a sieve

Dancers like to wear porous clothing because it allows the ready passage of water and air.

248
Q

Pragmatic

A

ADJ

syn : practical (as opposed to
idealistic); concerned with
the practical worth or impact
of something

Eg: This coming trip to France should
provide me with a pragmatic test of
the value of my conversational
French class.

249
Q

Preamble

A

NOUN

syn: introductory statement
ant: peroration, finale,conclusion, essay, body

Eg: In the preamble to the Constitution,
the purpose of the document is set
forth

250
Q

Precarious

A

ADJ

syn : uncertain risky

ant safe certain, assured,systematic, immutable,secure

Eg:I think this stock is a precarious
investment and advise against its
purchase.

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