KAPLAN Top Words Flashcards

Question

AUDACIOUS

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Fearless | "Her audacious nature allowed to try duck"

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Stern in appearance | "The decor seem austere"

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Predictable, cliché (Banality) "He used banal phrases"

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High-sounding with little meaning | "Bombastic rhetoric"

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Harsh, jarring noise | "Created an unbearable cacophony as they tuned their instruments"

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Honest in speech

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Changing mind frequently

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Punish, criticze harshly | "Singapore castigate perpetrators for minor crimes"

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Brings about change in something else

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Biting in wit | "She gained her reputation for caustic wit from her clever insults"

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Disorder, confusion

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Someone who is favoured in their group | "Male chauvinists believe they are superior to women"

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Deception (by means of craft) | "Car sales people often use chicanery to sell"

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Convincing, well reasoned | "The cogent argument"

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Overlook, pardon, disregard

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Provide support evidence

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Gullible, too trusting

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Increase in volume/force

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Appropriate behaviour

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Respect, courtesy | "He treated the Supreme Court with the utmost deference"

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To mock | "The awkward child was derided by the other children"

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To dry out completely

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Jumping from one thing to another, disconnected | "She had a desultory academic record; she changed majors 12 times"

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Abusive language | "The driver bellowed a diatribe at the driver that cut him off"

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Lacking self-confidence | "Diffident manner"

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Intended to delay | "He used dilatory measures to delay the passage of the bill"

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Someone with amateurish and superficial interest in topic | "He was such a dilettante"

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Mournful speech (Elegy)

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To free from error, set right (Exculpate, Exonerate)

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Perceive, to recognize

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Fundamentally different | "The twins as disparate personalities"

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Present false appearance, disguise true intentions | "The villain could dissemble to the police no longer; he admitted to the deed"

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Disagreeable combination | "Cognitive dissonance"

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Firmly held opinion | "His central dogma was that dogs were smarter than cats"

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Dictatorial in one's opinion

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To deceive, person who is easily deceived, scam field | "He was able to dupe her into dressing up"

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Made of a variety of sources | "The architecture is an eclectic mix"

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Effectiveness

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Sorrowful poem

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Persuasive and moving

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``` To copy (imitate) "The graduate student sought to emulate his professor" ```

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Reduce in strength | "They hoped that a series of attacks would enervate the enemy"

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To bring about

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Short lasting

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To speak vaguely, double meaning

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Unpredictable

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Scholarly | "The annual meeting of philosophy professors was of the most erudite individuals"

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Known, understood by few (aka Arcane) | "Only a handful of experts know about the esoteric world of particle physics"

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Speech in praise of someone

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Use of inoffensive word to replace a distasteful one | "He preferred to use the euphemism sleeping instead of dead"

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To make worse

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To clear from blame, prove innocent (Disabuse, exonerate)

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Urgent | "It was exigent to stop the bleeding"

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To clear of blame (Disabuse, exculpate)

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Clearly stated

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Acting excessively enthusiastic

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Excessively decorated

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To arouse or incite | "The protesters tried to foment feeling against the war through their speech"

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Talking alot | "The garrulous parakeet"

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Deceit | "Since he was not fast enough, the cayote resorted to guile in an effort to trap the enemy"

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Easily decieved

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Of similar kind

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Deviates from established beliefs

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Not capable of being disturbed (Perturb) | "The counselor had so much experience that she was not imperturbable with tantrumes"

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Impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected | "A good raincoat is impervious to moisture"

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Act without thinking | "It is not good for a broker to be impetuous"

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Unable to make calm (Placable = peaceful)

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Not fully formed

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Showing innocence, simplicity

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Hostile | "The children grew up in the same neighbourhood but were inimical to eachother at school"

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Lacking interests | "The painting was insipid"

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Uncompromising, reuse to be reconciled | "The professors was intransigent"

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To overwhelm, cover with water | "The tidal wave inundated Atlantis"

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Easily made angry | "Mom's irascible nature made all her children fear and clean the house"

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Using few words

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Express sorrow, grieve

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To give praise, glorify

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Extravagent

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Acting in a slow manner

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Having a clear meaning

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Bright, glowing

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To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill | "A common way to avoid the draft was by malingering"

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Capable of being shaped

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Figurative speech comparing 2 things

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Extremely careful about details

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Hater of people

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Soften, lessen

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To calm or make less severe

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Lack of variation

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Lacking sophistication, experience

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Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion | "The president was completely obdurate on the issue"

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Overly submissive and eager to please | "The obsequious new associate made sure to compliment her supervisor's tie"

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To prevent; make unnecessary | "The river was shallow enough to wade across at many points, which obviated the need for a bridge"

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To stop, prevent passage of | "A solar eclipse occurs when the sun is occluded by the moon"

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Troublesome, oppressive, burden | "The project proved onerous to the team"

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Impossible to see through

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Public disgrace | "After the scandal, he reassigned in opprobrium"

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Excessive showiness | "The ostentation of the Sun King's court is evident in the lavish decoration"

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Contradiction or dilemma

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Model of perfection | "Beyonce is the paragon of a beautiful mother"

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Someone who shows off learning

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Willing to betray one's trust | "The actress's perfidious friend revealed all her secrets"

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Done in a routine way, indifferent | "The McDonalds employee gave me a perfunctory smile"

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Charity, desire to promote goodness

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To soothe, pacify | "The burglar tried to placate the snarling dog"

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Able to be moulded | "The new material was very plastic"

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Practical as opposed to idealistic (theory)

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To bring about, lacking deliberation "Upon learning about the 2 month engagement of the couple, friends expected such a precipitate marriage to end in divorce"

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To lie | "The employee prevaricated and claimed that he did not sleep in"

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Uncorrupted

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Lavish, wasteful

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To increase in number quickly | "Although she only kept 2 guinea pigs initially, they proliferated to dozens"

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Correct behaviour, obedience of customs | "The aristocracy maintained a high level of propriety"

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Wisdom, caution, restraint

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Sharp, irritating the senses

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Motionless | "Many animals are quiescent over the winter months"

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The make thinner | "Since the atmosphere rarefies as altitudes increase"

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To reject the validity of | "The old woman's claim that she was Russian royalty was repudiated with DNA testing"

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Silent, reserved | "She was physically small and reticent in speech"

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Effective writing, speaking

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To satisfy fully, overindulge | "His desire for power was so great that nothing less than complete control could satiate it"

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Causing sleep or lethargy | "The movie 50 shades of Grey proved to be soporific"

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Deceptively attractive | "His specious excuses sounded legitimate but was proved otherwise"

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Mark of shame

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Unemotional, lacking sensitivity | "The prisoner appeared to be stolid after the Judge's sentence"

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Grand, inspirational

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Done without using words | "Many years ago there was a tacit agreement that news reporters would not publicize the private lives of politicians"

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Silent, not talkative

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Extreme mental and physical sluggishness | "After surgery, the patient experienced torpor until the anesthesia wore off"

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To sway physically, be indecisive | " The customer held up the line as he vacillated between chocolate and vanilla"

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To respect | "In traditional Confucian society, the young venerate the elders"

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Filled with truth and accuracy

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Wordy | "The professor's answers were so verbose that the students forgot what the question was"

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Easily changeable

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Fluctuate between choices

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Unpredictable, impulsive (Fanciful, capricious)

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Passion | "She brought her typical zeal to the project"