KaplanPt1 Flashcards
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>declaim</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to speak dramatically</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Aberrant</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>deviating from what is normal or expected</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Abstemious</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>moderate in appetite</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Acidulous</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>sour in taste</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Affected</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>phony, artificial</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Aggrandize</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to increase in power</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Amortize</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to diminish by installed payments</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Anodyne</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>something that calms or soothes</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Apocryphal</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>of questionable authenticity</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Approbation</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>approval and praise</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Arrogate</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to claim without justification</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Attenuate</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to reduce in force, weaken</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Belfry</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>a bell tower</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Bevy</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>a group</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Blight</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to afflict, destroy</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Blithe</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>cheerful, without appropriate thought</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Burgeon</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to grow and flourish</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Burnish</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to polish</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Candid</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>impartial and honest in speech</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Chicanery</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>deception by means of craft or guile</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Contrite</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Contumacious</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>rebellious</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Cosset</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>to pamper, treat with care</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Coterie</p>
<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>in intimate group of people with a similar care</p>
Cupidity
greed, strong desire
Deleterious
unexpectedly or subtly harmful
Demagogue
a leader or rabble rouser
Demur
to express doubts or objections
Desultory
jumping from one thing to another
Diaphanous
allowing light to show through
Dilettante
someone with an amateurish interest
Dirge
funeral hymn or mournful speech
Dissemble
to present a false appearance
Distend
to swell, inflate
Doctrinaire
rigidly devoted to theories without regards for practicality
Edify
to instruct morally and spiritually
Effrontery
impudent boldness, audacity
Elegy
sorrowful poem or speech
Endemic
belonging to a particular area, inherent
Enervate
to reduce in strength
Epicure
a person with refined taste for food and wine
Ersatz
fake
Exigent
urgent
Exponent
one who champions or advocates
Expurgate
to censor
Fallow
dormant
Fatuous
supid, foolishly self satisfied
Fecund
fertile, fruitful
Flag
to decline in vigor, strength or interest
Florid
excessively decorated or embellished
Fractious
unruly, rebellious
Furtive
secret, stealthy
Gambol
to dance or skip around playfully
Garrulous
tending to talk a lot
Glib
fluent in an insincere manner
Gradation
a degree or stage in a process, a shade of color
Gregarious
outgoing, sociable
Hapless
unfortunate, having bad luck
Impecunious
poor
Impetuous
quick to act without thinking
Imprecation
a curse
Impugn
to call into question, attack verbally
Incohate
not fully formed, disorganized
Inculcate
to teach, impress in the mind
Indolent
lazy or idle
Inexorable
inflexible, unyielding
Ingenuous
showing innocence or childlike simplicity
Ingrate
an ungrateful person
Ingratiate
to gain favor with anoter through deliberate effort
Inimical
hostile
Iniquity
a sin
Innocuous
harmless
Inquest
an investigation
