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Question 1

aberration

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a state or condition markedly different from the norm

Question 2

abet

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assist or encourage

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abhor

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feel hatred toward

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beguile

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attract

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benign

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kind in disposition

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berate

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censure severly

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bereft

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lacking something

Question 8

capacious

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large in the amount that can be contained

Question 9

capitulate

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surrender under agreed conditions

Question 10

capricious

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determined by chance rather than necessity

Question 11

deferential

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showing courteous regard for peoples feelings

Question 12

defile

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make dirty

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deft

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skillful in physical movements

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efficacious

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giving the power to produce an intended result

Question 15

effrontery

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audacious behavior that you have no right to

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effulgent

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radiating

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egregious

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outrageously bad

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fallacious

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based on incorrect meaning

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fatuous

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devoid of intelligence

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fortuitous

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lucky

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abnegation

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the denial of a belief

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abrogate

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revoke formally

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abscond

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run away

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accede

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yield to another’s wish

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accord

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concurrence of opinion

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benevolent

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motivated by sympathy and understanding

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boisterous

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marked by exuberance

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bombastic

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ostentatiously lofty in style

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bourgeois

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being the property owning class

Question 30

brazen

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unrestrained by convention

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caustic

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capable of destroying by chemical action

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cavort

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play boisterously

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censure

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disapproval

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chastise

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scold

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defunct

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inactive

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deleterious

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harmful to living things

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delineate

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represented accurately

Question 38

elegy

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a mournful poem

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elucidate

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make clear and comprehensible

Question 40

fervent

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characterized by intense emotion

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abase

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cause to feel shame

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abate

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become less in amount or intensity

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balk

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refuse to proceed

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banal

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repeated too often

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bane

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something causing misery

Question 46

cadence

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the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Question 47

cajole

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influence or gentle urging

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candor

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the quality of being honest

Question 49

dearth

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an insufficient quanity

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debauch

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a wild gathering

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decorous

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characterized by good taste

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decry

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express strong disapproval of

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ebullient

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joyously unrestrained

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edict

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a formal proclamation

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efface

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erase

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facade

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the front of a building

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facile

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arrived at without due care

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fastidious

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attention to detail

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garish

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tastelessly slow

Question 60

garrulous

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full of trivial conversation