MAGOOSH PARAMOUNT

Question 1

Esoteric

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Known only to those with specialised knowledge

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Dilatory

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Slow, delaying

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Polemic

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A written or verbal attack against someone

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Tenuous

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Slight, insubstantial, thin

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Alacrity

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Eager willingness to do something

Adj. alacritous

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Prosaic

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Dull, lacking imagination

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Veracity

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Truthful

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Paucity

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Lack of something

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Maintain

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To assert

Ex: a scientist can maintain that a recent finding support her theory

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Contrite

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Feel remorse

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Laconic

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Saying few words

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Pugnacious

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Aggressively argue about something, verbally combative

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Disparate

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Fundamentally different

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Egregious

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Standing out in a and way

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Innocuous

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Harmless, inoffensive

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Candid

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Straightforward, honest look at something

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Erratic

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Strange, unconventional

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Bleak

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Bleak outlook = very depressing take on life

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Profuse

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Literally pools out in abundance

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Extant

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Opposite of extinct, abundant?

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Contentious

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To like to argue

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Auspicious

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Favourable

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Enervate

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To sap the energy from

Ex: John preferred to avoid equatorial countries; the intense sun would always leave him enervated after he’d spent the day sightseeing

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Equivocate

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To speak vaguely, with the intention to mislead, deceive

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Unequivocal

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To leave no room for doubt

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Sedulous

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Studying sedulously = studying diligently and carefully

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Stem

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Limit the flow or growth of something

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Blinkered

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Have a limited outlook or understanding

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Check

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To stop growth

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Checkered

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Checkered past = marked by disreputable happenings

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Raft

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Large number of something

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Involved

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Complicated, difficult to comprehend

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Expansive

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Communicative

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Moment

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Significant, important

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Imbibe

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To drink copiously, | Intake of knowledge or information

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Inundate

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Deluge, | To be overwhelmed by to many people, things

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Scintillating

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Something gives off sparks, | Someone who is brilliant and lively

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Benighted

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(people) state of ignorance, | (sky) becoming night

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Galvanize

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To strengthen steel by giving it its final coat, | To motivate somebody

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Flush

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To blush, To send down the toilet, To be in abundance, To drive out of hiding

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Fell

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To cut down a tree, Evil Past tense of to fall

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Arch

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To be deliberately teasing, | Chief or principal

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Beg

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To beg a question = to evade a question, to invite an obvious question, to ask a question that in itself makes unwarranted assumptions

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Tender

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To tender your resignation= you hand in a piece of paper saying that you are resigning

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Intimate

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To suggest something subtly

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Wanting

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Lacking

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Becoming

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Adjective : it matches nicely

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Start

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To suddenly move or to dart in one direction

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Fleece

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To deceive

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Telling

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Significant, standing out

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Wax

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To increase Opposite: to wane

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Qualify

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To limit (opinion, statement)

Question 53

Miserly vs frugal

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Monte was no miser, pinching each penny, but was simply frugal, wisely spending the little that he had earned. Frugal - spending money wisely Miserly - to pinch every penny