Magoosh Study list

Question 1

Sedulous

Answer 1

Showing dilligence or dedication

Question 2

Invidious

Answer 2

likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others.

Question 3

Impute

Answer 3

Attiribute to or represent something (esp. unpleasant) being done by

Question 4

Tendentious

Answer 4

Bias toward a view (esp. controversial one)

Question 5

Sangfroid

Answer 5

Poise under pressure French - (sang = blood, froid = cold)

Question 6

Limpid

Answer 6

Clear, free of adulterants

Question 7

Appurtenant

Answer 7

Supporting or pertinent b/c of belonging

Question 8

Prolixity

Answer 8

Verbosity

Question 9

Sinecure

Answer 9

Easy/cushy job

Question 10

Exegesis

Answer 10

Critical analysis (esp of text or scripture) (ex = out of) ( hegeisthai = guide or lead)

Question 11

Hagiographic

Answer 11

Idealization of a subject (as in lives of the Saints)

Question 12

Vicissitude

Answer 12

Change in forture or circumstances, usually unwelcome

Question 13

Palimpsest

Answer 13

Something reused but bearing visiable traces of earlier forms

Question 14

Restive

Answer 14

Restless

Question 15

recondite

Answer 15

little known, arcane,

Question 16

Superfluity

Answer 16

An excess of something (alt. the state of being superflous)

Question 17

Paucity

Answer 17

Scarcity or lack, insuficient quantities of (latin paucus = few)

Question 18

Pellucid

Answer 18

Transparently clear, easily understood

Question 19

Tyro

Answer 19

Beginner or Novice

Question 20

Recapitulate

Answer 20

Summarize or restate main points of

Question 21

Improvident

Answer 21

Lacking foresight, thoughtless

Question 22

Puerile

Answer 22

Childish, silly, or trivial

Question 23

Lachrymose

Answer 23

tearful or weepy

Question 24

Inchoate

Answer 24

Not fully formed, rudimentary

Question 25

Ebulient

Answer 25

Cheerful and full of energy, enthusiastic

Question 26

Celerity

Answer 26

Quickness or swiftness (latin celer = swift)

Question 27

apothegm

Answer 27

concise saying or maxim, aphorism

Question 28

Puissant

Answer 28

having great power or influence

Question 29

Ineluctible

Answer 29

unavoidable

Question 30

Pedantic

Answer 30

showing off learning

Question 31

Inveterate

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Habitual

Question 32

Solecism

Answer 32

social blunder or gaffe

Question 33

quotidian

Answer 33

occuring daily, mundane

Question 34

palagic

Answer 34

of or relating to open seas / ocean

Question 35

pejorative

Answer 35

expressing disapproval

Question 36

arrant

Answer 36

utter

Question 37

parsimonous

Answer 37

miserly

Question 38

mendacity

Answer 38

deciet

Question 39

protean

Answer 39

tending or able to change easily

Question 40

logorrhea

Answer 40

excessive talkitivness

Question 41

desultory

Answer 41

lacking a plan (jumping for horse to horse)