Magoosh verbal questions Flashcards

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Debasement

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Losing value, lowering value

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Heyday

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Successful and reigning days

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3
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Precipitous

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Sudden

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4
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Austerity

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Strict and stern

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5
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Boorishness

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Inelegance or vulgar rudeness

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6
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Demeanor

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Way the person behave to other people or facial appearance

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7
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Pompous

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Self inflated ego or thinks self as important

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8
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Prone

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Tendency

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9
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Forsake

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Leave or abandon

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10
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Bloviate

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To speak pompous

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11
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rhetorical

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Exaggerated or rather than truth

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12
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Foil

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Prevent success and make frustration

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13
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Embell

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To beauty or adorn or enhance mostly with ornaments

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14
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Faltering

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Weak, shaky, unsteady

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15
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Deleterious

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Harmful and injurious

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16
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Subvert

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Overthrow, cause downfall

17
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verisimilitude

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Appearance of truth

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decrepit

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Weakened by old age

19
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contrived

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Planned or forced

20
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Timid

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Lack of self assurance, shy, bravery

21
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implacable

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Not be pleased, satisfied, pacifier

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Stolid

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not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive

23
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Debonair

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courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm

24
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Intransigent

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refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.

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entailed
With something, following something, as result of something
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Ebb
flowing backward or away; decline or decay
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Ameliorate
to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory;
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incumbent
Holding role, office, position
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Benign
having no harmful influence or effect
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Feverishly
a way that is overexcited, restless, or uncontrolled, as if from fever
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Contort
become twisted, distorted, or strained
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Damning
To incrimination
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Resorted
have recourse for use, help, or accomplishing something, often as a final available option or resource
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Subterfuge
an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something
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Incriminatiom
To make someone seem guilty against crime