Magoosh Vocab (Advanced Words) Flashcards
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artless
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(adj) without cunning or deceit
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sedulous
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(adj) done diligently and carefully
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expansive
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(adj) communicative, and prone to be talking in a sociable manner
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lascivious
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(adj) lecherous; sexually perverted
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feckless
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(adj) lazy and irresponsible
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imbibe
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(v) to drink or absorb as if drinking
Ex: I imbibed Tamora Pierce’s work to such an extent I could recite all her books by heart
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apogee
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(n) the highest point
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apostate
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(n) a person who has abandoned a religious faith or cause
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hector
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(v) to bully or intimidate
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ponderous
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(adj) weighted-down; moving slowly
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exegesis
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(n) a critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text
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arrant
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(adj) complete and wholly
Ex: an arrant fool
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truculent
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(adj) having a fierce, savage nature
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saturnine
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(adj) morose and gloomy
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indigent
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(adj) poor; having very little
(n) a poor or needy person
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catholic
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(adj) of broad scope; universal
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anathema
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(n) a detested person; the source of somebody’s hate
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choleric
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(adj) prone to outbursts of temper; easily angered
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perfunctory
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(adj) done routinely and with little interest or care
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untoward
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(adj) unfavorable; inconvenient
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kowtow
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(v) to bow or act in a subservient manner
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precipitate
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(adj) hasty or rash
(v) to cause to happen
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pariah
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(n) an outcast
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supercilious
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(adj) haughty and disdainful; looking down on others
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overweening
(adj) arrogant; presumptuous
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chary
(adj) cautious, suspiciously reluctant to do something
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zeitgeist
(n) spirit of the times
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byzantine
(adj) intricate and complex
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fractious
(adj) irritable and is likely to cause disruption
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turpitude
(n) depravity; a depraved act
Ex: remembered for his turpitude
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imbroglio
(n) a confusing and potentially embarrassing situation
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jejune
(adj) dull; lacking flavor
| (adj) immature; childlike
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factitious
(adj) artificial; not natural
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sententious
(adj) to be moralizing, usually in a pompous sense
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picayune
(adj) trifling or petty (a person)
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venial
(adj) easily excused or forgiven; pardonable
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bilious
(adj) irritable; always angry
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expurgate
(v) to remove objectionable material
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cupidity
(n) greed for money
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peremptory
(adj) bossy and domineering
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invective
(n) abusive or denunciatory language
Ex: The Internet unleashes the invective in us...
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parvenu
(n) a person who has suddenly become wealthy, but not socially accepted as part of a higher class
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limpid
(adj) having clarity in terms of expression
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phantasmagorical
(adj) illusive; unreal
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palimpsest
(n) something that has been changed numerous times but on which traces of former iterations can still be seen.
Ex: The campus was a palimpsest of the schools's checkered past: a new commons next to a dilapidated dormitory and a remodeled church next to an ancient science building.
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Pyrrhic
(adj) describing a victory that comes at such a great cost that the victory is not worthwhile.
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jaundiced
(adj) to be biased against due to envy or prejudice
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apotheosis
(n) exaltation to divine status; the highest point of development
Ex: the apotheosis of my career is yet to come
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mulct
(v) to defraud or swindle
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propitiate
(v) to placate or appease
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impecunious
(adj) lacking money; poor
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protean
(adj) readily taking on different roles; versatile
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Pollyannaish
(adj) extremely optimistic
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hedge
(v) to limit or qualify a statement; to avoid making a direct statement
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mettlesome
(adj) filled with courage or valor
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schadenfreude
(n) the joy from watching the suffering of others
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fell
(adj) terribly evil
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execrate
(v) to curse or hiss at
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arch
(adj) to be deliberately teasing
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quisling
(n) a traitor
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benighted
(adj) fallen into a state of ignorance
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histrionic
(adj) to be overly theatrical
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tendentious
(adj) likely to lean towards a controversial view
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sangfroid
(n) calmness or poise in difficult situations
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blinkered
(adj) to have a limited outlook or understanding
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remonstrate
(v) to make objections while pleading
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sartorial
(adj) related to fashion or clothes
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arriviste
(n) a social climber
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excoriate
(v) to criticize very harshly
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derelict
(adj) not doing one's duties
| n) abandoned (building
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pecuniary
(adj) relating to or involving money
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bowdlerize
(v) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
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gaffe
(n) a socially awkward or tactless act
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moribund
(adj) being on the point of death; declining rapidly losing all momentum in progress
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solecism
(n) a mistake in grammar/speech or a socially awkward or tactless act
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probity
(n) integrity, strong moral principals
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anodyne
(n) something that relieves pain
| (adj) inoffensive
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maunder
(v) to wander aimlessly
| (v) to speak rapidly or incessantly
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enjoin
(v) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
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punctilious
(adj) marked by precise accordance to details
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anemic
(adj) lacking energy or vigor
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impute
(v) to attribute (responsibility or fault) to something
Ex: I imputed my subpar performance on the test to a combination of stress and poor sleep.
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hagiographic
(adj) excessively flattering toward someone's life or work
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charlatan
(n) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks and jokes
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effrontery
(n) audacious/arrogrant behavior that you have no right to
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prolixity
(n) boring verbosity
Ex: My parent's prolixity can be tiring.
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lampoon
(v) criticize with satire
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importune
(v) to beg persistently and urgently
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approbatory
(adj) to express approval
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perspicacious
(adj) acutely insightful and wise
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mordant
(adj) biting and caustic in thought, manner, and style
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redoubtable
(adj) inspiring fear or awe
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temerity
(n) fearless daring
Ex: I have the temerity to apply to top schools.
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artlessness
(n) the quality of innocence
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immure
(v) to enclose, usually in walls
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untenable
(adj) incapable of being defended or justified
Ex: the old theory proven wrong, became untenable to most people
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apposite
(adj) remarkably appropriate
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patent
(adj) glaringly obvious
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intimation
(n) an indirect suggestion
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corollary
(n) a practical consequence that follows naturally
Ex: A corollary of Super Storm Sandy was new sea walls for future storms.
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obstreperous
(adj) noisily and stubbornly defiant; difficult to control
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surreptitious
(adj) stealthy, taking pains not to be caught or detected
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subterfuge
(n) a deception
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imperious
(adj) arrogant superiority to and disdain toward views as unworthy
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dispensation
(n) an exemption from a rule or obligation
Ex: White people are often given dispensation from many of society's rules and policies.
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presentiment
(n) a feeling of evil to come
Ex: I had a presentiment about taking the GRE
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tempestuous
(adj) as if driven by turbulent or conflicting emotions; fluctuating and wild
Ex: tempestuous relationship
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invidious
(adj) likely to cause resentment
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lacerate
(v) to deeply hurt the feelings of; distress
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recrimmination
mutual accusations
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unpropitious
(adj) with little change of success (of a circumstance)
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machinate
(v) to engage in plotting/a conspiracy, swear together
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inimitable
(adj) defying imitation; matchless
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inviolate
(adj) must be kept sacred
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broadside
(n) a strong verbal attack
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inanity
(n) the total lack of meaning or ideas
Ex: No point in making sense of inanity.
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antic
(adj) ludicrously odd
Ex: the antic act was too extreme for the kids
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unprpossessing
(adj) creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression
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deign
(v) to do something that one considers below one's dignity
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rapprochement
(n) the reestablishment of cordial relations
Ex: Peter and I had a rapprochement.
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browbeat
(v) to be bossy
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baleful
(adj) threatening/foreshadowing evil
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ersatz
(adj) not real or genuine; phony
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apothegm
(n) a short, pithy instructive saying
Ex: Churchill is famous for his apothegms
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empiricism
(n) any method that derives knowledge from experience
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ineffable
(adj) too sacred to be uttered; defying expression or description
Ex: The numerous reasons I love Nozowa are ineffable.
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chagrin
(n) strong feelings of embarrassment
| (v) to feel shame; to hurt the pride of
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effervescent
(adj) marked by high spirits or excitement
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chimera
(n) something desired or wished for but it only an illusion and impossible to achieve
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untrammeled
(adj) not confined or limited
Ex: Living untrammeled is a core American value.
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appurtenant
(adj) supplying added support
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epigram
(n) a witty saying
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objurgate
(v) express strong disapproval of
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solicitude
(n) the feeling of excessive concern
Ex: I do not appreciate my mother's solicitude.
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unstinting
(adj) very generous
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atavism
(n) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic; a throwback
Ex: The current bob trend is an atavism to the 1920s.
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solicitous
(adj) showing hovering attetiveness
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enormity
(n) an act of extreme wickedness
Ex: The enormity of the Pol Pot's regime...
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fecund
(adj) intellectually productive
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callow
(adj) young and unexperienced
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conflate
(v) to mix together different elements and concepts
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elegiac
(adj) expressing sorrow
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conflagration
(n) a very intense and uncontrolled fire
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pellucid
(adj) easily understood; transparently clear
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pontificate
(v) to talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
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internecine
(adj) within a group or organization (of conflict)
Ex: the regime was finally destroyed by a internecine conflict between high ranking officers
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impugn
(v) to attack as false or wrong
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coterminous
(adj) being of equal extent or scope or duration
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discursive
(adj) tending to depart from the main point (of a speech or writing)
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dolorous
(adj) showing sorrow
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bridle
(v) to retrain the power or action or limit excess
| (v) to react with anger or take offense
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desiccated
(adj) uninteresting, lacking vitality
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afford
(v) to provide with an opportunity
Ex: My Fulbright affords a hands-on experience in Morocco.
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obtuse
(adj) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; lacking insight or discernment
Ex: the most obtuse member
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turgid
(adj) pompous and tedious (of language)
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ethereal
(adj) characterized by lightness and insubstantially
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doughty
(adj) brave; bold; courageous
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facile
(adj) arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth
Ex: The professor gave facile explanations to complex social problems
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malingerer
(n) someone shirking their duty by pretending to be sick or incapacitated
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unimpeachable
(adj) free of guilt; not subject to blame; beyond doubt or reproach
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bromide
(n) a trite or obvious remark
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desideratum
(n) something desired as a necessity
Ex: The desideratum of the environmental group...
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aplomb
(n) great coolness and composure under strain
Ex: The IMAT team acted with aplomb during natural disasters.
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stultify
(v) to cause one, through routine, to lose energy and enthusiasm
Ex: Over the course of weeks, I felt stultified by the Quantitative GRE books.
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infelicitous
(adj) inappropriate
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adjudicate
(v) to serve as a judge in a competition; to arrive at a judgement or conclusion
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bereft
(adj) unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
| (adj) sorrowful through loss or deprivation
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exiguity
(n) the quality of being meager
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palaver
(v) to speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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splenetic
(adj) very irritable
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misattribute
(v) to falsely ascribe (especially of authorship)
Ex: I misattributed "Romeo & Juliette" to JR Tolken
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extrapolate
(v) to draw from specific cases for more general cases
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promulgate
(v) to state or announce
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verisimilitude
(n) the appearance of truth
Ex: good novels are good because of their verisimilitude of reality
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ebullient
(adj) joyously unrestrained
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modicum
(n) a small or moderate or token amount
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dissipate
(v) to squander money
| (v) to disperse or scatter
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abrogate
(v) revoke or relinquish formally; do away with
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evanescent
(adj) tending to vanish like vapor
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cataclysm
(n) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
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dissemble
(v) to conceal one's true motives (prevaricate) usually through deceit
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dissolution
(n) a living full of debauchery and indulgence in sensual pleasure
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trenchant
(adj) force and vigor; especially in thought, expression, or intellect
Ex: trenchant analysis
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pillory
(v) ridicule or expose to public scorn
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simulacrum
(n) a representation of a person (sculpture)
| (n) a bad imitation
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obtain
(v) to be valid, applicable, true
Ex: Some cultural practices do not obtain universally.
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capitulate
(v) to surrender (usually under agreed conditions)
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canard
(n) a deliberately misleading fabrication
Ex: Trump's canards
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oblique
(adj) not straightforward; indirect
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ineluctable
(adj) impossible to avoid or evade
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concomitant
(adj) describing an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
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eponym
(n) the name derived from a person (real or imaginary); the person for whom something is named
