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Abrasive

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showing little concern for others.

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Abreast

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up to date with the latest news, ideas and information.

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Abstruse

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difficult to understand.

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Accentuate

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to make something more prominent and noticeable.

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Acerbic

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very critical, ironic or sarcastic in temper.

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Acumen

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very shrewd in judgement and superior insights.

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Adroit

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clever or skillful

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Adultation

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extreme admiration or praise.

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aloof

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uninvolved or uninterested.

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aghast

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filled with horror or shock.

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feelings for something or someone

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Ameliorate

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Make better

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Anachronism

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Being from another period or era than depicted

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Antedate

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Come before in time

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Apathy

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Showing lack of enthusiasm

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Aplomb

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self-assurance

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apologist

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a person who offers an argument in defense of somthing.

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Arcane

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understood by a few.

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Assiduous

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showing great care.

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Astound

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shock or greatly surprise.

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Augment

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make something great by adding something in it.

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Austerity

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extreme plainness or simplicity in style.

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Avert

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prevent or ward off.

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Banal

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so obviously boring and lacking in originality.

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Beguile

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  1. trick someone into doing something.
  2. charm or enchant in a deceptive way.
  3. help pass time pleasantly.
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Belie

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fail to give the true notion of something.

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Bemuse

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puzzled or confused

=> The teacher was bemused by the ward’s answer.

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Benign

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Harmless

=> Don’t worry, the dog is benign.

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Blight

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have severe or detrimental effect.
=> The coach blames the negative attitudes that several members of the team have been displaying on the field for the blight on their winning record.

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Brandish

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wave or flourish as a threat or in excitement.

=> I saw that he was brandishing his knife at me.

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Brevity

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concise and exact use of words in a speech.

=> J.K Rowling delivered the stories of Hogwarts with absolute brevity.

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Bucolic

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related to pleasantries of the country side.

=> Today the bucolic beauty of the region hides a deeply entrenched and long-standing poverty.

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Buoyancy

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an optimistic and cheerful disposition.

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Callous

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showing no care/sympathy for others.

=> Tommy Shelby was never a callous person.

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Caprice

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sudden and unaccountable change in mood or behavior.

=> her refusal to go to the party is merely a caprice.

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Circumscribe

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restrict something within limits.

=> The law circumscribed the defendant’s movements after the first hearing.

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Clangor

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loud banging sound.

=> Down the street from the heart of the city came a sudden clangor

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Clerical

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a routine administrative job in an office.

=> The receptionist job is clerical.

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Coalesce

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combine to form a whole.

=> the group coalesced when the leader delivered a powerful speech.

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Cogent

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clear, logical and convincing.
=> When the homebuilder did not provide me with a cogent answer to my question, I knew he was not the right person to build my family home.

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commensurate

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corresponding in size or degree, proportion.

=> we offer salary commensurate to the experience of the candidate.

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complacent

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showing uncritical satisfaction with oneself.

=> The worst thing to do in life is to be complacent with oneself.

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Condone

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continue(something that is illegal or offensive).

=> the college cannot condone any actions involving drugs or alcohol.

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Contend

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  1. struggle to surmount (a difficulty or danger).
  2. assert something as a position in an argument.
  3. compete.
    => Customers should not have to contend with the problems caused by these delays.
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Conundrum

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Difficult problem or question.
=> The use of protective clothing for farmers in Brazil presents a conundrum . For the fashionable female, it can prove quite a conundrum finding that perfect outfit.

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Convoluted

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extremely complex or difficult to follow.

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corroborate

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confirm or give support to.

=> the witness corroborated the boy’s statement about the crime.

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Cow

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cause to submit to one’s wishes by intimidation.

=> the intellectuals had been cowed into silence.

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Crestfallen

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sad and disappointed.

=> The man was crestfallen after discovering his spouse wanted to leave him.

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Curtail

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to make less by cutting some part off.

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Daunt

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make feel intimidated or apprehensive.

=> this assignment is daunting!

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deferential

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respectfully submissive to others opinions, desires or judgments.
=> the young are deferential to their elders.

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decree

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order that has the force of a law.

=> the committee tried to push his amendment by some decree.

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Deleterious

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something that is harmful, injurious as to health.

=> regularly smoking cigarettes is deleterious to our lungs.

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Deft

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dexterous.

=> Due to her young age, her movements were deft and agile.

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clemency

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mercy.

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Delineate

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to describe or portray in vivid detail.

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Demur

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raise doubts or objections

=> Sasuke Uchiha never demurred from a challenge and faced them head on without fear.

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Denigrate

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criticize unfairly.

=> Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher.

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Detrimental

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causing harm, disadvantage or deterioration.

=> The new law will have detrimental influences on future tobacco use.

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Didactic

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in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way.
=> While the professor’s lectures were designed to be didactic, they only served to confuse the students.

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Diffident

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modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence.

=> he was diffident about his own successes.

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Disapprobation

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strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds.

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Discern

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to perceive, make out or detect.

=> As Kakashi says, a ninja should be able to discern between reality and illusions.

65
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Disentangle

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To be free of entanglement

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Disgruntle

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to make irritably discontent.

=> She needed to get out more if she found their disgruntled exchange entertaining.

67
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Disparate

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essentially distinct or different.

=> The shinobis are a disparate group of people amongst the village hidden in the leaves.

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Dispassionate

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without strong feeling or bias.

=> Naruto never trained dispassionately for becoming a hokage.

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disquiet

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lack of mental calm, peace; anxiety.

=> There is increasing public disquiet about the number of violent crimes in the city.

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Dissemble

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  1. conceal the true nature or state of.
  2. to disguise or hide behind a false semblance.
    => Sakura never dissembled her feelings for Sasuke and was open about it from the moment she met him.
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Disseminate

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spread over a large area.

=> The Naruto fandom has disseminated over the whole world in the last few years.

72
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Dissolution

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  1. dissipation
  2. debauched living
    => A dissolution was the only escape.
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Doctrinaire

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dogmatically adhering to a theory or a school of thought.

=> The BJP follows an extremely Hindu centric doctrinaire.

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Dogmatic

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asserting beliefs and opinions as they are proven facts.

=> In India, all the political parties dogmatically try to impose statements about past traditions and beliefs.

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Dubious

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having or showing doubt; skeptical.

=> Kakashi got dubious of Tazuna after the first ninja attack.

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Eclectic

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deriving ideas from wide range of sources.

=> She has very eclectic tastes in literature.

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Eclipse

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overshadow

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Efficacy

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the ability to produce desired results.

=> Fortunately, the medicine had the efficacy to reduce the amount of pain John was feeling.

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Egotist

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braggart

80
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Eloquence

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the skill or ability to use language that impresses people.

=> The con man’s eloquence was beyond imaginable and he used that to get out of tough places.

81
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Elusive

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Hard to perceive, remember.
=> Scientists of the 19th century proposed very advanced theories relating to thermodynamics, elusive to the common mind.

82
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Enfeeble

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make feeble, to take away the strength.

=> The COVID-19 virus enfeebles the body and makes it prone to many other deadly diseases.

83
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Entreaty

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Humble request.

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Ephemeral

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lasting only for a short period.

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Equitable

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characterized by fairness.

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Equivocal

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ambiguous.

=> He responded the reporters questions equivocally.

87
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Erratic

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unpredictable.

=> Naruto is the most erratic shinobi of the leaf village.

88
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erstwhile

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of a former time.

89
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Estrange

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to no longer be affectionate with someone; alienate.

90
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Euphoric

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having or exhibiting a strong feeling of well-being or elation.

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Evanescent

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tending to disappear like vapor.

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Evasive

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tending to avoid self-revelation or commitment.

93
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exacerbate

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make worse.

=> He wanted desperately to put his arms around her but knew he’d just exacerbate the situation.

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Exigent

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requiring immediate action or attention.

=> I try not to be exigent with my students, but as a teacher I have to press them to get their work done.

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Expedient

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a means of attaining an end.

96
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Extant

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still in existence.

=> Kurama is still extant in Naruto’s body.

97
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Extraneous

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coming from outside.

98
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Feckless

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weak or incompetent.

=> he regarded the young man as feckless and weak.

99
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Fester

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becoming worse or more intense.

99
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Florid

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excessively complicated and intricate.

100
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Flout

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openly disregard.

=> Some companies flout the rules and employ kids as young as seven.

101
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Foreground

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make something prominent or important.

=> Mark Ruffalo often times try to foreground the Hulk in acting out as Bruce Banner.

102
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Forestall

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to prevent or hinder by taking action beforehand.

=> Yamato forestalled the danger that the Nine-Tails’ Cloak possessed on the body of Naruto.

103
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Forgo

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go without

=> She is planning to forgo her right to a trial and simply plead guilty

104
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Fortuitous

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happening or appearing by chance.

=> He got into the trade in Algiers through “a fortuitous accident “.

105
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Fractious

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irritable and quarrelsome.

=> Indeed, the game was as fractious as the one before.

106
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Frivolous

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unworthy of serious consideration; trivial or silly.

=> I thought that I was too frivolous to become a doctor.

107
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Galvanise

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to stimulate into awareness or activity.

=> The teacher tried to galvanize his pupils to do the hard work.

108
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Gawky

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ungainly; clumsy.

=> idk.

109
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Germane

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having relevance to a given matter; pertinent.

=> People don’t mind being sold to as long as it’s germane to the conversation.

110
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Gloom

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to feel or act sullen or despondent.

=> The Lord gloomed over the passing of his wife for several weeks.

111
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Gratify

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to give pleasure or satisfaction to someone.

=> The phenomenal performance of the team gratified the coach.

112
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Hackneyed

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made trite or commonplace by overuse.
=> However, George Harrison loses points for taking James Ray’s original 1960s rock song and turning it into something a bit hackneyed.

113
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Harbinger

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a person who announces the approach of another.

=> The people seemed to regard the American flag as the harbinger of a new era.

114
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Harmonious

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characterized by agreement or accord.

=> the g6 summit went harmoniously without any nuisances.

115
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Herald

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a sign that something is about to happen.

=> The clouds heralded the arrival of the mighty Thor, Son of Odin.

116
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Heterodox

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deviating from a particular doctrine or belief.

117
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Hidebound

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unable to change because of tradition or convention.

=> the economy of this country was once hidebound by public spending and monopolies.

118
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Hortatory

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urging to some course of action with strong arguments.

=> The coach gave his players a hortatory speech to inspire them to play well.

119
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Humdrum

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dull and monotonous.

=> People have to go through the same humdrum environment while doing a 9-5 job.

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