NSF nationals vocabulary V1

Question 0

A la mode

Answer 0

Fashionable, stylish

Topped with ice cream

Question 1

A cappella

Answer 1

Without musical accompaniment

Question 2

Abdicate

Answer 2

to relinquish, or renounce a throne

To discard

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Abscess

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a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue

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Abysmal

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Like a abyss, deep down

Immensely hopeless or wretched

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Abyss

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Deep down, immeasurable space

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Accolade

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A ceremonial embrace

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Acerbic

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Sour in taste or mood

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Acid test

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A severe or crucial test

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Acquiescence

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Agreement without objection

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Acquisitive

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Tending or seeking to own, often greedily

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Actuary

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A person who calculates premium rates and tax

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Adamantine

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Unyielding or firm in attitude

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Addled

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To make or become confused or rotten

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Adjunct

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Joined, together, something added on to another

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Ad-lib

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To improvise a speech or part if it

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Admonitory

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Tending or serving to admonish or warn

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Adulation

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Servile flattery

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Adventurism

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defiance or disregard of accepted standards of behavior.

Question 19

Advertent

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Attentive, heedful

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Affable

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Easy to approach or friend

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Aegis

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The breastplate or shield of zues or athena

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Agog

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Highly excited by eagerness

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Agoraphobia

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Abnormal feel of being in the crowds

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Alacrity

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Prompt, cheerful readiness

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altruistically

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Dedicated to the welfare of others

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Amalgamate

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To combine substances

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Ambivalence

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State of uncertainty, or fluctuation

Question 28

Ambulatory

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Related to pedestrians or walking

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Amity

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Friendship, peaceful harmony

Question 30

Amino acids

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any of a class of organic compounds that contains at least one amino group

Question 31

Amorphous

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Without a clearly defined shape or form

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Anachronistic

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A error in chronology

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Analgesic

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A pain remover

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Ancillary

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Subordinate, subsidiary

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Anomalous

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Unusual, inconsistent with what is normal

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Ante

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A poker stake usually put up in advance

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Anthropology

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The study of humankind

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Aerie

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A large nest, a bird house

Question 39

Antithesis

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A person or thing that is the direct opposite of one another