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1
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Act of renunciation.

OR

Self denial.

Hedonic control = abstinence 
Indulgence control = temperance 
As a philosophy = asceticism 
Spending control = austerity 
Action control = resignation
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ABNEGATION

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Repeal a law, right or agreement.
(Repudiate, revoke, rescind, overturn, override, overrule, mitigate, negate, invalidate)

OR

Evade a responsibility.

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ABROGATE (abrogation)

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3
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Difficulty to understand.

“Those who are OBTUSE will have difficulty ascertaining that which is ABSTRUSE.”

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ABSTRUSE

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4
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Brisk and cheerful readiness.

OR

Enthusiasm in response.

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ALACRITY

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5
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Walk about from place to place.

AND RELATED:

To walk around something, especially ritualistically. May create concentric circles.

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AMBULATE

CIRCUMAMBULATE

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6
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Short story about a incident or person

AND RELATED:

By means of personal account rather than by research.

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ANECDOTE

ANECDOTALLY

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7
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Focal length of an opening through which light travels.

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APERTURE

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8
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DUBIOUS authenticity.

Unsanctioned, fallacious, spurious

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APOCRYPHAL (apocrypha: not genuine writings)

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9
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Secret and mysterious.

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ARCANE

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10
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Unreliable

OR

Doubting

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DUBIOUS

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11
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False or misleading charge meant to injure someone’s reputation.

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ASPERSIONS

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12
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Ability to do something without occupying the mind with low level details (repetition, reiteration, reinforcement).

To become an automatic response pattern or habit.

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AUTOMATICITY

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13
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Constant in application or attention.

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ASSIDUOUS-LY

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14
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That which is self evident or unquestionable.

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AXIOMATIC

Axiom: statement or proposition regarded as established or self evidently true

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15
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Charitably

WHEREAS

BENEFACTION: Conferring a benefit from a BENEFACTOR to BENEFICIARY

AND

MALIGNANCY: Deliberate harm or distress

A

BENEFICENCE

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16
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Prudent or astute: shrewd, savvy

LIKE

SAGACITY(OUS): Keen mental awareness or judgment.

CMPR

UNCANNY: Having a supernatural or inexplicable basis

A

CANNY

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17
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To walk around something - especially ritualistically.

Orbiting like with concentric circles.

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CIRCUMAMBULATE

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18
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Regard as belonging to a canon (sanctioned body of work)

Aggrandizement, apotheosize, deify, dignify, ennoble, idolize, laud

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CANONIZE (make CANONICAL)

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19
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Wary and unwilling to take risks.

Reluctant, noncommittal, chary, restrained

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CIRCUMSPECT

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20
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To merge (often unrelated) ideas together.

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CONFLATE

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21
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Anxiety caused by regret for wrongdoing OR hesitation about the rightness of an action.

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COMPUNCTION

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22
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A destructive blaze.

OR

Something INFLAMMATORY.

A

CONFLAGRATION(IVE)

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23
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Disorder and commotion.

OR

A turbulent uprising.

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TUMULT-UOUS

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24
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Incitement to insurrection.

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SEDITION(OUS)

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25
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Guided by principles.

OR

Industrial and organized.

oCean

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CONSCIENTIOUS

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26
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Adopt a policy or idea as your own (appropriation or misappropriation)

OR

Divert for for use in a role other than as originally intended.

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CO-OPT

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27
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To revoke an order.

OR

An order revoking a prior order.

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COUNTERMAND

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28
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Readiness to believe: boarding on gullible or naive.

WHEREAS

INCREDULOUS: Disbelieving, dubious, unconvinced

A

CREDULOUS

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29
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An insensitive action or statement.

OR

Without refinement.

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CRASS

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30
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Showing fearlessness and determination: indomitable, audacious, intrepid, courageous, daring

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DAUNTLESS

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31
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Division into two mutually-exclusive or antithetical alternatives.

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DICHOTOMY(OUS)

Superlative: most DICHOTOMIC

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32
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Direct an unequivocal opposition.

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ANTITHETICAL (the antithesis)

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33
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Intended to teach with a moral instruction as an ulterior motive as its pedagogy.

Instructive, doctrinal, pedagogic (manner of teaching)

WHEREAS

AUTODIDACT: Self taught

A

DIDACTIC

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34
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Serving to separate or divide.

Make disjoint.

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DISJUNCTIVE

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35
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Bookish and pedantic (narrowly, stodgily, and ostentatiously learned)

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DONNISH

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36
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One who unduly emphasizes minutia in the display of knowledge.

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PEDANT-IC-ALLY

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37
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Two-faced and deceitful.

A

DUPLICITY(OUS)

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38
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Having traits traditionally considered feminine.

CMPR

EFFEMINIZE: To make EFFEMINATE

A

EFFEMINATE

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39
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Exhausted or vigor.

Fatigued, degenerate, decadent, ANEMIC.

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EFFETE

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40
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Vivacious and enthusiastic.

OR

Liquid fizzle.

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EFFERVESCENT

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41
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Expressing gratitude or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt way.

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EFFUSIVE

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42
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To make lucid (clear) or divine (discoverable though intuition) through illumination.

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ELUCIDATE

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43
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Easy to understand (NOT ABSTRUSE)

OR

Transparently clear.

A

PELLUCID

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44
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Based on observation or experience rather than the application of logic or theory.

An A POSTERIORI

A

EMPIRICAL

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45
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Having an internal cause or origin.

OPPOSITE

Having an external cause or origin.

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ENDOGENOUS

EXOGENOUS

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46
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Depleting of energy or enthusiasm.

Fatiguing or disheartening.

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ENERVATING

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47
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Short-lived or transitory.

“The ephemeral joys of childhood.”

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EPHEMERAL

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48
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Contemplates a possibility or desired future event.

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ENVISAGE-D(S)

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49
Q

Theory of knowledge.

Investigation to distinguish justified belief from opinion.

OPPOSITE

Proven to be false; fallacious

A

EPISTEMOLOGY(ICAL)

PSEUDO-LOGIC(AL)

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50
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Mental composure in a difficult situation.

Poised, levelheaded, self-possessed

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EQUANIMITY

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51
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Displaying knowledge gained through studying.

A

ERUDITE(ION)

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52
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Understood by a small population with specialized knowledge or interest.

Subject may seen ARCANE.

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ESOTERIC-ISM

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53
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Delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.

Elegant, exquisite, dainty, airy

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ETHEREAL (up in the ETHER)

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54
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The event of gradually fading from sight.

Transitoriness

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EVANESCENCE

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55
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An exact copy of something.

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FACSIMILE

56
Q

Careful attention to detail.

Difficult to please, exacting.

Especially scrupulous in matters of taste or propriety.

A

FASTIDIOUS

57
Q

Abandoned, deserted

Bereft or deprived of hope.

A

FORLORN

58
Q

Lack of seriousness, lightheartedness

FRIVOLOUS: Without serious purpose or value.

A

FRIVOLITY

59
Q

Shock into action

OR

(Coat with zinc protectively)

CMPR

TANTALIZE: Torment with the promise of something unobtainable | it BECKONS the EVANESCES away.

A

GALVANIZE

60
Q

Wealthy and privileged

OR

(Thinly covered with gold paint)

A

GUILDED

61
Q

Symbol that represents an idea directly, rather than a word or phoneme

EXMP: Chinese character, hieroglyphics, trademarks

A

IDEOGRAM

62
Q

An adherent of an ideology who is dogmatic and uncompromising

(INTRANSIGENT in their belief system)

SYN: evangelist (enthusiast advocate), fanatic, crusader, zealot

ANT: ICONOCLASTIC (tears down beliefs institutions)

A

IDEOLOGUE

63
Q

Lacking in sense, significance, or ideas (bordering on stupid)

INANE questions or ideas.

A

INANE

64
Q

Imply, hint or ALLUDE to

OR

Make known

ROOT: Intimate - very close association

A

INTIMATED (or to intimate)

65
Q

Produce fear and timidity

Daunting, forbidding, formidable or frightening

A

INTIMIDATION

66
Q

Instill by persistent instruction

LIKE

BUT more derogatory INDOCTRINATE: To teach to accept a system of beliefs uncritically

A

INCULCATE

67
Q

Initial stage; beginning

LIKE

INCEPTION: Starring point of an institution or activity

A

INCIPIENT

68
Q

Lacking in interest, stimulation, or challenge

OR

Lacking in taste or savor

A

INSIPID

69
Q

Persisting tirelessly or unwearyingly

A

INDEFATIGABLE

70
Q

Too great to be described in words

Indescribable, unspeakable

a JE NE SAIS QUOI quality

A

INEFFABLE

71
Q

Not producing the desired effect.

A

INEFFECTUAL

72
Q

Treat as a child or in a way that denies maturity in age or experience

A

INFANTILE

73
Q

Innocent and unsuspecting.

ANT

DISINGENUOUS: Without candor or sincerity, pretending that one knows less than what they really do

A

INGENIOUS

74
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Unfriendly, hostile and antagonizing

Menacing

A

INIMICAL

75
Q

Impact in a negative way

LIKE

ENCROACH: Intrude on a property

OR

INFRINGE: Violate a law

A

IMPINGE

76
Q

Exempt from punishment or consequence

WHEREAS

IMMUNITY: Not susceptible to any harm

A

IMPUNITY

77
Q

Ignorant or uninterested in ideas outside of one’s own experience

Incurious, parochial, provincial, sectarian, xenophobic

A

INSULAR

78
Q

Process of understanding

An exercise of the intellect; reasoning

A

INTELLECTION

79
Q

Refusing to agree or compromise

Inflexible

A

INTRANSIGENT(CE)

80
Q

Equal divisions of time

As a cadence or tempo

A

ISOCHRONAL

81
Q

Fond of company; sociable

Extroverted

A

GREGARIOUS

82
Q

Stimulating sexual desire.

A

LASCIVIOUS

83
Q

Inappropriate interest in sex.

A

SALACIOUS

84
Q

Offensive desire.

A

LECHEROUS

85
Q

Pursuing pleasure, self indulgent.

ANT:
ABNEGATION: self-denial

CMPR:
HEDONIC: considered in terms of pleasant or unpleasant sensations.

A

HEDONISTIC

86
Q

Emitting light though not caused by heating.

CMPR:
ILLUMINATE: make comprehensible (or visible) by shedding light on (literally or figuratively)

A

LUMINESCENT

87
Q

Light emitted from heating.

OR:

Passionate or emotional,

A

INCANDESCENT

88
Q

A person who inspires or influences in a particular sphere.

OR:

A light giving body.

A

LUMINARY

89
Q

Bungling and clumsy.

ANT:
ADROIT: Skillful of hand/mind; adept, dexterous, agile, nimble

A

MALADROIT

90
Q

Careful and precise with details.

A

METICULOUS

91
Q

A small, relatively unimportant, venial sin; minor offense or infraction; a misdemeanor.

A

PECCADILLO

92
Q

A statement with a negative, derogatory, or condescending connotation that is intended to disparage or belittle.

A

PEJORATIVE

93
Q

With precision and accuse attention to detail. (Not surprising they they are punctual.)

A

PUNCTILIOUS

94
Q

Showing knowledge of event before they take place; predictive, prophetic, or clairvoyant.

A

PRESCIENT

95
Q

Act of one animal preying on an another.

OR:

Attacking and plundering.

A

PREDATION

96
Q

To base something on.

OR:

Affirm something about the subject of a proposition.

A

PREDICATE

97
Q

Expressing unwarranted or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature.

A

PRETENTIOUS

98
Q

Having an excessive interest in inappropriate or sexual matters.

A

PRURIENT

99
Q

Do something in a makeshift IMPROMPTU way.

A

EXTEMPORIZE

100
Q

Alternations in the course of something.

Fluctuations, permutations, switchover, transposition

LIKE:

UNDULATE: Rise and fall in a wavelike manner.

A

VICISSITUDE

101
Q

To change the relative position or sequence of an order.

A

TRANSPOSE

102
Q

Excessively grasping and covetous.

OR

RAVENOUS - a rapacious appetite.

A

RAPACIOUS

103
Q

Repeated application of a rule or procedure to successive results.

MATHEMATICS: Repeated iterations of a calculation to closer approximate the solution.

A

RECURSIVE(ION)

104
Q

Not revealing one’s thoughts or emotions.

WHEREAS:

RELUCTANT: is unwilling, disinclined, circumspect, wary, indisposed to

A

RETICENT(CE)

105
Q

Obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.

A

RECALCITRANT(CE)

106
Q

Idea, place or routine regarded as too important to be interfered with.

A

SACROSANCT

107
Q

Gesture (gesticulating) or utterances (uttering) made as greeting or acknowledgement of another’s arrival or departure.

A

SALUTATION

108
Q

Making a showing of being morally superior.

Self righteous, pious

A

SANCTIMONIOUS

109
Q

Optimistic in the face of adversity.

May display APLOMB, composure, or EQUANIMITY.

A

SANGUINE

110
Q

Conscientious or exacting.

OR:

Having principles (scruples)

A

SCRUPULOUS

111
Q

Specifically plausible, but actually wrong.

A

SPECIOUS

112
Q

Not being what it purports to be.

LIKE: APOCRYPHAL

A

SPURIOUS

113
Q

Enduring hardship without complaining.

A

STOIC(ISM)(AL)

114
Q

Not easily stirred or moved mentally (a mental state).

LIKE: impassive, unemotional

A

STOLID

115
Q

Restriction on a behavior.

OR:

A sternly critical or censorious remark.

A

STRICTURE

116
Q

Fawning and OBSEQUIOUS (: servile obedience or deference)

Someone who make EFFUSIVE compliments.

UNCTUOUS: INGRATIATINGLY flattering OR oily

A

SYCOPHANT(IC)

117
Q

Joyful ecstasy or delight.

OR

Carry a person to another sphere of existence.

A

RAPTURE(OUS)

118
Q

Characterized by portraying servile obedience or excessive deference.

A

OBSEQUIOUS(NESS)

119
Q

To move to and fro in positions, like a pendulum.

Move in a PENDULAR motion.

A

OSCILLATE(ION)

120
Q

Understood or implied without being stated.

A

TACIT

121
Q

The practice of ordering and classifying.

Eg: kingdom, phylum (division), class, order, family, genus, species

A

TAXONOMY

122
Q

Easy to control (to make tractable).

ANT:

Difficult to control (an intractable problem)

A

(IN)TRACTABLE

123
Q

Stubborn or resistant to stimulus.

WHEREAS:

REFRACT(ION)(IVE): The ability to change direction of a ray (light, sound, heat) by altering its wave velocity.

A

REFRACTORY

124
Q

Any part, division, or installment.

A

TRANCHE

125
Q

Lacking in freshness or originality due to overuse. Stale.

LIKE:

PLATITUDE: flat, dull, trite remark, uttered as if it were profound.

PROSAIC(ALLY): lacking poetry, commonplace or dull, unimaginative

PEDESTRIAN: lacking in vitality and imagination, uninspired and disenchanted

BROMIDE: (chem: salt) a person who is PLATITUDINOUS and boring.

A

TRITE

126
Q

Feeling of resentment at some fancied slight or insult.

To take…

A

UMBRAGE

127
Q

Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.

LIKE:

INSIPID: without distinctive qualities (situationally) or bland (as to food)

A

VAPID

128
Q

Having merely the appearance or semblance of truth.

A

VERISIMILITUDE

129
Q

Friendship; peaceful harmony.

LIKE:

AMNESTY: to pardon or offer forgiveness.

ANT:

ENMITY: feeling of hostility, animosity, or antagonism.

A

AMITY

130
Q

A tactical maneuver to gain an advantage.

A

GAMBIT

131
Q

Sphere of operation or influence.

LIKE:

GAMUT: entire series or range.

A

AMBIT

132
Q

Witty; brilliantly clever.

A

SCINTILLATING

133
Q

Badly conceived, made, or carried out.

A

MISBEGOTTEN

134
Q

Acting like an uncle; in being kind, patient, and generous to younger people.

A

AVUNCULAR

135
Q

Depart in a sudden and secretive way to avoid capture or prosecution.

A

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