Test Flashcards
Abhor
To regard with repugnance, HATE, DETEST
Bigot
INTOLERANT PERSON to any different opinion or belief.
Counterfeit
Made in imitation, no genuine, FAKE, SIMULATED
ENFRANCHISE
Set FREE, admit to citizenship. LIBERATE, RELEASE.
Hamper
to hold back or interfere with. RESTRICT, BLOCK.
Kindle
To start, to cause to begin burning. INCITE, FLAME, BLAZE.
Noxious
Toxic, injurious. Harmful to health or physicial well-being.
Placid
Calm, mild. Pleasantly calm or peaceful.
Remuneration
Payment, compensation. Reward or pay.
Abrasive
Irritating, annoying. Tending to annoy, overly
aggressive.
Bilk
Cheat, defraud. Intended to defraud.
Covert
Hidden, secret. Under the protection of,
covered.
Engender
CAUSE to happen INDUCE, PRODUCE, give rise to.
Hangar
Wide structure used for housing airplanes, SHELTER, SHED.
Knotty
COMPLICATED, TRICKY, Difficult
Nuance
A SUBTLE variation. SLIGHT DIFFERENCE
PLAGIARISM
Act of imitating, COPYNING, FALSIFICATION.
Renown
Widespread and high repute. FAME, GLORY, HONOR.
Tangent
Disgressing suddenly from a course and turn to another, GOING OFF TOPIC
Abasement
Reduce in rank, reputation. HUMILIATION, SHAME.
Billowing
To rise or surge, BOUNCE, SURGE.
Cower
To crouch in fear or shame. HIDE SNEAK.
Enhance
IMPROVE, INCREASE, INTENSIFY, MAGNIFY.
Harangue
A long speech, intense verbal. DECLAMATION, LONG LECTURE.
NULLIFY
Declare legally rejected, CANCEL, REVOKE, ANNUL.
Replete
Abundantly supplied. FILLED, LOADED, WELL-STOCKED.
Tangible
Capable of being touched. REAL, PLAPABLE, CONCRETE.
Abrogate
Abolish by official terms, INVALIDATE, ANNUL.
Nuzzle
Lie very close to something, CUDDLE, CARESS.
Tardy
Not in time, LATE,DELAYED, BELATED.
Detrimental
To cause damage, Harmful.
Restive
Impatient of control, restless uneasy. Refusing to go foward. Nervous, unquiet.
Forerunner
ancestor, precursor. Sign of something to follow.
Tycoon
person of great power, influence and wealth. Magnate.
Conundrum
anything that puzles, a puzzling question or problema. A riddle.
Confine
limit or restrict. Frontier. To shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place.
Contrite
showing remorse. Filled with a sense of guilt.
Blandish
to influence by flattery. Cajole.
Mishap
unfortunate accident. Misadventure or mischance.
Tamper
with the purpose of altering, damaging or misusing. To make changes specially to falsify. Interfere.
Poised
being in balance or equilibrium. Self-assurance, refinement.
Vicarious
performed, received or suffered in place of another. Taking the place of another person or thing. Substitute.
Offspring
children of a particular parent or progenitor. A descendant. A product, outcome or result.
Decipher
to make out the meaning of. To discover. Solve, unravel, explain.
Drawback
a disadvantage, an undesirable feature. An amount paid back from a charge made. A tax.
Staggeringly
overwhelming, shocking.
Defile
to make dirty, pollute. To make impure or violate the chastity.
Brusque
abrupt in manner. Rough.
Flout
scoff at, to treat with disdain.
Putative
supposed. Inferred.
jeopardize
To put in risk
Steep
Having a sharp inclination
ROGUE
unreliable person
