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Verbal Reasoning Flashcards

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Forestall

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Prevent/obstruct an anticipated action/event by taking action ahead of time

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Scanty

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Small or insufficient in quantity/amount

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Panegyric (n)

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Elaborate praise or laudation

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Gauche (adj)

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Tactless

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Unstinting (adj)

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Bestowed liberally

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Limpid (adj)

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Characterized by transparent clearness; easily intelligible; calm and untroubled

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Fatuous (adj)

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Foolish (especially in a smug or self-satisfied way)

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Teratoid (adj)

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Monstrously deformed

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Decorous (adj)

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Marked by propriety and good taste

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Felicitous (adj)

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Very well suited or expressed; pleasant or delightful

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Diffident (adj)

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Hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence

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Capricious (adj)

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Impulsive; unpredictable

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Facile (adj)

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Easily accomplished or attained; readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth (facile tears)

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Bellicose (adj)

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Favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars

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Doughty (adj)

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Marked by fearless resolution

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Retrench (v)

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To cut down; reduce

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Rebuke (v)

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To criticize severely

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Sophistry (n)

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Subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation

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Exacerbate (v)

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To make more violent, bitter, or severe (exacerbate the situation)

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Expiate (v)

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Extinguish the guilt incurred by; make amends for

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Coruscate (v)

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To give off or reflect bright beams or flashes; to be brilliant or showy in technique or style

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Preternatural (adj)

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Existing outside of nature

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Teleological (adj)

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Exhibiting or relating to design or purpose–especially in nature

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Countenance (n)

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Calm expression; mental composure

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Preclude (v)

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To make impossible by necessary consequence

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Variance

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The fact or state of being in disagreement; state of being a variable

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Consonant (adj)

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Being in agreement or harmony

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Candor (n)

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Freedom from prejudice or malicious; unreserved, honest, or sincere expression;
Forthrightness

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Edify (v)

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To instruct and improve–especially in moral and religious knowledge

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Cadge (v)

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Beg

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Mendicate (v)

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To beg

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Allay (v)

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To reduce the intensity of; relieve; to calm or pacify

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Anodyne (adj)

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Capable of soothing or eliminating pain; relaxing

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Monocoque (adj)

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Constructed in one piece

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Pavonine (adj)

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Of or resembling a peacock (in color, design, or iridescence)

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Parietal (adj)

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Having to do with college

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Saturnine (adj)

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Melancholy or sullen; being bitter or sardonic

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Attuned (v)

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To bring into a harmonious or responsive relationship

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Execrable (adj)

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Detestable, very bad, wretched

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Expediency (n)

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Appropriateness to the purpose at hand; adherence to self-serving means

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Prodigious (adj)

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Impressively great in size, force, or extent; extraordinary, marvelous

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Sidereal (adj)

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Pertains to time…

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Etiolate (v)

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To cause to appear pale and sickly; to cause a plant to develop without chlorophyll by preventing exposure to sunlight

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Intransigent (adj)

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Refusing to moderate a position; uncompromising

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Comportment (n)

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Bearing; deportment

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Invidious (adj)

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Likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others (of an action/situation, not person)

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Plangent (adj)

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Loud and resounding; expressing or suggesting sadness

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Nugatory (adj)

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Of little or no importance

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Denouement (n)

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The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; the end result

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Antediluvian (adj)

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Extremely old and antiquated

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Pusillanimous (adj)

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Lacking courage; cowardly

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Jejune (adj)

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Not interesting. Dull.

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Ludology (n)

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The study of games/gaming

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Disencumber (v)

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Relieve from an encumbrance (problem, etc)

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Demarcate (v)

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Set the boundary

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Repudiate (v)

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To reject the validity or authority of; to disown

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Disburse (v)

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To pay out, as from a fund

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Equanimity (n)

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The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure

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Tyro (n)

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A beginner in learning something

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Agronomy (n)

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Application of the various soil and plant sciences to soil management and crop production; scientific agriculture

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Effusive (adj)

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Unrestrained or excessive in emotional expression; gushy; profuse or overflowing

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Serpentine (adj)

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Of or resembling a serpent

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Thewy (adj)

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Sinewy (adj)

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Lean and muscular

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Pneumatic (adj)

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Of or relating to air or other gases

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Flocculent (adj)

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Fluffy; wooly

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Burke (v)

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The suppress or extinguish quietly; stifle

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Fete (v)

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To celebrate or honor with a festival, feast, or an elaborate entertainment

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Adroit (adj)

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Dexterous; deft

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Venal (adj)

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Corruptible, obtainable for a price, open to bribery

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Exscind (v)

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To cut out; excise

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Obloquy (n)

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Abusively detractive language or utterance

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Calumny (n)

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A false statement maliciously made to injure another’s reputation

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Evince (v)

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To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest

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Ossification (n)

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The natural process of bone formation; hardening or calcification

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Recreant (adj)

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Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause; craven or cowardly

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Redolent (adj)

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Having or emitting a fragrance, aromatic; suggestive or reminiscent

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Recondite (adj)

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Not easily understood

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Arcane (adj)

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Known or understood by only a few

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Droll (adj)

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Amusingly odd or whimsical; comical

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Verisimilitude (n)

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The quality of appearing to be true or real

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Noisome (adj)

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Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; harmful ad dangerous

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Atavism (n)

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The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, usually cases by the chance recombination of genes

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Mephitic (adj)

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Poisonous or foul-smelling

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