Vocab #1-50

Question 1

Adept

Answer 1

Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

Question 2

Admonish

Answer 2

Warn,scold,caution

Question 3

Ambiguous

Answer 3

Unclear meaning, two possible interpretations

Question 4

Apocalyptic

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Involving or portending widespread devastation or ultimate doom

Question 5

Apocryphal

Answer 5

Of questionable authenticity

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Appellation

Answer 6

A name,title, or designation

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Archetype/archetypal

Answer 7

An original model, pattern or type

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Ascertain

Answer 8

To determine; to find out

Question 9

Assiduous

Answer 9

Diligent, persistent

Question 10

Baize

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A type of coats woolen cloth, often green, usually used for covering card tables

Question 11

Base

Answer 11

Inferior;dishonorable

Question 12

Bastion

Answer 12

A well-fortified position

Question 13

Berate

Answer 13

To rebuke,reprimand, or scold

Question 14

Bourgeoisie

Answer 14

The middle class ; in Marxist theory, the social group opposed to proletariat

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Calumny

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Slander; a false statement maliciously made to injure another’s reputation

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Cant

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Tedious talk; monotonous talk filled with platitudes

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Censure

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To reprimand ;to to excommunicate

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Coarse

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Lacking refinement or rough grained in texture

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Confute

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To prove to be wrong or in error

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Connoisseur

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A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts

Question 21

Corporeal

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Having physical substance,material form

Question 22

Decry

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Express strong disapproval of

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Defer;deference

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Submit or yield to another’s wish or opinion

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Deliquesce

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To disappear as if by melting

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Acuity

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Sharpness,keenness

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Dilatory

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Inclined to waste time and lag behind

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Disparage

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To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value them

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Draught

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A current of unpleasantly cold air blowing through a room

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Dray

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A large low carriage with four wheels pulled by horses

Question 30

Dyspeptic

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Dyspepsia; always angry or easily annoyed or having indigestion

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Elicit

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To call forth, draw out, or provoke; to bring out or draw out

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Emit

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To send out a beam small noise smell or gas

Question 33

Espionage

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Spying; the discovery of secrets, especially political or military information of Anets country or industrial information of the business

Question 34

Facile

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Easy, effortless

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Feign

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To pretend, to dissemble, to miss represent

Question 36

Fester

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To become infected, or suppurate; add infection

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Festoon

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Draped decorated as for a parade or state event

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Fledgling

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New and inexperienced

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Gainsay

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Challenge disputed

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genuflect

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Magnificent,splendid,vast beauty

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Grudging

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Done in an unwilling way; unwillingly

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Hack

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A reporter,artist or writer who’s work is not very good

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Husband (Ed)

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To use something carefully so that you do not use all of it

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Illicit

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Contrary to accepted morality of convention

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Illusory

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Not real, based in illusion

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Imbible

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To drink,especially alcohol

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Inexorable

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Without end, interminable

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Introspective

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Examination of and attention to your own ideas,thoughts, and feelings

Question 49

Kowtow

Answer 49

To show too much respect to someone in authority,always obeying them and changing what you do in order to please them; why a ‘today’ does, sucking up