Vocab 3 U1-3

Question 1

adj) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

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acquisitive

Question 2

v) to claim or take without right

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arrogate

Question 3

adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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banal

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v) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

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belabor

Question 5

adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way;
n) petty, nagging criticism

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carping

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adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

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coherent

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v) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

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congeal

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v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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emulate

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n) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

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encomium

Question 10

v) to avoid, shun, keep away from

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eschew

Question 11

adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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germane

Question 12

adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

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insatiable

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adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

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intransigent

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adj) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

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invidious

Question 15

n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

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largesse

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n) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

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reconnaissance

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v) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

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substantiate

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adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

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taciturn

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v) to stall or act avasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

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temporize

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adj) capable of being held or defended

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tenable

Question 21

v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

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accost

Question 22

n) a comment indication strong criticism or disapproval

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animadversion

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adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

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avid

Question 24

adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

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brackish

Question 25

n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

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celerity

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adj) staying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

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devious

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n) in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

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gambit

Question 28

n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher;

adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent

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halcyon

Question 29

adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

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histrionic

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adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion;
n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife

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incendiary

Question 31

n) a whirlpool of great size and violence and destruction; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence or destruction

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maelstrom

Question 32

adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

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myopic

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adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

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overt

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adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling

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pejorative

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n) the sate of being proper, appropriateness;

pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

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propriety

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n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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sacrilege

Question 37

adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

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sammarily

Question 38

adj) asking humbly and earnestly;

n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

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suppliant

Question 39

n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

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talisman

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v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

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undulate

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v) to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry

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cavort

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n) belief, mental acceptance

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credence

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v) to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate

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decry

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v) to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression

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dissemble

Question 45

adj) very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict

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distraught

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n) a formal statement of commendation; high praise

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eulogy

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v) to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke

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evince

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v) to remove from a grave, to bring to light

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exhume

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adj) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable

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feckless

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adj) dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision

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murky

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adj) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards

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nefarious

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adh) stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative

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piquant

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adj) developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic

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primordial

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n) nearness in place or time; kinship

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propinquity

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adj) real, having a sold basis; considerable in number or amount; meaningful and on topic

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substantive

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adj) not usual or expected; not in character

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unwonted

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adj) founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical

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utopian

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n) language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression

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verbiage

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adj) green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement

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verdant

Question 60

adj) having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity

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viscous