Vocab 9-10

Question 0

Amiable

Answer 0

Friendly, sociable and congenial; civil and urbane

Question 1

Ambiguous

Answer 1

Having more than one meaning, unclear, uncertain

Question 2

Crass

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Coarse, crude, and unrefined

Question 3

Discursive

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Rambling, moving from one topic to another randomly

Question 4

Docile

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Easily managed, obedient, passive

Question 5

Estrange

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To alienate, to separate

Question 6

Exonerate

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To free from blame, obligation, or responsibility: to exculpate

Question 7

Gratuitous

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Given freely, unwarranted

Question 8

Hypothesize

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To reach a conclusion based on an assumption or something not proven

Question 9

Indignation

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Anger as a result of something unjust

Question 10

Induce

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To bring on or to bring about

Question 11

Intractable

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Stubborn, difficult to manage

Question 12

Introspective

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The quality of examining one’s own mind or thoughts

Question 13

Lucid

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Easily understood, mentally sound

Question 14

Meticulous

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Taking great care

Question 15

Misanthrope

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A hater of mankind

Question 16

Munificent

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Very generous

Question 17

Plagiarize

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To steal and to use another’s writings as one’s own

Question 18

Profuse

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Extravagantly abundant, flowing freely

Question 19

Recluse

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A person who lives in solitude, a hermit

Question 20

Sated

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Satisfied fully, indulged to excess

Question 21

Stupefy

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To dull the senses as to put into a stupor

Question 22

Terse

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Concise

Question 23

Transient

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Quickly passing, fleeting

Question 24

Virtuoso

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One skilled in the fine arts as an accomplished musician, a savant

Question 25

Abstracted

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Removed in thought from the immediate situation, lost in one’s own mind

Question 26

Adulation

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Extreme praise or admiration

Question 27

Adversity

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Misfortune, unfavorable happening

Question 28

Burgeon

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To sprout, to newly emerge

Question 29

Chimera

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A fantasy; a horrible creature of the imagination

Question 30

Culpable

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Deserving blame; guilty

Question 31

Decadent

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Decaying

Question 32

Entreaty

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A plea, an earnest request

Question 33

Fatuous

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Foolish, silly and an obnoxious way, inane

Question 34

Humane

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Kind, compassionate, sympathetic and considerate

Question 35

Indulgent

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Lenient, especially toward oneself

Question 36

Ineptness

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Lack of competence or judgement

Question 37

Ingrate

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An ungrateful person

Question 38

Inundate

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To flood, to overflow

Question 39

Miser

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One to live in wretched circumstances to save and hoard money

Question 40

Nefarious

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Extremely wicked, evil, vicious

Question 41

Prattle

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Meaningless sound, babble

Question 42

Predilection

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Preference

Question 43

Procrastinate

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To defer action; to delay

Question 44

Stoic

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A stoical person; not showing passion or feeling, indifference, impassive

Question 45

Sufferage

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Right to vote

Question 46

Summon

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To call together, to send for or to request to appear

Question 47

Transparent

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Quality of being able to see through, clear

Question 48

Turbulence

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Wild or disturbing

Question 49

Viable

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Capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately