Vocab 9/21

Question 0

Adumbrate

Answer 0

Foreshadow

Question 1

Acumen

Answer 1

Insight

Question 2

Approbation

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Approval

Question 3

Aplomb

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Confidence, self-assurance

Question 4

Abet

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“To aid” , encourage

Question 5

Ancillary

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Secondary

Question 6

Abate

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To lessen, ameliorate

Question 7

Akin

Answer 7

Similar to

Question 8

Absolve

Answer 8

To free from blame or responsibility; to forgive

Question 9

Acumen

Answer 9

Keen insight

Question 10

Abjure

Answer 10

To give up(rights), to deny

Question 11

Adulation

Answer 11

High praise

Question 12

Allegation

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A statement that is unproven and needs to be proven

Question 13

Aberration

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Departure from the normal; abnormality

Question 14

Abstemious

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Moderate, especially in eating and drinking

Question 15

Albatross

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A significant impediment, handicap, burden; bird

Question 16

Amenity

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A pleasant manner or feature

Question 17

Anathema

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Used for exclamation; cursed, doing something horrible, sacrilege

Question 18

Adherent

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Follower

Question 19

Acolyte

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Beginning assistant, intern

Question 20

Alacrity

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Willing to do something

Question 21

Abrade

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Belittle someone

Question 22

Admonition

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Moderate warning

Question 23

Disdain

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to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.

to think unworthy of notice, response, etc.; consider beneath oneself: to disdain replying to an insult.

Question 24

Contentious

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tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew.
causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy: contentious issues.

Question 25

Cavalier

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haughty, disdainful, or supercilious: an arrogant and cavalier attitude toward others.
offhand or unceremonious: The very dignified officials were confused by his cavalier manner.

Question 26

Inquisitive

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given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
unduly or inappropriately curious; prying.

Question 27

Didactic

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intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.

Question 28

Diffident

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lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc.

Question 29

Deferential

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respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
respectful or courteous regard: in deference to his wishes.

Question 30

Despondent

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feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.

Question 31

Flippant

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frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.

Question 32

Prose

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the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.

Question 33

Compunction

Answer 33

a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.

Question 34

Indignation

Answer 34

strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.