Vocab day 11 Part 2

Question 1

aberrant

Answer 1

deviating from what is normal

Question 2

abeyance

Answer 2

temporary suppression / suspension

sent : our weekend plans were held in abeyance until we could get a weather forecast

Question 3

abstemious

Answer 3

moderate in appetite / amount.

sent: alcohol should be consumed in abstemious amounts.

Question 4

aesthetic

Answer 4

beautifying / artistic

Question 5

alacrity

Answer 5

eagerness/ cheerful willingness

Question 6

alleviate

Answer 6

to relieve/ improve quality

Question 7

amalgamate

Answer 7

combined to make a unified whole

Question 8

ambiguous

Answer 8

open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning./ unclear
syn : ambivalent, equivocal, enigmatic

Question 9

ambivalence

Answer 9

the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
syn: equivocation , indecision

Question 10

ameliorate

Answer 10

make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.

syn: mitigate

Question 11

anachronism

Answer 11

out of the chronological period

Question 12

analogous

Answer 12

comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared.
sent: “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Question 13

anarchy

Answer 13

a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.

Question 14

anomalous

Answer 14

deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected.

syn: abnormal, atypical, aberrant, incongruous, eccentric

Question 15

antipathy

Answer 15

hostility/ a deep-seated feeling of aversion.

syn: antagonism, animosity, aversion, enmity, repugnance, abhorrence

Question 16

apathy

Answer 16

indifference / lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

syn: insouciance, nonchalance, torpor

Question 17

apprise

Answer 17

to inform.

Question 18

approbation

Answer 18

approval/ praise.

syn: assent, commendation, acclamation, adulation, venerate, accolades, plaudits, laudation

Question 19

appropriate

Answer 19

1. suitable/ apt in circumstance
2. confiscate/seize
3. devote money to a special purpose.

Question 20

arcane

Answer 20

understood by few; mysterious or secret.

syn; covert, clandestine, enigmatic, esoteric, obscure, abstruse, recondite, inscrutable, impenetrable

Question 21

arduous / arduously / arduousness

Answer 21

laborious/burdensome.

syn: onerous, demanding, heavy, toilsome

Question 22

artless

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1. without guile or deception.
   sent: “an artless, naive girl”
   syn: naive, ingenuous.
2. without skill or finesse.

Question 23

ascetic

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self-denying / characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

syn : abstinence, austere, abstemoius, spartan, self-abnegating, chaste

Question 24

aspersion

Answer 24

Slander / false rumor / an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.
syn: calumny, slander, maligning, libel, vlification, denigration, defamation.

Question 25

assiduous

Answer 25

diligent/ hardworking | syn; industrious, sedulous

Question 26

attenuate

Answer 26

weakened/ reduce force of something.

Question 27

audacious

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boldness/ daring | syn: intrepid, valiant, brazen, insolent(rude boldness), imprudent(rude boldness),

Question 28

austere

Answer 28

1. stern/severe/strict. 2 self-denying. 3. plain

Question 29

aver

Answer 29

declare to be true. | syn: affirm(validate/confirm), allege, assert, avouch, avow, claim,

Question 30

banal / banally

Answer 30

lacking originality/overused, ordinary, | syn: hackneyed, insipid, vapid, trite, platitudinous, prosaic, pedestrian

Question 31

belie

Answer 31

to contradict / misrepresent / give a false impression.

Question 32

bombastic

Answer 32

use of inflated/pompous language. | syn: grandiloquent, flatulent

Question 33

beneficial

Answer 33

kind / doing good

Question 34

boorish

Answer 34

rude / insensitive | syn: churlish

Question 35

burgeon

Answer 35

to flourish | syn: accumulate, escalate, mount, proliferate

Question 36

burnish

Answer 36

to polish

Question 37

buttress

Answer 37

support / to reinforce. | syn: bolster

Question 38

cacophonous

Answer 38

unpleasant / harsh sounding noise. | syn: dissonance, incongruous, chaotic, discordance

Question 39

cant

Answer 39

1. hypocritical talk. | 2. jargon.

Question 40

capricious

Answer 40

given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour. syn: fickle(chnaging frequently), mercurial, erratic, vacillating, arbitrary(random choice rather than any reason), whimsical(unpredicted).

Question 41

castigated; castigating / castigate

Answer 41

to subject to severe punishment. | syn: punish, chastise, chasten

Question 42

catalyst

Answer 42

something causing change

Question 43

chicanery

Answer 43

trickery, fruad

Question 44

coagulate

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thicken, congeal. to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass. syn:congeal, jell, jelly

Question 45

commensurate

Answer 45

proportional

Question 46

compendium

Answer 46

brief/ comprehensive summary

Question 47

complaisant

Answer 47

overly polite/ willing to please

Question 48

conciliatory:

Answer 48

reduce hostility. | syn: appeasing, conciliating, disarming, mollifying, propitiate

Question 49

concomitant

Answer 49

existing concurrently. | syn: accompanying, coexisting.

Question 50

confound

Answer 50

1. baffled, perplexed, mix up. | 2. refute(to prove wrong by argument/evidence)

Question 51

contentious

Answer 51

quarrelsome

Question 52

conundrum

Answer 52

puzzle with no solution, paradoxical.

Question 53

convoluted

Answer 53

twisted, complicated

Question 54

cosmology

Answer 54

study of the universe

Question 55

craven

Answer 55

cowardly

Question 56

credence

Answer 56

acceptance of something as true

Question 57

decorum

Answer 57

proper behavious

Question 58

deference

Answer 58

: respect and esteem due to a superior or an elder | regard towards something/someone bcz they are elder.

Question 59

delineate

Answer 59

to represent or depict. | outline, sketch, trace

Question 60

demotic

Answer 60

pertaining to people