vocab quiz

Question 1

Apathy

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Lack of enthusiasm or interest

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Avarice

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extreme greed for wealth/material wealth

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Cantankerous

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Unwilling to cooperate; bad tempered

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Craven

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Lacking courage; cowardly

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Culpability

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A state of guilt

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Desiccate

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Lacking vitality; lifeless; lose water or moisture

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desultory

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wandering aimlessly; no plan; jumping from one thing to another

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Dilatory

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Wasting time; inclined to waste time and lag behing; avoiding direct confrontation

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discreet

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Careful in one’s words; wise self-restraint; heedful of potential consequences

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Disdainful

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Having arrogant superiority; lack of respect

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Enmity

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Feeling of a hostile person;

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Equivocal

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Two or more interpretations; intend to mislead

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Esoteric

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Understood only by few;

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Inane

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Pointless

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Insolence

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An offensive disrespectful actl rude

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Insouciance

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Cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you

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Inundate

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To be overwhelmed by; fill or cover completely, usually with water

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Lugubrious

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Excessively mournful

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Mercenary

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Used of soldiers hired by foreign army; profit orineted

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Peripatetic

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Traveling on foot; a person who walks from place to place; follower of Aristotle

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Pithy

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Concise and full of meaning

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Prepossessing

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Creating a favorable impression

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Pungent

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Causing a sharp or irritaing sensation; having a strong, sharpe taste or smell

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Querulous

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Usually complaining; complaining in an annoyed way

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Solvent

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Capable of meeting financial obligation; liquid substance capable of dissokving other usbstaces; a statement yhat solves a problem or explans how to solve the problem

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Temerity

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Fearless, daring; excessive confidence

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Timirousness

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Timid; scared

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Unkempt

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not properly mainteined; not cared for

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Vanity

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Valueless or futile; feelings of excessive pride