Vocab Review

Question 1

Adorn (v)

Answer 1

To make more beautiful or attractive

Question 2

Aesthetic (adj)

Answer 2

Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty

Question 3

Allegory (n)

Answer 3

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

Question 4

Allure (n)

Answer 4

The quality of being powerful and mysteriously attractive or fascinating

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Ambivalent (adj)

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Having mixed or contradictory feelings about something or someone

Question 6

Attribute (v)

Answer 6

To regard as arising from a particular cause or source.

(N) a quality or feature regarded as ones characteristic

Question 7

Banal (adj)

Answer 7

Devoid of freshness and originality

Question 8

Boon (n)

Answer 8

A blessing given by a personage of power or rank

Question 9

Cavalier (adj)

Answer 9

Showing a lack of proper concern in an offhand or haughty manner

Question 10

Circumvent (v)

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To go around or bypass

Question 11

Collective (adj)

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Forming a whole characteristic of a group

Question 12

Compensate (v)

Answer 12

To make up for; to provide an equivalent; to counterbalance

Question 13

Composure (n)

Answer 13

A calm and controlled state of mind

Question 14

Concoct (v)

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To prepare or make by combining ingredients

Question 15

Contempt (n)

Answer 15

The feeling that a person or thing is worthless or beneath consideration

Question 16

Culminate (v)

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To reach the highest point; to end and come to a close

Question 17

Degenerate (v)

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To diminish in qualify; to deteriorate (n) a person who has declined from a standard norm

Question 18

Dismissive (adj)

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Indicating rejection or a lack of interest

Question 19

Disparate (adj)

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Distinct in kind; different

Question 20

Dissipate (v)

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To scatter or disperse; to spend wastefully or squander

Question 21

Dynamic (adj)

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Characterized by contact change, energy and effective action or progress

Question 22

Ebullient (adj)

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Overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement

Question 23

Effusive (adj)

Answer 23

Unrestrained with feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval

Question 24

Derisive (adj)

Answer 24

Contemptuous and mocking

Question 25

Disburse (v)

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To distribute or scatter; to pay out or expend

Question 26

Discern (v)

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To perceive or recognize something as distinct or different

Question 27

Disconcerting (adj)

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Disturbing to ones composure due to the confusion of unexpected nature of the situation

Question 28

Discourse (n)

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Communication of thoughts by words, typically of a serious topic

Question 29

Discrepancy (n)

Answer 29

An instance of difference or inconsistency

Question 30

Emulate (v)

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To imitate in an effort to equal or surpass

Question 31

Equanimity (n)

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Mental calmness and composure especially under strain

Question 32

Ethereal (adj)

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Fleeting, temporary; delicate and refined; heavenly or celestial; relating to upper region of space

Question 33

Euphemism (n)

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Substitution of a mild or indirect word or expression for one considered too blunt or offensive

Question 34

Euphoric (adj)

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Intensely happy, excited, or confident

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Excoriate (v)

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To criticize in an extreme fashion

Question 36

Aemulari

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To rival or strive

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Aim

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To copy

Question 38

Aether

Answer 38

The upper pure, white, sky

Question 39

Aithein

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To burn

Question 40

Aidh

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To burn

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Eu

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Good

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Pheme

Answer 42

Speaking

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Pherein

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To carry

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Dis

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Apart or away

Question 45

Mittere

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Send or let go

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Be

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Pertaining to

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Supare

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To throw or scatter

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Dynamis

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Powerful

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Effus

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To pour forth or spread abroad

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De

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Down

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Ridere

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To laugh

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Cernere

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Distinguish or separate

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Currere

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To run

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Crepare

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Rattle or crack

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Com

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With, together

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Pen

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Pull, draw, stretch

Question 57

Pausare

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Cease, lay down

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Coquere

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To cook

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Ad

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To

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Tribuere

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Assign, give, bestow

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Bha

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To speak

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Caballus

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Horse

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Au

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To perceive

Question 64

Lure

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To call, invite

Question 65

Acclaim (v)

Answer 65

To praise enthusiastically and publicly, (n) enthusiastic and public praise