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Unit 7
| Question | Answer |
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| Admonish | to scold |
| Amorphous | shapeless |
| Belabor | to dwell/harp on; to argue a point in excessive detail |
| Censure | to express severe disapproval |
| Conjecture | to guess |
| Decorous | proper |
| Docile | easily taught, obedient |
| Euphemism | a pleasant substitute for an offensive word |
| Foible | minor character flaws |
| Ignominy | disgrace |
| Iconoclast | one who attacks popular beliefs |
| Maudlin | overly sentimental/emotional |
| Onerous | requiring difficult and heavy obligations, burdensome |
| Philistine | a hostile person who does not appreciate culture or arts |
| Provident | preparing for the future |
| Reprehensible | worthy of blame |
| Skeptical | doubtful |
| Surfeit | an excess, surplus |
| Torpor | sluggishness, inactivity |
| Vindicate | to justify, to clear from blame |
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Unit 8
| Question | Answer |
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| Ambulatory | able to walk or move |
| Anecdote | a short, humorous story |
| Apotheosis | the highest point in the development of something; culmination |
| Bemused | confused; bewildered |
| Charlatan | a fraud; quack; con man |
| Consensus | a general agreement |
| Definitive | conclusive; final |
| Dormant | inactive; asleep |
| Exalt | to glorify, to praise |
| Forsake | to abandon; to renounce; to relinquish |
| Impartial | unbiased; neutral; not favoring one side or the other |
| Invective | insulting or abrasive speech |
| Languish | to become weak, listless, or depressed |
| Mellifluous | sweetly flowing |
| Ostensible | appearing to be true, but not necessarily true; claimed |
| Plaintive | expressing sadness or sorrow |
| Solvent | able to pay one's bills |
| Sycophant | one who sucks up to others; a person who is overly flattering |
| Transcend | to go beyond or above; to surpass |
| Visionary | a dreamer |
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Unit 9
| Question | Answer |
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| Approbation | approval |
| Benign | not harmful; kind; gentle |
| Bourgeois | middle class; suburban (economically) |
| Clique | an exclusive group bound together by some shared quality or interest |
| Contentious | argumentative; quarrelous |
| Delude | to deceive or trick |
| Drone | to talk on and on in a dull way |
| Exhort | to urge strongly; to give a serious warning to |
| Frivolous | not having any serious purpose or value; pointless |
| Impetuous | impulsive; extremely impatient |
| Irascible | easily angered or provoked; irritable |
| Mendicant | a beggar |
| Palliate | to relieve something without getting rid of the problem |
| Portent | an omen; a sign of something coming in the future |
| Resignation | reluctant acceptance of a bad situation |
| Spawn | to cause; to produce a large number |
| Status quo | The existing state or circumstances; the way things are |
| Tout | to praise |
| Vociferous | loud; noisy |
| Voluminous | very large; spacious |
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