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Unit 7
Question | Answer |
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 |
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 |
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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