Vocabulary Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Abject | cast down, spiritless |
| Aesthetic | sensitive to beauty |
| Alacrity | a cheerful briskness |
| Auspicious | lucky, promising, favorable |
| Blatant | obvious, obtrusive |
| Capitulate | surrender on terms agreed upon, yield |
| Cogent | persuasive, brilliantly compelling |
| Conjecture | supposition, opinion |
| Cursory | hurried, rapid, superficial |
| Decorous | proper, becoming, suitable |
| Diffident | shy, timid |
| Disdain | despise, think him unworthy |
| Docile | obedient, manageable, unresisting |
| Equanimity | composure, calm temper, evenness of mind |
| Facade | front, false exterior |
| Facetious | inappropriately witty |
| Fastidious | particular, meticulous, hard to please |
| Fatuous | silly, complacently foolish |
| Flaunt | display, show off, boast of |
| Furtive | sly, stealthy, shifty |
| Glib | thoughtlessly, talkative, suspiciously, fluent |
| Gregarious | good mixer, enjoy meeting people |
| Harangue | noisy, pompous speech |
| Idiosyncrasy | oddness, eccentricity |
| Illicit | unlawful, furtive |
| Importune | insistently, begged, persistently urged |
| Incredulous | skeptical, disbelieving |
| Inexorable | inflexible, unyielding |
| Invective | abuse, angry reproach |
| Loquacious | talkative, garrulous |
| Ludicrous | laughable, ridiculous |
| Martinet | strict discipline |
| Maudlin | weakly sentimental |
| Nebulous | vague, hazy |
| Obsequious | servily attentive, fawning |
| Ostracize | banned from social and political favor |
| Panacea | cure-all |
| Pander | to provide gratification to another's vice |
| Placate | appease, pacify |
| Prodigious | huge, monstrous, mighty |
| Prolific | inventive, fertile, productive |
| Propensity | leaning, bent, natural inclination |
| Prudent | wisely cautious |
| Redundant | overly wordy |
| Surreptitious | without proper authority, by sly, clandestine |
| Taciturn | reserve, habitually silent |
| Truculent | fierce, savage, cruel |
| Vacillate | hesitate, waver, change |
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