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English Comp Vocab 1
Final
Question | Answer |
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Amorphous | lacking form |
Capitulate | to surrender |
Circumspect | watchful |
Expiate | make amend |
Propitious | favorable conditions |
Solipsism | only oneself exists |
Specious | lacking real merit |
Temerity | reckless |
Tenuous | by a thread |
Vitiate | to make faulty |
Abrogate | abolish |
Feckless | incompetent |
Histrionic | Dramatic |
Insipid | boring |
Obsequious | submissive |
Parsimonious | stingy |
soporific | boring |
prevaricate | lie |
ubiquitous | everywhere |
usurp | take over |
Aggrandize | to glorify |
Anathema | a thing someone hates |
Capricious | unpredictable |
Craven | cowardly |
demagogue | gains power by emotion |
diatribe | critical rant |
iconoclast | non conformist |
Ineffable | indescribable |
obstreperous | resisting control |
sedulous | diligent |
Acumen | smarts |
Aver | declare positively |
Beatitude | amazing |
Dilatory | procrastinate |
Egregious | very bad |
Germaine | relevant |
Halcyon | peaceful |
laconic | short |
quixotic | chivalrous |
schism | rift |
effervescent | lively |
eschew | shun |
garrulous | talkative |
petulant | snarky |
harbinger | omen |
polemic | controversial argument |
progenitor | ancestor |
stolid | unemotional |
symmetry | uniform |
torpid | inactive |
abate | to diminish |
carnal | sexual desire |
disparate | different |
Incipiant | beginning stage |
pedantic | arrogantly smart |
screed | a long written diatribe |
slatternly | slut |
umbrage | annoyance |
vagary | unpredictable action |
virulent | actively poisonous |
antipathy | aversion |
august | respectful person |
bellicose | eager to fight |
Chicanery | used to go to great lengths to win |
Deleterious | harmful to oneself |
inchoate | undeveloped |
imprecate | cuss out |
oscillate | sway back and forth |
suppliant | pleading look |
urbane | polite, sophisticated |
urbane | polite, sophisticated |
abject | support |
aegis | support |
cavil | criticize |
comely | attractive |
ephemeral | short lived |
hackneyed | overused |
imbroglio | misunderstanding |
perfidious | deceitful |
prescience | foresight |
stultify | humiliate |