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VP2 Set 1
Question | Answer |
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Abortive | Ending without results |
Accretion | Growth in size, increase in amount |
Actuate | To put in motion |
Acuity | Sharp vision or perception characterized by the ability to resolve fine detail |
Adulation | Excessive flattery or admiration |
Allay | Alleviate; soothe |
Amity | Friendship; goodwill |
Aplomb | Self-confident assurance; poise |
Apprise | To give notice to; inform |
Balk | To stop short and refuse to go on |
Beatific | Displaying calmness and joy; relating to a state of celestial happiness |
Bedraggle | Soiled, wet and limp; dilapidated |
Beget | To produce, especially as an effect or outgrowth; to bring about |
Behemoth | Something of monstrous size or power; huge creature |
Berate | To scold harshly |
Blasphemous | Profane; extremely irreverent |
Bovine | Relating to cows; having qualities such as sluggishness or dullness |
Broach | To mention or suggest for the first time |
Cache | A hiding place; stockpile |
Cantankerous | Having a difficult, uncooperative, or stubborn disposition |
Catalyst | Something that provokes or speeds up significant change, especially without being affected by the consequences |
Caucus | A closed committee within a political party |
Cessation | A temporary or complete halt |
Coagulate | To clot; to cause to thicken |
Colloquial | Characteristic of informal speech |
Condole | To grieve, to express sympathy |
Consternation | An intense state of fear or dismay |
Constituent | Component, part; citizen, voter |