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Vocab List 8B
Vocabulary List 8B
Question | Answer |
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multifarious | having great variety; numerous and diverse |
obsolete | out-of-date, no longer in use |
omnivorous | eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything; having a wide variety of tastes |
parsimonious | stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small |
quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
recalcitrant | stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority |
reprisal | an injury done in return for injury |
revel | to take great pleasure in; (n) a wild celebration |
stultify | to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on |
suave | smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses |