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ELA vocab test
Question | Answer |
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What does caricature mean? | A portrayal where features are distorted, a parody |
What does auspicious mean? | Favable |
What does taciturn mean? | Quiet, not verbose |
What does ingenuity mean? | Cleverness, inventiveness, resourcefulness |
What does contentious mean? | Exhibiting a wearisome tendency to quarrels and dispotes |
What does fractious mean? | Unruly |
What does malevolence mean? | Ill will or evil intentions |
What does guileless mean? | Without deceit; honest deceitful |
What does innate mean? | Existing from birth, inborn learned |
What does assuage mean? | To ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome; to calm |
What does asinine mean? | Extremely or utterly foolish |
What does piety mean? | Devotion and reverence to God |
What does hone mean? | To sharpen, to make more intense, more effective to dull |
What does indigenous? | Native to a certain area |
What does quaint mean? | Unusual in character or appearance, old- fashioned |
What does domicile mean? | Home or residence, abode |
What does diminution mean? | Diminishment, reduction |
What does profane mean? | Showing contempt toward sacred things; common or not respectful |
What does benevolence mean? | Kindness, generosity, charity |
What does dictum mean? | An authoritative statement, decree |