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Analogy Prac Voc 2
Question | Answer |
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maudlin | overly emotional |
dispassion | calmness |
dauntless | brave |
trepidation | fear |
peroration | closing or end of a formal address |
denouement | the ending of a novel |
lugubrious | sorrow and mourning |
doleful | sorrow and mourning |
banal | commonplace or trite |
insipid | commonplace or trite |
ethereal | the heavenly or unearthly |
empyreal | heavenly or unearthlly |
obsequious | behavior that is excessively fawning, servile, or submissive |
sycophantic | behavior that is excessively fawning, servile, or submissive |
prophylactic | something that is used deliberately to pervent; drug used to prevent symptoms |
stratagem | something that is used deliberately to beguile |
infinitesimal | very small or bantam |
aphorism | a pithy (terse and cogent) saying, like "a stitch in time saves nine" |
adage | a brief, wise saying |
sagacious | wise |
tortuous passage | one that is winding twisted or crooked |
serpentine course | considered to be winding |