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Vocab Test 8
Meier's test
Question | Answer |
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opportunist | takes advantage of the situation |
ostentatious | exaggerated display |
pervasive | spreading throughout |
placate | to still |
predilection | to need specifically |
presumptuous | rude, arrogant |
quandary | puzzle, dilemma |
rebuff | blunt, abrupt, rejection |
relegate | to assign to a lower position |
reprove | to scold |
resign | to quit or give in |
savory | pleasing to the sense of of taste, or herb |
scrutinize | to look at critically |
somber | gloomy or melancholy in character, dimness |
stoic | seeming unaffected, no emotion |
sycophant | use of flattery, brown nosing |
tentative | hesitant |
torpid | hot and humid |
turbulence | state of violent disturbance and disorder |
unprecedented | never having happened before |
vacillation | undecided, to move back and forth |
vagrant | no house or job |
virtuouso | master at as a skill |
volatile | explosive sudden changes |
zealot | fanatic |