Vocabulary Level G English Final
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- Abrogate
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(v) to repeal, cancel, declare null
ANNUL - Ambient
- (adj) completely surrounding, encompassing
- Asperity
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(n) roughness,severity; bitterness or tartness
HARSHNESS - Burnish
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(v) to make smooth or glossy by rubbing, polish; (n)gloss, brightness,luster
SHINE - Cabal
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(n) a small group working in secret
CLIQUE, GANG - Delectable
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(adj) delightful, highly enjoyable; deliciously flavored, savory; (n) an appealing or appetizing food or dish
SCRUMPTIOUS - Deprecate
- (v) to express mild disapproval; to belittle
- Detritus
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(n) loose bits and pieces of material resulting from disintegration or wearing away; fragments that result from any destruction
WRECKAGE - Ebullient
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(adj) overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling
EXHILARATED - Eclectic
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(adj) drawn from different sources; (n) one whose beliefs are drawn from various sources
SELECTIVE - Flaccid
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(adj) limp, not firm; lacking vigor of effectiveness
SOFT - impecunious
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(adj) having little or no money
IMPOVERISHED - inexorable
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(adj) inflexible, beyond influence; relentless, unyielding
INESCAPABLE - moribund
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(adj) dying, on the way out
OBSOLESCENT - necromancer
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(n) one who claims to reveal or influence the future through magic, especially communication with the dead; in general, a magician or wizard
HARRY POTTER - Onerous
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(Adj) burdensome; invovling hardship or difficulty
WEIGHTY - rife
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(adj) common, prevalent, widespread, happening often; full, abounding; plentiful, abundant, replete
LACKING - rudiments
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(n. pl) the parts of any subject or discipline that are learned first; the earliest stage of anything
FUNDAMENTALS - sequester
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(v) to set apart, seperate for a special purpose; to take possession of and hold in custody
ISOLATE - winnow
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(v) to get rid of something unwanted, delete; to sift through to obtain what is desirable; to remove the chaff from wheat by blowing air on it; to blow on, fan
SIFT, FILTER - aesthetic
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(adj) pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty
ARTISTIC - defunct
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(adj) no longer in existence of functioning, dead
EXTINCT - discomfit
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(v) to frustrate,thwart, or defeat; to confuse, perplex, or embarrass
FOIL - espouse
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(v) to take up and support; to become attached to, adopt; to marry
EMBRACE - fetish
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(n) an object believed to have magical powers, an object of unreasoning devotion or reverence
CHARM, TALISMAN - gregarious
- (adj) living together in a herd or group; sociable, seeing the company of others
- hapless
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(adj) marked by a persistent absence of good luck
UNLUCKY - impeccable
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(adj) faultless, beyond criticism or blame
FLAWLESS - importune
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(v) to trouble with demands; to beg for insitently
INTERPOSE - irreparable
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(adj) incapable of being repaired or rectified
IRREMEDIABLE - laconic
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(adj) concise, using few words
TERSE - languish
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(v) to become weak, feeble, or dull; to droop; to be depressed or dispirited; to suffer neglect
FADE - mendacious
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(adj) given to lying or deception; untrue
FALSE - nadir
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(n) the lowest point
BOTTOM - omnipresent
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(adj) in all places at all times
GOD - perfunctory
- (adj) done in a superficial or halfhearted manner; without interest or enthusiasm
- plaintive
- (adj) expressive of sorrow or woe, melancholy
- requite
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(v) to make suitable repayment, as for a kindness, service or favor; to make retaliation, as for an injury or wrong, to reciprocate
RECOMPENSE - tantamount
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(adj) equivalent, having the same meaning, value or effect
INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM - abstruse
- (adj) extremely difficult to understand
- affront
- (n) an open or intentional insult; a slight (v) to insult to one's face; to face in defiance, confront
- canard
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(n) a false rumor; fabricated story
TABLOIDS - captious
- (adj) excessively ready to find fault; given to petty criticism; intenced to trap, confuse, or show up
- cognizant
- (adj) aware, knowledgeable, informed; having jurisdiction
- contrite
- (adj) regretful for some misdeed or sin; plagued by a sense of guilt; thoroughly penitent
- cynosure
- (n) the center of attraction, attention, or interest; something that serves to guide or direct
- decorous
- (adj) well behaved, dignified, socially proper
- deign
- (v) to think it appropriate or suitable to one's dignity to do something; to condescend
- desiccated
- (adj) thoroughly dried out; divested of spirit or vitality; arid and uninteresting
- efficacy
- (n) the power to produce a desired result
- engender
- (v) to bring into existence, give rise to, produce; to come into exsistence, assume form
- ethereal
- (adj) light, airy, delicate; highly refined; suggesting what is heavently (rather than earthbound)
- facade
- (n) the front or face of a building; a surface appearance (as opposed to what may lie behind)
- ghoulish
- (adj) revolting in an unnatural or morbid way; suggestive of someone who robs graves or otherwise preys on the dead
- incongruos
- (adj) not in keeping, unsuitable, compatible
- machination
- (n) a crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designeed to accomplish something (usually evil)
- mesmerize
- (v) to hypnotize, entrance; to fascinate, enthrall, bewitch
- opprobrium
- (n) disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt, reproach
- putative
- (adj) generally regarded as such; reputed; hypothesized, inferred
- beatific
- (adj) blissful; rendering or making blessed
- behemoth
- (n) a creature of enormous size, power, or appearance
- blandishment
- (n, pl.) anything designed to flatter or coax; sweet talk, apple-polishing
- cacophonous
- (adj) harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant
- chicanery
- (n) trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double-dealing
- consign
- (v) to give over to another's care, charge, or control; to entrust, deliver; to set apart for a special use
- coup
- (n) a highly successful stroke, masterstroke, tour e force, act, plan, or stratagem; a sudden takeover of power or leadership
- euphemism
- (n) a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a subsitute
- febrile
- (adj) feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic
- gainsay
- (v) to deny, contradict, controvert; to disputer, oppose
- imminent
- (adj) about to happen, threatening
- innate
- (adj) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in
- loath
- (adj) unwilling, reluctant, disinclined
- manifest
- (adj) clear, evident to the eyes or mind (v) to show plainly, exhibit, evince (n) a list of cargo and or passengers
- minutiae
- (pl.n) small or trivial details, trifling matters
- moratorium
- (n) a suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay
- nostrum
- (n) an alleged cure-all; a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness
- pariah
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(n) one who is rejected by a social group or organization
OUTCAST - visionary
- (adj) not practical, lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream (n) one given to far-fetched ideas; a dreamer or seer characterized by vision or foresight
- wizened
- (adj) dry, shrunken, and wrinkled (often the result of aging)
- amenity
- (n) that which is pleasant or agreeable ( pl) attractive features, customs
- aperture
- (n) an opening, gap, hole; orifice
- dissidence
- (n) a difference of opinion; discontent
- epicurean
- (adj) devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; fond of good food, comfort and ease; with discriminating tastes (n) a person with discriminating tastes
- improvident
- (adj) not thrifty; failing to plan ahead
- iniquity
- (n) wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act
- inviolable
- (adj) sacred; of such a charcter that it must not be broken; injured or profaned
- mutable
- (adj) open to or capable of change, fickle
- nascent
- (adj) just beginning to exist or develop; having just come into existence
- obeisance
- (n) a deep bow or other body movemnt, indicating respect or submission; deference, homage
- panegyric
- (n) formal or elaborate praise, a tribute
- pillory
- (n) a device for publicly punishing offenders; a means for exposing one to public ridicule (v) to expose to public ridicule
- pittance
- (n) a woefully meager allowance, wage, or portion
- presage
- (v) to foreshadow or point to a future event (n) a warning or indication of the future
- progeny
- (n) descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples
- promulgate
- (v) to proclaim or issue officially; to make known far and wide
- rectitude
- (n) uprightness, righteousness; correctness
- restive
- (adj) restless, hard to manage, balky
- seraphic
- (adj) angelic, heavenly, celestial
- subsist
- (v) to have existence; to remain alive, manage to make a living or mantain life; to persist or continue