prof. adams voc. quiz 2
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- TRAUMATIC
- EMOTIONAL WOUNDING
- VOLATILITY
- VARY OFTEN OR WIDELY IN PRICE
- TARMAC
- AIRPORT RUNWAY (WHEN CANDIDATES GIVE SPEECHES)
- APPARITION
- ghostly figure
- TUMULTUOUS
- NOISY AND DISORDERLY
- SCRUTINIZE
- EXAMINE WITH GREAT CARE
- SHTICK
- WHAT YOUR KNOWN FOR
- SVELTE
- SLENDER OR GRACEFUL IN FIGURE; SLIM
- GLASNOST
- MORE OPENESS WHEN DISCUSSING POLITICS
- DOMESTIC
- relating to family
- HARBINGER
- ONE THAT INDICATES OR FORESHADOWS WHAT IS TO COME
- HUBRIS
- OVERLLY COCKY, OVERBEARING PRIDE
- PRAGMATISM
- MAATERFACT WAY OF ASSESING SITUATIONS OR SOLVING PROBLEMS
- DETENTE
- RELAXING OF TENSION BETWEEN RIVALS
- TABLOIDS
- NEWSPAPERS WITH NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM
- PRURIENT
- matters of sex
- TITILATING
- TO EXCITE PLEASURABILY
- CACHE
- STORE OF GOODS IN A HIDING PLACE
- PLETHORA
- an excess
- ONUS
- DIFFICULT OR DISAGREEABLE RESPONSIBILITY; BURDEN, OBLIGATION
- CLANDESTINE
- KEPT OR DONE IN SECRET TO CONCEAL UNPROPER PURPOSE
- ABORIGINES
- EARLIEST KNOWN PEOPLE TO A REGION
- NEMESIS
- SOURCE OF HARM OR RUIN
- EUPHORIA
- FEELING OF GREAT HAPPINESS
- MARTIN LUTHER KING
- CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
- PREMONITORY
- FOREWARNING
- ANTIPATHY
- STRONG FEELING OF REVERSION
- BENIGN
- OF A KIND AND GENTLE DISPOSITION
- CHICANERY
- DECEPTION BY TRICKERY
- VERACITY
- ADHERENCE FOR TRUTH; TRUTHFULLNESS
- TRENCHANT
- FORCEFUL, EFFECTIVE OR INVIGORATING
- STRIDENT
- LOUD, HARSH, GRATING OR SHRILL
- PRECURSOR
- INDICATES SOMETHING TO COME
- PERNICIOUS
- TENDING TO CAUSE DEATH OR INJURY
- PALPABLE
- EASILY PERCIEVED; OBVIOUS
- EUPHONIUS
- PLEASING TO THE EAR
- MARKED
- CLEARLY DEFINED
- ERUDITE
- DEEP WIDE LEARNING
- EFFETE
- DEPLETED OF VITALITY, FORCE OR EFFECTIVENESS
- DILATORY
- INTENDED TO DELAY
- STENTORIAN
- EXTREMELY LOUD
- VAGARIES
- EXTRAVEGANT OR ERRATIC NOTION OR ACTION
- VITRIOLIC
- BITTERLY SCATHING
- TACITURN
- habitually untalkitive
- apothegm
- TERSE, WITTY, INSTRUCTIVE SAYING
- ENIGMATIC
- BEING PUZZLING OR INEXPLICABLE
- INTERNECINE
- MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE
- SYCOPHANTIC
- SEEKS FAVOR BY FLATTERING INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE
- LUGRIBRIOUS
- MOURNFUL, DISMAL, GLOOMY
- ADMONITION
- cautionary advice/ warning