SA sophomore 2003 vocab for final exam
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- Adulation
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extreme admiration or flattery
-idolatry, veneration - Astute
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wise, perceptive, and shrewd to an acute degree
-shrewd, discerning, cagey, canny - Auspicious
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promising good, favorable in outlook, boding success
-favorable, promising, propitious - Congenial
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a) sharing like tastes
- consonant, kindred
b) pleasant, harmoniously agreeable
-genial, sociable - felicitous
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aptly expressed, fitting or well placed (of remarks)
- apt, fit, appropriate, delightful, pleasant - homage
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respectful deference as tribute to someone or something deemed worthy; any act of respectful admiration
- honor - Impeccable
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without fault or blame; free from error or sin
-flawless, faultless - Indomitable
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incapable of being overcome
-unconquearble, dauntless - Placid
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of a peaceful nature
-calm, unruffled, serene, quiet - Sanguine
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positive and confident in outlook; cheerful
-confident, optimistic - Furtive
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a)Stealthy or sly in manner, hoping to not be discovered
-secret, stealthy, surreptitious
b) stolen
-stolen - Heinous
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outrageously evil or appalling, shocking in the extreme
-outrageous, abominable, odious, villainous - Inimical
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a) distinctly unfriendly and uncongenial
-hostile
b)adverse or cotrary to, as an enemy
-adverse - Lurid
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arousing horror or undue sensation by being gruesome or revolting formerly, exceedingly pale in appearance
-gruesome, sensational - Macabre
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dwelling on death; gruesome or extremely horrible in aspect
ex: The logical predessor of Stephen King was Edgar Allen Poe, who penned macabre short stories. - Morbid
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a) preoccupied with unwholesome, gloomy, or macabre feelings
-grisly or gruesome
b)referring to or typical of disease; causing disease
-diseased - Nefarious
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noticeably evil, wicked, or impious
- vicious, wicked, evil, sinful - Sordid
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base, gross, or vile, mean and dishonorable in intent
-mean - Vendetta
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a lengthy blood feud, typically marked by revenge
-blood feud - Aficionado
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fan, anyone keenly devoted to something
-devotee - Quixotic
- idealistic, lacking practicality; noble or lofty in motives, yet unrealistic
- Imbroglio
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a complex. often bitter argument or dispute; a complicated situation or entanglement
-embroilment - Aphorism
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a pithy saying that expressed an acknowledged truth or shared feeling
-adage, saying
ex: The pen is mightier than the sword - Construe
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a) to interpret or understand the intention of, as "he construed my attitude as favorable"
-interpret, understand, infer
b) to analyze the construction of a sentence, especially when translating - Dissent
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to hold a different opinion
-differ, disagree; disagreement, difference - Glib
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a) easily fluent in speech or writing
-slick, superficial
b)revealing a lack of serious thought
example: a glib reply to my important question - Innuendo
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an indirect hint or unpleasant insinuation about someone's reputation or character; a veiled, unflattering comment
-insinuation - Reticent
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reserved in speech, tending to be silent; restrained in appearance or manner
-silent, reserved, taciturn, uncommunicative, close-mouthed - Rhetoric
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a)insincere or high-flown writing or speech
-grandiloquence, bombast
b) originally the study of effective communication or written composition - terse
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brief(of speech or writing)
-concise, succinct, pithy - Vociferous
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loudly and clamorously insistent
-clamorous, strident - Condescend
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to bend or stoop to a less formal or exalted level; to put on a superior air
-stoop, unbend - Divulge
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to reveal something held in confidence or secret
-reveal - Expurgate
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to clean or purge of something objectionable, wrong, or harmful
-purge - Extricate
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to free from an entanglement or awkward situation
-disentangle, untangle, disencumber - Instigate
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to egg on or urge forward
-incite, provoke, goad - remonstrate
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to raise objections or protest; to plead pro or con
-object, expostulate - Suffice
- to be enough or sufficient for a need
- Supplant
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to take the place of or replace because of superiority or by force or treachery; to erase and offer a substitue for
-replace - Vindicate
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a) to confirm or justify
-justify, substantiate, confirm
b) to free from blame
-absolve, exonerate, exculpate, acquit
c) to avenge
-avenge - Extenuating
- tending to lessen the seriousness of by offering excuses or reasons
- Germane
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both fitting and appropriate
-relevant, material - Inscrutable
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difficult to grasp, understand, or interpret
-mysterious, enigmatic - Intransigent
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unwilling to compromise or alter an opinion or custom, even though it may be extreme
-uncompromising - Palpable
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noticeably or readily perceived; able to be touched or felt; tangible
-perceptive - Prodigious
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impressively large, enormous; calling forth wonder or amazement
-awesome - Remiss
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showing lack of attention or care
-negligent, careless - Unctuous
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a) showing a false warmth or sincerity in an oily-smooth way
b) being self-consciously virtuous, earnest, or spiritual - vehement
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full of emotion, feeling, passion, intense; expressed with force or animosity
-impassioned, fervid, fervent - Dilettante
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someone who dabblies in the arts( or another field of knowledge) and has a little information but lacks serious commitment
-amateur, dabbler, tyro