Verbal Unit One
Terms
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- Wane
- To decrease in apparent size, importance, or brilliance
- intemperate
- immoderate, unbridled, violent, given to excessive indulgence in alcohol
- idiosyncratic
- a mental constitution, view or feeling, or mode of behavior peculiar to a person
- idealistic
- follwing after wanted things
- Concise
- Brief but comprehensive in explanation
- Banal
- trite, feenle, commonplace, unoriginal
- Demean
- lower the dignity of/ insult
- cliche
- a hackneyed phrase or opinion
- prophecy
- a prediction of future events
- pedantry
- a person who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning
- anecdote
- a short account of an interesting story
- deleterious
- harmful (to mind and body)
- immaterial
- unimportant
- perilous
- full of risk, dangerous
- predisposed
- influence favorably in advance
- Irreproachable
- faultless, blameless
- Archaic
- primitive, old
- tyrannical
- acting like a tyrant, imperious
- clandestine
- secretly
- precarious
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1. Uncertain, dependent on change
2. unstable, insecure - prolific
- abundantly productive, copius
- Utopian
- Idealistic reformer
- Enervated
- depreive of vigor or vitality
- Onerous
- burdensome, involving heavy obligations
- cosmopolitan
- consisting of people from many.all parts; free from prejudice