Kaplan Top 200 -2
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- impervious
- impossible to penetrate
- impetuous
- quick to act without thinking
- implacable
- unalbe to be calmed down or made peaceful
- inchoate
- not fully formed, disorganized
- ingenuous
- showing innocence or childlike simplicity
- inimical
- hostile unfriendly
- innocuous
- harmless
- insipid
- lakcing interest or flavor
- intransigent
- uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled
- inundate
- to overwhelm to cover with water
- irascible
- easily made angry
- laconic
- using few words
- lament
- to express sorrow, to grieve
- laud
- to give praise, to glorify
- lavish
- to give unsparingly
- lethargic
- acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
- loquacious
- talkative
- lucid
- clear, easily understood
- luminous
- bright brillant ,glowing
- malinger
- to evade responsiblity by pretending to be ill
- malleable
- capable of being shaped
- metaphor
- a figure of speech comparing two different things, a symbol
- meticulous
- extremely careful about details
- misanthrope
- a person who dislikes others
- mitigate
- to soften, to lessen
- mollify
- to calm or make less severe
- monotony
- lack of variation
- naive
- lacking sophistication or experience
- obdurate
- hardened in feelin, resistant to persuasion
- obsequious
- overly submissive and eager to please, compliant, deferential, servile
- obstinate
- stubborn, unyielding, pertinacious
- obviate
- to prevent, to make unnecssary
- occlude
- to stop up, to prevent the passage of
- onerous
- troublesome and oppressive, burdensome, difficult, exacting, arduous
- opaque
- impossible to see through
- opprobrium
- public disgrace, dishonor
- ostentation
- excessive showiness
- paradox
- contradiction or dilemma
- paragon
- model of excellence or perfection, apotheosis
- pedant
- someone who shows off learning
- perfidious
- willing to betray one's trust
- perfunctory
- done in a reoutine way, indifferent
- permeate
- to pentetrate, to imbue
- philantropy
- charity
- placate
- to soothe, pacify
- plastic
- able to be modleed or bent, pliant
- plethora
- excess, surfeit
- pragmatic
- practical as opposed to idealistic
- precipitate
- to throw violently or bring about abruptly, lacking deliberation, abrupt
- prevaricate
- to lie or deviate from the truth, equivocate, perjure
- pristine
- fresh and clean
- prodigal
- lavish, wasteful, extravagant
- proliferate
- to increase in number quickly
- propitiate
- to conciliate, to appease
- propriety
- correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs
- prudence
- wisdom, caution, or restraint
- pungent
- shart and irritating to the senses
- quiesecent
- motionless
- rarefy
- to make thinner or sparser
- repudiate
- to reject the validity of
- reticent
- silent, reserved
- rhetoric
- effectiuve writing or speaking
- satiate
- to satisfy fully or overindulge
- soporific
- causing sleep or lethargy
- specious
- deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious
- stigma
- mark of shame or discredit, blemish
- stolid
- unemotional, lacking sensitivity
- sublime
- lofty or grand. grand noble glorious
- tacit
- done without using words
- taciturn
- silent, not talkative
- tirade
- long, harsh speech or verbal attack, diatribe, fulmination, harangue, vilification
- torpor
- extreme mental and physical sluggishness
- transitory
- temporary, lasting a brief time
- vacillate
- to sway physically, to be indecisive
- venerate
- to respect deeply
- veracity
- filled with truth and accuracy
- verbose
- wordy
- vex
- to annoy, to irk
- volatile
- lively or explosive, tempermental, capricious
- waver
- to fluctuate between choices
- whimsical
- acting in a fanciful or capricious manner, unpredictable
- zeal
- passion, excitement, fervor