Bergen Evans Vocabulary Program
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- Acumen(n)
- A man with his acumen (keen insight) is not easily imposed on; sharp thinking
- Adamant(adj)
- He was adammant (unyielding, abolutly firm) in his refusal to reveal the name of the accomplice.
- Anomaly(n)
- anamalous(adj) His coonskin cap was an anomaly (a deviation from the usual, out of the ordinary) in the Congressional cloakroom.
- Antipathy(n)
- antipathetic(adj) My antipathy (dislike of, hartred for, aversion to) for communism was no secret.
- Apathy(n)
- apathetic(adj) His apthay (lack of feeling, absence of emotion) about the injured child was shocking.
- Assiduous(adj)
- assiduity(n) AN assiduous(constant, persistent) reader often makes a good scholar.
- Autonomous(adj)
- autonomy(n) Although the store carried the name of a chain it was really autonomous (self-governing, independent of outside control)
- Banal(adj)
- Banality(n) The Pompous speaker bored his audience with banal(trite, commonplace, uninspired) remarks.
- Candor(n)
- Candid(adj) The senator talked about political issues with suprising candor (frankness, outspokenness)
- Caprice(n)
- Capricious(adj) It was simply caprice(a whim, an unmotivated decision) which made him order the promotion of all red-headed men in the platoon.
- Castigate(v)
- Castigation(n) Editors love to castigate(severley criticise) crooked politicians.
- Chicanery(n)
- Many people assumer that there is always a certain amount of chicanery (trickery, subterfuge) in the letting of city contracts.