Discussion and Debate Vocabulary Test
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- Abrogate
- To abolish
- Alleviate
- To relieve
- Bombastic
- Pompous; using inflated language
- Cajole
- To coax
- Caustic
- Burning; sarcastically biting
- Cognizance
- Knowledge
- Dais
- A raised platform for guests of honor
- Destitute
- Extremely poor
- Encumber
- To burden
- Filch
- To steal
- Digressive
- Wandering away from the subject
- Elicit
- To draw out by conclusion
- Euphonious
- Pleasing in sound
- Faux pas
- A social error or slip
- Gory
- Bloody
- Grueling
- Exhausting
- Haphazard
- Random; by chance
- Histrionic
- Theatrical
- Impious
- Irreverent
- Infirmity
- Weakness
- Impeccable
- Faultless
- Ineffable
- Unutterable; cannot be expressed in speech
- Ken
- Range of knowledge
- Laconic
- Brief and to the pointq
- Malevolent
- Wishing evil
- Moot
- Debateable
- Nettle
- To annoy; to vex
- Oaf
- A stupid; awkward person
- Panacea
- A cure all; a remedy for all diseases
- Pervious
- Penetrable
- Conclave
- A private meeting
- Copious
- Pientiful
- Insipid
- Tasteless; dull
- Mutinous
- Unruly; rebellious
- Portentous
- Ominous; serious
- Reimburse
- To repay
- Savoir faire
- Tact; sophistication; poise
- Stymie
- To present an obstacle; to stump
- Veracious
- Truthful
- Transcribe
- To copy
- Desuetude
- Disused condition
- Disgruntle
- To make discontented
- Dour
- Sullen; stubborn
- Extol
- To praise; to glorify
- Feign
- To pretend
- Gesticulation
- A motion or gesture
- Glib
- Fluent
- Heinous
- Atrocious; hatefully bad
- Inimical
- Unfriendly; hostile
- Laggard
- Slow; sluggish
- Arduous
- Strenous; hard
- Bedraggle
- To wet thoroughly
- Carping
- Finding fault
- Cleft
- A split
- Cursory
- Casual; hastilly done
- Derision
- Ridicule
- Equestrian
- A horseback rider
- Fastidious
- Difficult to please; squeamish
- Fraught
- Filled
- Incumbent
- Office-holder
- Bungle
- To spoil by a clumsy manner
- Bourgeois
- Middle class; convential
- Cerebration
- Thought
- Cryptic
- Mysterious; hidden; secret
- Dissuade
- To advise against
- Emancipate
- To set free
- Fickle
- Changeable; faithless
- Gaff
- To hook; a barbed fishing spear
- Gist
- Essense
- Implicit
- Understood but not stated