Vocabulary units 1-6
Terms
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- approbation
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expression of approval
noun
appro'bation - assuage
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to make easier, milder
verb
a'ssuage - coalition
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a combination, or union
noun
coa'lition - decadence
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noun
decline,delay, a period of decline,
excessive self indulgence
'decadence - elicit
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to draw forth
verb
e'licit - expostulate
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to attempt to dissade someone from some course by earnest reasoning
verb
ex'postulate - hackneyed
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used so often as to lack freshness
'hackneyed
adjective - hiatus
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a gap
hi'atus
noun - innuendo
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a hint or reference in a derrogatory sense
noun
innu'endo - intercede
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to plead on behalf of someone else, to go between in a disagreement
inter'cede
verb - jaded
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wearied, worn out, dulled
'jaded
adjective - lurid
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causing shock, horror, sensation, lack of restraint
'lurid
adjective - meritorious
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worthy, deserving recognition or praise
meri'torious
adj - petulant
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peevish, easily irritaed and upset
adj
'petulant - prerogative
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a right or privelege
noun
pre'rogative - provincial
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pro'vincial
adj: pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind or loutlook, country, simple..
noun: a person w/ a narrow point of view, a person from the country - simulate
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to imitate
verb
'simulate - transcend
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exceed, rise above or beyond
verb
tran'scend - umbrage
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offense, shade, suspicion
noun
'umbrage - unctuous
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oily, fatty, excessivly smooth or smug, trying to hard to seem sincere
adjective
'unctuous - ameliorate
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to make better, improve
verb
a'meliorate - aplomb
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great self confidence, poise, assurance
a'plomb
noun - bombastic
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pompous or overblown in language, full of high sounding words to conceal a lack of ideas
bom'bastic
adjective - callow
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without experience, lacking sophisication, stupid
'callow
adjective - drivel
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saliva or muccus come from the mouth, foolish aimless talk, nonsense (noun)
to utter nonsese (verb)
'drivel - epitome
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a summary
noun
e'pitome - exhort
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to urge strongly
to advise earnestly
verb
ex'hort - ex officio
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by virtue of holding a certain office
"to serve ex officio as a member of the board"
adjective, adverb...
ex o'fficio - infringe
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to violate, trespass
in'fringe
verb - ingratiate
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to make oneself agreeable and thus gane a favorable acceptance by others (sometimes used in a drerogatory sense)
in'gratiate
verb - interloper
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an intruder
noun
'interloper - intrinsic
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essential, inherent, good for its own sake
adjective
in'trinsic - inveigh
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to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval
in'veigh
verb - lassitude
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lack of energy
adjective
'lassitude - millennium
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a period of 1,000 years
a period of great joy
mi'llennium
noun - occult
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noun:matters dealing with the supernatural
verb: to hide, conceal
adjective: musterious, magical, sercret
o'ccult - permeate
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to soak through, penetrate
verb
'permeate - precipitate
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verb: to fall as moisture
adj: characterized by excessive haste
noun: moisture, the product of an action in process
pre'cipitate - stringent
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strict, severe, bitter, sharp.
adjective
'stringent - surmise
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an edjucated guess
to guess
sur'mise
noun - abominate
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to have an intenste dislike or hatrid for
a'bominate
verb - acculturation
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the modification of social patterns, traits, of one grouyp to blend in with another
noun
a'cculturation - adventitious
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resulting from change rather than purpose
accidental, not essential
adjective
adven'titious - ascribe
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to assign or refer to, attribute
a'scribe
verb - circuitous
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roundabout, not direct
adjective
cir'cuitous - commiserate
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to sympathize with, have pity or sorrow, share a feeling of distress
co'mmiserate
verb - enjoin
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to direct or order in an authoritave way
en'join - expedite
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to make easier
verb
'expedite - expiate
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to make up for, to make amends
'expiate
verb - ferment
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noun: a state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence
verb: to be in or work into such a state, to produce alcohol by chemical action
'ferment or fer'ment - inadvertent
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resultring from lack of attention
accidental, by mistake
adjective
inad'vertent - nominal
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existing in name only, too small to be taken seriously
adjective
'nominal - noncommittal
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unable to take a clear position, not definite
adjective
nonco'mmittal - peculate
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to steal something that has been putten into ones trust
'peculate
verb - proclivity
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a natural inclination for something or tendency
noun
pro'clivity - sanfroid
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noun
composure or coolness
sang'froid - seditious
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resistant to lawful authority
se'ditious
adjective - tenuous
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thin, lacking clairty or sharpness, of slight importance, poorly supported
adjective
'tenuous - vitriolic
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bitter, acidic, sarcastic, highly caustic
adjective
vitri'olic - wheedle
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to use coaxing or flatterly to gain some desired end
verb
'wheedle - affable
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courteous and pleasant, easy to speak to
adjective
'affable - aggrandize
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to increase in greatness, to make appear greater
verb
a'ggrandize - amorphous
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shapless, without organization, or shape or form
adjective
a'morphous - archetype
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noun
an original model after which similar things are patterned
'archetype - aura
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noun
that which surroundds, a personal quality, a distinctive air
'aura - contraband
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noun
illegal traggic, smuggled goods
verb
illegal
'contraband - erudite
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scholarly
adjective
'erudite - gossamer
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thin, light, delicate, insubstantial
noun: a very thin light cloth
'gossamer - infer
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to find out by reasoning, to imply
in'fer
verb - inscrutable
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impossihble to see through, incapable of being understood
adjective
in'scrutable - insular
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adjective
relating to an island, narrow in outlook or experience
'insular - irrevocable
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incapable of being changed or called back
adjective
i'rrevocable - propensity
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noun: a natural inclination or bent toward
pro'pensity - querulous
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complains alot
adjective
'querulous - remonstrate
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to argue or plead with someone againts something, protest against
verb
re'monstrate - repudiate
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to disown, reject
verb
re'pudiate - resilient
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able to return to an original form, able to recover quickly
adjective
re'silient - retrench
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cut back, economize
verb
re'trench - reverberate
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to re-echo, to reflect or be reflected repeatdly
verb
re'verberate - scurrilous
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abusive, vulgar, (Especially in language)
adjective
'scurrilous - sedulous
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persistent, showing industry and determination
adjective
'sedulous - sleazy
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adjective
thin or flimsy in texture, che ap, shoddy, ethiccaly low, mean
'sleazy - addendum
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noun: an addition or supplement designed to increase correctnes
a'ddendum - amnesty
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noun :a general pardon for an offense against a government, in general, any act of forgiveness
'amnesty - autonomy
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noun: self government, politcal control
au'tonomy - axiomatic
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adjective: self evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
axio'matic - blazon
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verb: to embellish, to publish or proclaim widely
'blazon - caveat
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noun: a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
'caveat - equitable
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adjective: fair, just
'equitable - extricate
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verb: to free from entanglements or difficultie, remove with effort
'extricate - filch
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to steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
no accent marks - flout
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verb: to mock or treat with contempt
no accent marks - fractious
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adjective: tending to be troublesome, or unruly
'fractious - precept
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noun: a rule of conduct
'precept - prognosticate
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verb: to predict
prog'nosticate - salutary
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adjective: beneficial, helpful,
'salutary - scathing
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bitterly severe, causing great harm, withering
'scathing - scourge
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verb: to whip, punish
noun: a cause of suffering, a source of severe punishment
no accent marks - sepulchral
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adjective: funereal, typical of the tomb, gloomy
se'pulchral - soporific
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adjective: tending to cause sleep
noun: something that induces sleep
sopo'rific - straitlaced
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adjective: extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct, prude, puritanish
'straitlaced - transient
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adj: lasting only a short time
noun: someone who only stays a short time
'transient - unwieldy
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adjective: not easily carried, because of size or complexity
un'wieldy - vapid
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dull, uninteresting, tiresome, lacking sharpness, flavor, or force (adjective)
'vapid - anomalous
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adj: abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
a'nomalous - arbiter
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one having power to decide a matter at issue, a judge or umpire
'arbiter - aspersion
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a damaging or derogatory statement, the act of slandering
a'spersion - bizarre
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adjective: extremely strange, unusual, atypical
bi'zarre - brusque
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adjective: abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
no accent mark - cajole
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to coax, persuade thru flattery or false promises (verb)
ca'jole - castigate
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verb: to punish severely, criticize severely
'castigate - contrive
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to plan
con'trive - demagogue
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a leader who exploits popylar prejudiceds and false claims and promises in order to gain power
'demagogue - disabuse
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to free from deception or error, to set right in ideas or thinking
disa'buse - ennui
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noun: boredom
enn'ui - fetter
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noun: a chain or shackle placed on the feet, anything that confines or restraints
verb: to chain, to render helpless
'fetter - heinous
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adj: very wicked, offensive, hateful
'heinous - immutable
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adj: not subject to change .. constant
i'mmutable - insurgent
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noun: one who rebels against authority
adj: rising in revolt, refusing to aaccept authority
in'surgent - megalomania
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noun: a delusion marked by a feeling of power, far excess of reality
megalo'mania - sinecure
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noun: a job requiring little or no work, easy job
'sinecure - surreptitious
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adj: secret, stealthy, inted to escape observation, fraud
surrep'titious - transgress
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verb: to go beyond a limit, to violate a law
trans'gress - transmute
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to change from one form to another, to transform (Verb)
trans'mute - vicarious
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adj: performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced bye one person in place of another..second hand kind of
vi'carious - vouchsafe
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verb: to give or furnish condescendingly..to grant
vouch'safe