PR Cracking Voc
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- acumen
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keen, accurate judgement or insight
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alacrity
- eager and enthusiastic willingness
- anachronism
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something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
- archaic
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outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primative time
- asethetic
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appreciative of art
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axiomatic
- taken as given; posessing self evident truth
- bombast
-
self-important writing or speech
- canon
-
established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
- caustic
-
burning or stinging; causing corrosion
- cogent
- appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
- complaisance
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willingness to comply with the wishes of others
- decorum
-
polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
- demur
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to question or oppose
- didactic
-
intended to instruct or teach
- discretion
- cautious reserve in speech; abilty to make responsible decisions
- dissemble
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to disguise or conceal; to mislead
- elegy
-
mournful poem, esp one lamenting the dead
- enervate
-
to weaken
- ennui
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dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
- ephemeral
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brief, fleeting
- equivocate
- to use abiguous language with a deceptive intent
- erudite
- scholarly
- esoteric
-
intended for or understood by a small, specific group
- evanescent
-
tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
- exculpate
- to exonerate; clear of blame
- exigent
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urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
- fulminate
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to loudly attack or denounce
- grandiloquence
-
pompous speech or expression
- halcyon
- calm and peaceful
- hegemony
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the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
- hyperbole
- an exaggerted statement, often used as a figure of speech
- iconoclast
- one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
- immutable
- not capable of change
- impecunious
-
lacking funds; without money
- implacable
- not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
- inchoate
- an initial stage, not fully formed
- incipient
-
beginning to come into being or become apparent
- infelicitous
-
unfortunate; inappropriate
- ingenuous
- artless; frank; candid; lacking in sophistication
- inimical
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damaging; harmful; injurious
- insipid
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without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
- intractable
-
not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
- intransigent
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refusing to compromise
- inured
- accustomed to accepting something undesirable
- inveigle
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to obtain by deception or flattery
- magnanimity
- the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving
- obdurate
-
unyielding; hardharted; intractable
- obfuscate
-
to deliberately obscure; to make confusing
- obsequious
-
exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
- obviate
- to anticipate and make unnecessary
- occlude
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to obstruct or block
- opprobrium
-
disgrace; contempt; scorn
- paen
- song or hymn of praise or thanksgiving
- penurious
-
penny pinching, excessively thrifty; ungenerous
- penury
-
poverty; destitution
- perfidity
-
intentional breech of faith; trechery
- perspicacious
-
acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
- phlegmatic
-
calm; sluggish; unemotional
- pith
-
essential or central part
- pithy
-
precise; brief
- polemical
-
controversial; argumentative
- probity
-
adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness
- prodigal
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recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
- profligate
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excessively wasteful; reckless; extravagant -eg like 'prodigal' son
- proliferate
- to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
- prosaic
-
dull; lacking in spirit or imagination
- quixotic
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foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
- quotidian
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occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
- rarefy
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to make or become thin; less dense; to refine
- recondite
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hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
- redoubtable
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awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
- refulgent
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radiant; shiny; brilliant
- repudiate
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to refuse to have anything to do with; disown
- sanction
-
1. authoritative permission or approval
2 a penalty
- sedulous
-
diligent; persistent; hardworking
- soporific
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causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
- sordid
- characterized by filth, grime, squalor or foul
- specious
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seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausable but false
- spurious
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lacking authenticity or validity; plausible but false
- superfluous
-
exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
- supplant
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to take the place of; supercede
- surfeit
- an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess
- torpid
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lethargic; sluggish; dormant
- trenchant
-
sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
- ubiquitous
- existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
- unfeigned
-
genuine; not false or hypocritical
- untenable
- indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
- virulent
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extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
- vituperate
- to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate