English (H) Exam
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- egregious
- conspicuous
- equivocate
- to speak or act in a way that allows for more then one interpretation
- evanescent
- vanishing, soon passing away
- irresolute
- unable to make up one's mind
- nebulous
- cloud like
- novice
- one who is just s beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience
- penury
- extremely poor
- pretentious
- done for show
- recapitulate
- to review a series of facts
- resuscitate
- to revive
- slovenly
- untidy, dirty, careless
- supposition
- something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence
- torpid
- inactive, sluggish
- accrue
- to grow or accumulate over time
- annotation
- a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially in literary work
- Acrimonious
- stinging, bitter in temper or tone
- Bovine
- resembling a cow or ox; sluggish or unresponsive
- Consternation
- dismay, confusion
- Corpulent
- fat; having a large, bulky body
- Disavow
- to deny responsibility for or connection with
- Dispassionate
- impartial; calm free from emotion
- Dissension
- disagreement
- Dissipate
- to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; spend foolishly
- Expurgate
- to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text
- Gauntlet
- an armored or protective glove; a challenge
- Hypothetical
- based on an assumption or guess
- Ignoble
- mean
- Impugn
- to call into question
- Intemperate
- immoderate, lacking in self-control
- Odium
- hatred
- Perfidy
- faithlessness
- Relegate
- to place in a lower position
- Squeamish
- inclined to nausea
- Subservient
- subordinate (lower) in role or capacity
- Susceptible
- open to;easily influenced
- Abate
- to make less in amount, degree, etc
- Adulation
- praise or flattery that is excessive
- Anathema
- an object of intense dislike
- Astute
- shrewd, crafty
- Avarice
- a greedy desire, particularly for wealth
- Culpable
- deserving blame
- Dilatory
- tending to delay or procrastinate
- bedlam
- a state or scene of uproar and confusion
- covert
- hidden, disguised
- debonair
- pleasant, smooth or polished in appearance
- dun
- to demand insistently especially in a debt, drab, dark, dull
- efficacious
- effective producing results
- equanimity
- calmness
- fortuitous
- accidental, by happy chance =]
- gist
- the essential part
- gratuitous
- freely given
- imperious
- overbearing
- invective
- a strong denunciation or condemnation
- motley
- showing great variety
- munificent
- extremely generous
- procrastinate
- to delay, put off till later
- provocative
- tending to produce a strong feeling or response, arousing desire or appetite
- recondite
- exceeding ordinary knowledge
- reprobate
- a depraved vicious, or unprincipled person; to disapprove or condemn
- sedentary
- characterized by or calling for continued sitting, remaining in one place
- abstemious
- moderate
- censurable
- deserving of blame or correction
- contingent
- likely but not certain to happen
- corroborate
- to confirm
- denizen
- citizen, resident, inhabitant
- discursive
- passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another
- disseminate
- to scatter to spread widely
- dowdy
- poorly dressed, shabby
- florid
- highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate
- foist
- to impose by fraud
- gauche
- awkward
- heresy
- opinion different from accepted belief
- inculcate
- to impress on mind by repetition
- palpable
- capable of being touched or felt
- perceptive
- having sympathetic insight or understanding
- pernicious
- extremely harmful
- salient
- leaping... most noticeable or important
- satiate
- to satisfy completely
- specious
- deceptive
- absolve
- to clear from blame
- caricature
- a representation (especially in a drawing) in which subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated
- clangor
- a loud ringing sound
- contiguous
- side by side
- cupidity
- an eager desire for something
- deleterious
- harmful
- enhance
- to raise to a higher degree
- enthrall
- to captivate
- extenuate
- to lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses
- implicit
- implied or understood though unexpressed
- incisive
- sharp, keen
- ostentatious
- showy
- paragon
- model of excellence or perfection
- paraphrase
- to restate in other words
- politic
- prudent
- prosaic
- dull
- redundant
- extra, excess, more then is needed, wordy
- sanctimonious
- making a show of virtue or righteousness
- scintillating
- sparkling, exceptionally brilliant
- abet
- to encourage
- aver
- to affirm
- blatant
- noisy in a coarse offensive way
- broach
- to bring up or begin to talk about
- buttress
- to support
- carousal
- noisy revelry
- collate
- to compare critically in order to note difference
- connoisseur
- an expert
- disconsolate
- deeply unhappy or dejected
- encumber
- to weigh down or burden
- foment
- to promote trouble or rebellion
- grisly
- frightful, horrible, ghastly
- herculean
- characterized by great strength
- impassive
- showing no feeling or emotion
- inauspicious
- unfavorable
- incontrovertible
- unquestionable
- nonplussed
- puzzled
- opportune
- suitable or convenient
- prolific
- abundantly productive
- rejoinder
- a reply to a reply
- amenable
- willing to follow advice or authority
- berate
- to scold sharply
- carnage
- large-scale slaughter
- credulous
- too ready too believe
- criterion
- a rule, test, standard
- deplete
- to use up as of spending or consumption
- winsome
- charming, attractive
- expatiate
- to expand on
- extraneous
- coming from the outside
- inception
- the beginning
- infirmity
- a weakness or ailment
- jejune
- lacking in nutritive value, juvenile
- obdurate
- stubborn
- potpourri
- a collection of diverse miscellaneous items
- precocious
- showing unusually early development
- sadistic
- delighting in cruelty
- sententious
- self righteous
- supplicate
- to beg
- surfeit
- an excess or overindulgence
- tortuous
- winding
- turgid
- swollen, bloated
- admant
- firm in purpose or opinion
- brouhaha
- a confused hodgepodge of sounds
- bulwark
- a strong defense
- choleric
- easily made angry
- cloy
- to spoil or destroy an appetite by too much indulgence
- curtail
- to cut short
- deference
- courteous yielding to the wishes and ideas of another person
- definitive
- conclusive
- demeanor
- the way the person behaves
- enigmatic
- puzzling
- impromptu
- without preparation
- mawkish
- excessively sentimental
- mollify
- to soften
- onus
- heavy or burdensome something
- presentiment
- a vague sense of approaching misfortune
- profligate
- given over to dissipation and self-indulgence
- remit
- to send or hand in
- requisite
- needed
- sartorial
- of or pertaining to a tailor and his work
- thwart
- oppose successfully