Kaplan vocab words
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- ingenuous
- showing innocence or childlike simplicity
- inimical
- hostile, unfriendly
- insipid
- lacking interest or flavor
- intransigent
- uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
- irascible
- easily made angry
- laconic
- using few words
- malinger
- to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
- mollify
- to calm or make less severe
- obsequious
- overly submissive and eager to please
- obviate
- to prevent, to make unnecessary
- occlude
- to stop up; to prevent the passage of
- onerous
- troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
- opprobrium
- public disgrace
- ostentation
- excessive showiness
- paragon
- model of excellence or perfection
- pendant
- someone who shows off learning
- perfidious
- willing to betray one's trust
- perfunctory
- done in a routine way; indifferent
- precipitate
- to throw violently or bring about abruptly; without diliberating
- prevaricate
- to lie or deviate from truth
- prodigal
- lavish, wasteful
- propitiate
- to conciliate; to appease
- quiescent
- motionless
- rarefy
- to make thinner or sparser
- repudiate
- to reject the validity of
- specious
- deceptively attractive; seemingly attractive, but not
- stolid
- unemotional; lacking sensitivity
- sublime
- lofty or grand
- tacit
- done without using words
- taciturn
- silent, not talkative
- torpor
- extreme mental and physical sluggishness