Kaplan vocab 2
Terms
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- aggrandize
- increase in power
- ameliorate
- to make better
- attenuate
- reduce in force or degree
- austere
- severe or stern in appearance
- caustic
- biting in wit
- chauvinist
- prejudiced to own group
- dessiccate
- dry out thoroughly
- desultory
- jumping from one thing to another
- diatribe
- abusive, condemnatory speech
- dilatory
- intended to delay
- dirge
- funeral hymn
- disabuse
- to set right
- dissemble
- to present a false appearance
- dogmatic
- dictorial in opinions
- eclectic
- selecting from/ made from many sources
- elegy
- a sorrowful poem or speech
- enervate
- to reduce in strength
- engender
- to produce, cause, bring about
- erudite
- learned, scholarly
- estimable
- admirable
- exculpate
- to clear from blame
- exigent
- urgent, requiring immediate action
- fawn
- to grovel
- florid
- excessively decorated
- foment
- to arouse or incite
- garrulous
- tending to talk a lot
- impetuous
- quick to act without thinking
- inchoate
- not fully formed; disorganized