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Question		Answer
Abeyance start learning		temporary suppression or suspension
Abjure start learning		to reject; abandon formally
Abstemious start learning		moderate in appetite
Accretion start learning		growth in size or amount
Alacrity start learning		cheerful willingness; eagerness; speed
Anodyne start learning		something that calms or soothes pain
Antediluvian start learning		prehistoric
Apogee start learning		the point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited
Apothegm start learning		a terse, witty saying
Apposite start learning		strikingly appropriate and relevant
Approbation start learning		praise; approval
Apropos start learning		relevant
Arabesque start learning		ornate design featuring intertwined curves
Argot start learning		specialized vocabulary used by a group
Asperity start learning		severity, hardness, irritability
Aspersion start learning		slander; false rumor
Assiduous working start learning		diligent, hard
Astringent start learning		harsh; severe
Atavism start learning		in biology, the reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after generations of absence; reappearance of a trait after a period of absence
Avocation start learning		secondary occupation
Avuncular start learning		like an uncle, benevolent / tolerant
Bacchanalian start learning		pertaining to riotous or drunken festivity; pertaining to revelry
Bedizen start learning		dress in a vulgar or showy manner
Blandishment start learning		flattery
Boorish start learning		rude; insensitive
Bucolic start learning		rustic
Burnish start learning		to polish
Cadge start learning		to beg; sponge
Calumny start learning		false and malicious accusation; slander
Canard start learning		false; deliberately misleading story
Canon start learning		an established principle’ a basis or standard for judgement; a group of literary works
Cant start learning		insincere talk; language of a particular group
Captious finding; intended to entrap start learning		fault
Carping start learning		to find fault; to complain
Caucus start learning		a smaller group within an organization
Centrifugal start learning		moving away from the center
Centripetal start learning		moving or directed to a center
Chicanery start learning		trickery; fraud
Churlish start learning		rude
Cloister start learning		to confine; seclude
Coda start learning		concluding part of a literary or musical composition; something that summarizes and concludes
Codify start learning		to systematize
Compendium start learning		brief; comprehensive summary
Complaisant start learning		overly polite; willing to please
Concomitant start learning		existing concurrently
Consecrate start learning		declare sacred
Contumacious start learning		disobedient; rebellious
Convivial start learning		sociable
Coquette start learning		woman who flirts
Cozen start learning		to mislead by fraud; deceive
Credence start learning		acceptance of something as true
Credo start learning		statement of belief or principle
Dearth start learning		scarcity
Demotic start learning		pertaining to people
Demur start learning		to express doubt
Denizen start learning		an inhabitant; a regular vistor
Denouement start learning		outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature
Desuetude start learning		state of disuse
Desultory start learning		random; disconnected; rambling
Diaphanous textured; vague start learning		transparent; fine
Dirge start learning		funeral hymn
Discomfit start learning		make uneasy
Disparate start learning		varied; dissimilar
Dissolution start learning		disintegration; debauchery
Distrait start learning		inattentive; preoccupied
Divest start learning		to strip; deprive; rid
Doctrinaire start learning		relating to a person who cannot compromise about points of a theory or doctrine; dogmatic
Doggerel start learning		poor verse
Dross start learning		waste; worthless matter; trivial matter
Effervescence start learning		state of high spirits or liveliness
Effete start learning		depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent
Effrontery start learning		shameless boldness; presumptuousness
Elysian start learning		blissful; delightful
Elegy start learning		poem or song expressing lamentation
Emollient start learning		soothing; mollifying
Encomium start learning		a formal expression of praise
Enervate start learning		to weaken
Engender start learning		to cause; produce
Equable start learning		steady; unvarying; serene
Essay start learning		to make an attempt; subject to a test
Etiology start learning		causes or origins
Execrable start learning		detestable; abhorrent
Expatiate start learning		to speak or write at length
Expatriate start learning		to send into exile
Expiate start learning		to atone for
Explicate start learning		to explain; clarify; interpret
Extemporaneous start learning		unrehearsed
Extirpate start learning		to root up; to destroy
Factotum start learning		a person who dose all sorts of work; a handyman
Fallow start learning		plowed but not sowed; uncultivated
Fatuous satisfied start learning		foolishly self
Felicitous chosen start learning		suitably expressed; appropriate; well
Fiat start learning		arbitrary order; authorization
Fissure start learning		crevice
Foment start learning		to excite; to arouse
Forbearance start learning		patience
Fracas start learning		loud quarrel; brawl
Fresco start learning		a painting done on plaster
Frieze start learning		an ornamental band on a wall
Froward start learning		stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient
Fulminate start learning		to attack loudly; to denounce
Fulsome start learning		so excessive as to be disgusting
Gainsay start learning		to deny; dispute; oppose
Gambol start learning		to frolic;
Garrulous start learning		talkative
Gauche start learning		course and uncouth; clumsy
Grandiloquent start learning		pompous; bombastic
Grouse start learning		to complain
Halcyon start learning		calm and peaceful; happy;
Hermetic start learning		tightly sealed; magical
Hirsute start learning		covered with hair
Homily start learning		sermon; platitude
Iconoclastic start learning		attacking cherished traditions
Igneous start learning		produced by fire; volcanic
Imbroglio start learning		complicated situation; an entanglement
Impecunious start learning		poor
Imprecation start learning		curse
Impute start learning		to relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault to; assign as a characteristic
Inchoate start learning		imperfectly formed or formulated
Indigence start learning		poverty
Indolent start learning		habitually lazy
Ineluctable start learning		not to be avoided or escaped
Insensible start learning		unconscious, unresponsive
Insouciant start learning		indifferent; lacking concern or care
Insularity mindedness; isolation start learning		narrow
Insuperable start learning		insurmountable; unconquerable
Interdict start learning		to forbid; prohibit
Internecine start learning		deadly to both sides
Interpolate start learning		to insert; change by adding new material
Interregnum start learning		interval between reigns; gap in continuity
Intractable start learning		not easily managed
Inured start learning		hardened; accustomed; used to
Invective start learning		verbal abuse
Inveigh start learning		to disapprove; protest vehemently
Inveigle start learning		to win over by flattery or coaxing
Inveterate standing; deeply rooted start learning		confirmed; long
Invidious start learning		likely to provoke ill will; offensive
Irascible start learning		easily angered
Itinerant start learning		wandering from place to place; unsettled
Jocose start learning		fond of joking; jocular; playful
Junta start learning		group of people united by political intrigue
Labile start learning		likely to change
Laconic start learning		using few words
Lambaste start learning		thrash verbally or physically
Lassitude start learning		lethargy
Libertine start learning		one without moral restraint
Lilliputian start learning		extremely small
Limn start learning		to draw, describe
Limpid start learning		clear, transparent
Literati start learning		scholarly or learned persons
Lucre start learning		money or profits
Machiavellian dealing start learning		crafty; double
Malinger start learning		feign illness to escape duty
Maverick start learning		dissenter
Mendicant start learning		beggar
Meretricious start learning		gaudy; plausible but false; specious
Metaphysics start learning		branch of philosophy investigating the ultimate nature of reality
Mettle start learning		courage, endurance
Militate start learning		to work against
Minatory start learning		threatening; menacing
Miscellany start learning		mixture of writings on various subjects
Multifarious start learning		diverse
Neophyte start learning		novice, beginner
Nexus start learning		means of connection; a center; a connected group
Nostrum start learning		medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness
Nugatory start learning		trifling, invalid
Obdurate start learning		stubborn
Obsequy start learning		funeral ceremony
Obviate start learning		to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent
Officious start learning		too helpful; meddlesome
Opprobrium start learning		disgrace; contempt
Ostentatious start learning		showy; pretentious
Overweening start learning		presumptuous; arrogant; overbearing
Paean start learning		song of joy or triumph
Panegryic start learning		elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise
Patois start learning		regional dialect; jargon
Pellucid start learning		transparent; easily understood
Penury start learning		extreme poverty
Peregrination start learning		wandering from place to place
Peremptory start learning		imperative; leaving no choice
Perennial start learning		present throughout the years, persistent
Perfidious start learning		disloyal, untrustworthy
Perigree start learning		point in an orbit that is closest to the Earth
Phlegmatic start learning		calm in temperament; sluggish
Piquant start learning		appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent
Pique start learning		fleeting feeling of hurt pride
Plumb start learning		to examine deeply; to determine the depth
Plutocracy start learning		government of the wealthy
Prate start learning		to talk idly
Precipitate start learning		rash; hasty; sudden
Prehensile start learning		capable of grasping
Presage start learning		to foretell; indicate in advance
Prevaricate start learning		to quibble; evade the truth
Probity mindedness start learning		honesty; high
Propitiate start learning		to win over; appease
Proscribe start learning		to condemn
Provident start learning		providing for future needs; frugal
Puissant start learning		powerful
Punctilious start learning		careful in observing rules of behavior or ceremony
Pusillanimous start learning		cowardly
Quagmire start learning		marsh; difficult situation
Quail start learning		to cower, lose heart
Quorum start learning		number of members necessary to conduct a meeting
Raconteur start learning		witty, skillful storyteller
Raiment start learning		clothing
Rebus start learning		puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words
Recalcitrant start learning		resisting control or authority
Recondite start learning		abstruse; profound
Redoubtable start learning		formidable; arousing fear or respect
Refractory start learning		stubborn; unmanageable
Refulgent start learning		brightly shining; resplendent
Remonstrate start learning		to object or protest
Renege start learning		to go back on one’s word
Repine start learning		to fret; complain
Riposte start learning		a retaliatory action or retort
Rococo start learning		excessively ornate (style of architecture in 18th century Europe)
Salacious start learning		lascivious; lustful
Salubrious start learning		healthful
Salutary start learning		favorable to health; expecting an improvement
Sartorial start learning		pertaining to tailors
Saturnine start learning		gloomy
Sedition start learning		behavior prompting rebellion
Sedulous start learning		diligent
Servile start learning		obedient
Sextant start learning		navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude
Sidereal start learning		relating to the stars
Simian like, relating to the apes start learning		ape
Sinecure paying job or office that requires little work start learning		well
Solicitous start learning		concerned; attentive; eager
Spendthrift start learning		a person who spends money recklessly
Stentorian start learning		extremely loud
Stricture start learning		something that restrains; negative criticism
Stultify start learning		to impair or reduce to uselessness
Stygian start learning		dark and gloomy; hellish
Subsume start learning		to include / incorporate
Succor start learning		relief; help in time of distress
Sundry start learning		various
Supine start learning		lying on the back; marked by lethargy
Suppliant start learning		beseeching
Supposition start learning		the act of assuming to be true or real
Sylvan start learning		relating to the woods or the forest
Tautology start learning		unnecessary repetition
Toady start learning		a flatterer
Travail start learning		work, especially arduous work
Truculence start learning		aggressiveness, ferocity
Tumid start learning		swollen; distended
Turbid start learning		muddy; opaque
Tutelary start learning		serving as a guardian or protector
Usury start learning		practice of lending money at exorbitant rates
Vacillate start learning		to waver; oscillate
Valedictory start learning		pertaining to a farewell
Variegated start learning		varied; marked with different colors
Vaunt start learning		to boast; brag
Venal start learning		bribable; mercenary
Veracious start learning		truthful; accurate
Vitiate start learning		to impair the quality of; make inoperative
Vituperative start learning		using or containing harsh; abusive censure
Welter start learning		to wallow or roll; be in turmoil

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