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abscond - Correct Answers ✅depart secretly and hide adversity - Correct Answers ✅a state of misfortune or affliction aggravate - Correct Answers ✅make worse arduous - Correct Answers ✅difficult to accomplish belie - Correct Answers ✅to contradict, to give a false impression bombast - Correct Answers ✅pompous or pretentious talk or writing castigation - Correct Answers ✅punishment; severe criticism or disapproval censure - Correct Answers ✅harsh criticism or disapproval coercive - Correct Answers ✅serving or intended to compel by force or authority condemn - Correct Answers ✅express strong disapproval of
conspire - Correct Answers ✅engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together covert - Correct Answers ✅secret or hidden cower - Correct Answers ✅To crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame denigrate - Correct Answers ✅to attack the reputation of; to speak ill of denounce - Correct Answers ✅to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful derision - Correct Answers ✅the act of deriding or treating with contempt diatribe - Correct Answers ✅a bitter and prolonged verbal attack discomfit - Correct Answers ✅cause to lose one's composure disingenuous - Correct Answers ✅not straightforward; crafty
morose - Correct Answers ✅showing a brooding ill humor obsequious - Correct Answers ✅attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery obstinate - Correct Answers ✅persist stubbornly onerous - Correct Answers ✅troubling; burdensome pedantic - Correct Answers ✅marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects perjury - Correct Answers ✅criminal offense of making false statements under oath recalcitrant - Correct Answers ✅stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority secrete - Correct Answers ✅generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids spurious - Correct Answers ✅plausible but false
tirade - Correct Answers ✅a long, angry speech, usually very critical vexation - Correct Answers ✅something or someone that causes anxiety amalgamate - Correct Answers ✅to bring or combine together or with something else assuage - Correct Answers ✅to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench bolster - Correct Answers ✅support and strengthen burgeon - Correct Answers ✅grow and flourish buttress - Correct Answers ✅(v.) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n.) a supporting structure capricious - Correct Answers ✅impulsive and unpredictable catalyst - Correct Answers ✅something that causes an important event to happen
ephemeral - Correct Answers ✅enduring a very short time eradicate - Correct Answers ✅destroy completely, as if down to the roots expel - Correct Answers ✅force to leave or move out extend - Correct Answers ✅span an interval of distance, space or time facilitate - Correct Answers ✅make easier incubation - Correct Answers ✅maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development intransigent - Correct Answers ✅not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course inundate - Correct Answers ✅fill or cover completely, usually with water lackluster - Correct Answers ✅lacking brilliance or vitality
lethargic - Correct Answers ✅deficient in alertness or activity luminous - Correct Answers ✅softly bright or radiant obviate - Correct Answers ✅prevent the occurrence of pervasive - Correct Answers ✅spreading throughout placate - Correct Answers ✅to appease, soothe, pacify plod - Correct Answers ✅walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud plummet - Correct Answers ✅drop sharply precipitate - Correct Answers ✅bring about abruptly propagate - Correct Answers ✅transmit or cause to broaden or spread prune - Correct Answers ✅weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
volatile - Correct Answers ✅liable to lead to sudden change or violence waver - Correct Answers ✅the act of pausing uncertainly aberrant - Correct Answers ✅markedly different from an accepted norm ambiguous - Correct Answers ✅having more than one possible meaning anomalous - Correct Answers ✅deviating from the general or common order or type anomaly - Correct Answers ✅deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule archaic - Correct Answers ✅so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period commensurate - Correct Answers ✅corresponding in size or degree or extent conspicuous - Correct Answers ✅obvious to the eye or mind
derivative - Correct Answers ✅unoriginal; derived from another source deviance - Correct Answers ✅a state or condition markedly different from the norm deviation - Correct Answers ✅departure or wandering away from the accepted standard discrete - Correct Answers ✅constituting a separate entity or part diffuse - Correct Answers ✅spread out digress - Correct Answers ✅wander from a direct or straight course discordant - Correct Answers ✅not in agreement or harmony disinterest - Correct Answers ✅lack of bias or involvement; impartiality; (ed) uninvolved; free from self-interest dispersed - Correct Answers ✅distributed or spread over a considerable extent
marginal - Correct Answers ✅of something or someone close to a lower limit or lower class maverick - Correct Answers ✅independent in behavior or thought mitigate - Correct Answers ✅lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of monotonous - Correct Answers ✅tediously repetitious or lacking in variety ostracism - Correct Answers ✅the act of excluding someone from society by general consent perennial - Correct Answers ✅lasting an indefinitely long time recluse - Correct Answers ✅one who lives in solitude sporadic - Correct Answers ✅recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances superfluous - Correct Answers ✅more than is needed, desired, or required
tangential - Correct Answers ✅of superficial relevance if any temper - Correct Answers ✅make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else temperate - Correct Answers ✅not extreme admonish - Correct Answers ✅to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty advocate - Correct Answers ✅speak, plead, or argue in favour of anthology - Correct Answers ✅a collection of selected literary passages apprise - Correct Answers ✅make aware of approbation - Correct Answers ✅official recognition or approval articulate - Correct Answers ✅expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
eloquent - Correct Answers ✅expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively enumerate - Correct Answers ✅determine the number or amount of equivocate - Correct Answers ✅be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information eulogy - Correct Answers ✅a formal expression of praise euphemism - Correct Answers ✅an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive exculpate - Correct Answers ✅pronounce not guilty of criminal charges extemporaneous - Correct Answers ✅with little or no preparation or forethought fawn - Correct Answers ✅try to gain favor by cringing or flattering glib - Correct Answers ✅marked by lack of intellectual depth
goad - Correct Answers ✅to drive or urge on inquisitive - Correct Answers ✅showing curiosity lucid - Correct Answers ✅easily understood; clear mollify - Correct Answers ✅make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else parody - Correct Answers ✅humorous or satirical mimicry pertinent - Correct Answers ✅having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand platitude - Correct Answers ✅a boring or unoriginal remark rescind - Correct Answers ✅to repeal, cancel rhetoric - Correct Answers ✅using language effectively to please or persuade sanction - Correct Answers ✅a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
tout - Correct Answers ✅advertize in strongly positive terms veracity - Correct Answers ✅adherence to the truth; truthfulness anesthetic - Correct Answers ✅a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations antipathy - Correct Answers ✅a feeling of intense dislike arbitrary - Correct Answers ✅based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice aversion - Correct Answers ✅a feeling of intense dislike bent - Correct Answers ✅a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way compliant - Correct Answers ✅easily influenced or imposed on condone - Correct Answers ✅excuse, overlook, or make allowances for
convention - Correct Answers ✅something regarded as a normative example defer - Correct Answers ✅submit or yield to another's wish or opinion dogma - Correct Answers ✅a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative equivocal - Correct Answers ✅open to two or more interpretations extraneous - Correct Answers ✅not essential fortuitous - Correct Answers ✅occurring by happy chance frugality - Correct Answers ✅prudence in avoiding waste illusory - Correct Answers ✅misleading, deceptive; lacking in or not based on reality indifferent - Correct Answers ✅showing no care or concern in attitude or action
