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Vinay Prep -G 10-12

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  1. abrogate
    revoke formally
  2. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  3. ambient
    completely enveloping
  4. askance
    with suspicion or disapproval
  5. asperity
    harshness of manner
  6. attenuate
    become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
  7. benign
    kind in disposition or manner
  8. burnish
    polish and make shiny
  9. cabal
    a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue
  10. cavil
    raise trivial objections
  11. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  12. concatenation
    the act of linking together as in a series or chain
  13. concomitant
    following or accompanying as a consequence
  14. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  15. decimate
    kill in large numbers
  16. defunct
    no longer in force or use; inactive
  17. delectable
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  18. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  19. desuetude
    a state of inactivity or disuse
  20. detritus
    loose material that is worn away from rocks
  21. discomfit
    cause to lose one's composure
  22. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  23. eclectic
    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
  24. emanate
    give out, as breath or an odor
  25. espouse
    choose and follow a theory, idea, policy, etc.
  26. fetish
    sexual desire in which gratification depends on some object
  27. flaccid
    drooping without elasticity
  28. foible
    a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
  29. forgo
    do without or cease to hold or adhere to
  30. fraught
    filled with or attended with
  31. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  32. hapless
    unfortunate and deserving pity
  33. impeccable
    without error or flaw
  34. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  35. importune
    beg persistently and urgently
  36. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  37. interpolate
    insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
  38. inure
    cause to accept or become hardened to
  39. irreparable
    impossible to rectify or amend
  40. laconic
    brief and to the point
  41. languish
    become feeble
  42. luminous
    softly bright or radiant
  43. mendacious
    given to lying
  44. moribund
    being on the point of death
  45. nadir
    the lowest point of anything
  46. necromancer
    one who practices magic or sorcery
  47. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  48. obtuse
    of an angle, between 90 and 180 degrees
  49. omnipresent
    existing everywhere at once
  50. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
  51. oscillate
    move or swing from side to side regularly
  52. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  53. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  54. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  55. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  56. rebuff
    a deliberate discourteous act
  57. reconnoiter
    explore, often with a goal of finding something or somebody
  58. requite
    make repayment for or return something
  59. rife
    excessively abundant
  60. rudiments
    a statement of fundamental facts or principles
  61. sequester
    keep away from others
  62. shambles
    a condition of great disorder
  63. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  64. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  65. unregenerate
    not reformed morally or spiritually
  66. winnow
    the act of separating grain from chaff
Created on 一月 20, 2014 (updated 一月 20, 2014)

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