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Vocabulary Review

Published on Nov 25, 2015

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VOCABULARY

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DIVULGE

  • Verb
  • Reveal,tell
  • Keep,detain
  • The boy divulge his friends secret that she like this boy.

ABET

  • Verb
  • Impede, dissude
  • Promote, incite
  • To assist or encourage
  • Jim refused to abet his son to get a car.
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DOGMATIC

  • Adjective
  • Arrogant,stubborn
  • Open-minded
  • The professor's dogmatic approach, students are afraid to ask questions.

INSIPID

  • Adjective
  • Flat, lifeless
  • Challenging
  • The man found accountant classes to be very insipid.
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EXTRANEOUS

  • Adjective
  • Irrelevant
  • Essential
  • The professor felt that the extraneous paragraph was very detracted from more important info
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COERCE

  • Verb
  • Compel
  • Encourage
  • Jerry wanted to play basket ball, but his dad wanted him to play football
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JAUNDICED

  • Adjective
  • Skeptical,cynical
  • Believing,trusting
  • Gabe had a jaundiced view of Iraq after losing his wife in the gulf war.
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METICULOUS

  • Adjective
  • Fastidious
  • Sloppy
  • The doctor was meticulous while preforming surgery
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TEMERITY

  • Noun
  • Audacity
  • Prudence
  • Bret had the temerity to jump into a lake full alligators.
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GREGARIOUS

  • Adjective
  • Genial,friendly
  • Reclusive
  • Raji went from being gregarious to being antisocial.
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HERESY

  • Noun
  • Belief.
  • Orthodoxy
  • The man is heresy about his beliefs
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DOCILE

  • Adjective
  • Manageable.
  • Willful
  • The dog was very docile
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LIBATION

  • Noun
  • Intoxicant
  • Non alcoholic
  • The libation mother was driving a lot during the party
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ANATHEMA

  • Noun
  • Detestation
  • Beloved,praised
  • Cannibalism is anathema to almost every society on the planet
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BANTER

  • Noun
  • Joshing,badinage
  • Vituperation
  • Ruth enjoyed listening to the banter of her husband
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CASTIGATE

  • Verb
  • Criticize,scold
  • Praise
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GAUCHE

  • Adjective
  • Awkward,tactless
  • Graceful
  • Some people are gauche because they eat pizza with forks.
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IGNOMINY

  • Noun
  • Public shame
  • Renown
  • The dog was ignominies when she got into the trash
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MOTLEY

  • Adjective
  • Varied
  • Uniform
  • The bear was made of many motley part of cloth.

EMACIATED

  • Adjective
  • Withered
  • Plump, fattened
  • The dog was emancipated because the owners did not feed her.
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AVARICE

  • Noun
  • Greed, desire for wealth
  • Largesse
  • He became a doctor to appease his avarice not to save lives
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FURTIVE

  • Adjective
  • Stealthy,sneaky
  • Overt
  • The furtive ninja was sneaking around the courtyard of the palace.

BACCHANALIAN

  • Adjective
  • Wild, drunken
  • Calm,collected
  • The child was very bacchanalian after eating all of that sugar.
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EXTRADITE

  • Verb
  • Deport
  • Keep
  • Jason Foxwoods was extradited for being a suspect in a huge crime.

COPIOUS

  • Adjective
  • Profuse
  • Sparse
  • The is a copious amount of blue bonnets in the prairie.
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IRASCIBLE

  • Adjective
  • Irritable,Ill- tempered
  • Easygoing
  • The man irascible when his wife died.
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MERCENARY

  • Noun
  • Hired gun
  • Volunteer
  • The mercenary was very dangerous while doing his mission.
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BASTION

  • Noun
  • Stronghold
  • Weak
  • The fort was build with Kevlar reinforced walls to protect the people inside.

JETTISON

  • Noun
  • Deploy
  • Retain
  • The passengers jettisoned all the cargo off of the plane to make it lighter.
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OSTRACIZE

  • Verb
  • Exile
  • Accept
  • The boy was ostracized from the group because he was different.