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1. Superiority of power - quantity - etc.; V. preponderate: be greater in power - weight - or importance; ADJ. preponderant
ordinance
scraps
preponderance
peruse
2. Fall sharply; fall straight down; Ex. Stock prices plummeted.
bump
flinch
recast
plummet
3. Illicit lover
graduated
paramour
incriminate
disavowal
4. (of someone) having insight; penetrating; astute
perspicacious
sphinx-like
testator
overturn
5. Knickknack; bauble; cheap jewelry
trinket
holocaust
nip
loll
6. Arise from; originate from
proverb
stem_from
milieu
halting
7. Ordinary; commonplace; neither good nor bad
solder
harping
mediocre
indisputable
8. Teaching; art of education
affinity
termination
oblivious
pedagogy
9. Accuse of or implicate in a crime; serve as evidence against; cause to seem or make guilty of a crime; Ex. incriminating evidence
incriminate
cardiologist
thrall
verge
10. Deadlock; situation in which further action is blocked
glib
stalemate
deputize
apologist
11. Ridicule; deride; imitate often in derision
mock
unwieldy
appellation
outstrip
12. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy
celibate
cherubic
jollity
rostrum
13. Related to a school; not practical or directly useful
bereaved
academic
foolhardy
predispose
14. Act or manner of using; accepted practice; way in which words are actually used
insinuate
usage
voracious
brochure
15. Small ornamental statuette(very small statue)
endorse
figurine
imposture
adage
16. Protest; remonstrance; reasoning with someone to correct or dissuade; V. expostulate
alias
expostulation
psychopathic
resound
17. One who foretells the future
resourceful
articulate
jocose
soothsayer
18. Attractive; agreeable; having a pleasing appearance
funereal
adjunct
hermetic
comely
19. Sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter
glaring
asperity
impertinent
junta
20. Dirty child in torn clothes; person wearing tattered clothes
ragamuffin
animated
rational
remunerative
21. Severe trial or affliction; difficult experience; trial(test of patience or endurance); affliction
hale
ordeal
cynosure
disdain
22. Pertaining to marriage
intuition
aphorism
anvil
marital
23. Attack with abusive language; vilify(slander)
actuate
maniacal
revile
cursory
24. Window projecting upright from roof; CF. sleeping room
authenticate
lethargic
embargo
dormer
25. Diligent; assiduous; paying attention; N. sedulity
necromancy
sedulous
rakish
outspoken
26. Representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols; puzzle in which pictures or letters stand for words; Ex. ``R U 18'' is a rebus for ``Are you 18''.
rebus
commensurate
prolixity
latitude
27. Small boat (often ship's boat)
peripatetic
dinghy
litigation
amorphous
28. Abandon; give up (by formal announcement); disown; repudiate; Ex. renounce one's claim to the property/one's religion; N. renunciation
resumption
unravel
betroth
renounce
29. Violent whirlpool; violent or tublent situation; CF. stream
noose
transpire
maelstrom
animated
30. Brave and successful act; deed or action - particularly a brave deed; CF. crossing the Atlantic ocean
unsavory
exploit
glossary
rig
31. Opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed; action made to produce a future advantage
gambit
economy
benign
runic
32. Changeable; of a quickly changing nature (as of temper); mercurial; tending to violence; evaporating rapidly; Ex. volatile character/situation in the street
elixir
volatile
importune
buffet
33. Not spacious; inconvenient
incommodious
surfeit
pronounced
plenitude
34. Something long-lasting; perennial plant; ADJ: lasting through the year or many years; lasting for a long time; enduring
stem_from
appellation
medium
perennial
35. Malleable; pliable; (of metals) easily pulled into shape; flexible; (of someone) easily influenced or controlled
ductile
metrical
reciprocal
rescind
36. Ravenous; eating large quantities of food; exceedingly eager; insatiable; Ex. voracious animal/reader
voracious
lout
resumption
contusion
37. Fringes; outer borders (as of a city); Ex. outskirts of Boston
bar
depravity
outskirts
veritable
38. Complicated situation (as in a play); painful or complex misunderstanding (as in a play); entanglement; confused mass (as of papers); V. embroil
incandescent
imbroglio
attentive
monolithic
39. Rubbing away; tending to grind down
potable
pestle
abrasive
inadvertently
40. Tiny; weak; insignificant
puny
ordinance
validate
rhapsodize
41. Venture; put in danger; risk; Ex. hazard a guess; N: possible source of danger
discombobulated
obstetrician
hazard
conjure
42. Wetland; marsh; V: flood; overwhelm; drench in with liquid
sovereignty
swamp
broach
progeny
43. Annoy; exasperate; chafe; N: skin sore caused by rubbing (as on the skin of a horse); exasperation
ascendancy
maternal
placate
gall
44. Wrong or improper name; incorrect designation
incendiary
contagion
wholesome
misnomer
45. Cold or cheerless; frigid; unlikely to be favorable; depressing
covetous
horoscope
bleak
lance
46. Disposed to revenge; vengeful; out for revenge; spiteful; intended to cause harm; malicious; Ex. vindictive streak
minuscule(miniscule)
boisterous
festive
vindictive
47. Promoting a particular point of view; biased; having an aim; designed to further a cause; Ex. tendentious rather than truth-seeking; CF. tend: move in a certain direction
regal
tautological
quorum
tendentious
48. Unavoidable
gale
proviso
inevitable
replete
49. Thousand-year period (as in the New Testament); hoped-for period of happiness and prosperity
forte
millennium
blighted
modulate
50. Seine net; net for catching fish
seine
vouchsafe
offhand
grotto
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