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Post-Graduate
06/15/2009
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Abscond
 Definition
Leave secretly
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Aggrandize
 Definition
Increase in power
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Ameliorate
 Definition
Improve
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Anachronism
 Definition
Out of place or time
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Antipathy
 Definition
Extreme dislike
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Ardor
 Definition
Intense feelings of passion
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Attenuate
 Definition
Decrease in force
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Austere
 Definition
Stern in appearance, undecorated
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Bombastic
 Definition
Pompous in speech and manner
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Cacophony
 Definition
Sharp, jarring sound
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Candid
 Definition
Honest in speech
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Capricious
 Definition
changing one's mind quickly and often
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Crescendo
 Definition
increasing in volume or force
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Deference
 Definition
respect or courtesy
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Desiccate
 Definition
dry out thoroughly
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Desultory
 Definition
jumping from one thing to another, disconnected
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Diffident
 Definition
Lacking in self-confidence
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Dilatory
 Definition
intending to delay
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Dilettante
 Definition
Someone with an amateur interest in a topic
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Disabuse
 Definition
Set right
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Dissemble
 Definition
Present a false appearance
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Enervate
 Definition
reduce in strength
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Ephemeral
 Definition
Temporary
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Equivocate
 Definition
Use expressions of double meaning in order to confuse
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Erudite
 Definition
Learned, Scholarly
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Esoteric
 Definition
Known by few
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Estimable
 Definition
Admirable
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Euphamism
 Definition
Using a less offensive word to replace a more offensive one
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Exculpate
 Definition
Remove from blame
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Exigent
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Urgent
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Fervid
 Definition
Full of intense passion
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Foment
 Definition
Incite, arouse
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Garrulous
 Definition
Tends to be extremely talkative
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Impervious
 Definition
Impossible to penetrate
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Impetuous
 Definition
Quick to act without thinking
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Inchoate
 Definition
Not fully formed
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Ingenouous
 Definition
Childlike in simplicity
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Inimical
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Hostile
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Insipid
 Definition
Tasteless, lacking interest
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Intransigent
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Unwilling to compromise
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Irascible
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Easily angered
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Laconic
 Definition
Using few words
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Malinger
 Definition
Feign illness to avoid responsibility
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Mitigate
 Definition
Lessen, soften
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Mollify
 Definition
Calm, make less severe
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Obdurate
 Definition
Resistent to persuasion
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Obsequious
 Definition
Overly submissive, eager to please
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Obsequious
 Definition
Overly submissive, eager to please
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Obsequious
 Definition
Overly submissive, eager to please
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Obviate
 Definition
Make unneccesary, prevent
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Opprobium
 Definition
Public disgrace
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Pedantic
 Definition
One who shows off thier learning
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Perfidious
 Definition
Willing to betray one's trust
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Perfunctory
 Definition
Done in a routine way, Indifferent
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Permeate
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Penetrate
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Plastic
 Definition
Able to be molded
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Precipitate
 Definition
Throw violently, Bring about abruptly, Lacking Deliberation
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Prevaricate
 Definition
Lie, deviate from the truth
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Prodigal
 Definition
Lavish, Wasteful
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Proliferate
 Definition
Increase in number quickly
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Propitiate
 Definition
Concilate, appease
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Pungent
 Definition
Sharp, irritating to the senses
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Quiescent
 Definition
Motionless
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Rarefy
 Definition
Make thinner or sparser
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Reticent
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Silent, Reserved
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Rhetoric
 Definition
Effective writing or speaking
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Soporific
 Definition
Causing sleep of lethargy
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Specious
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Deceptively attractive. seemingly plausible but fallacious
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Stolid
 Definition
Unemotional, lacking sensitivity
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Sublime
 Definition
Lofty or grand
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Tacit
 Definition
Dome without using words
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Taciturn
 Definition
Silent, not talkative
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Torpor
 Definition
Exreme mental or physical sluggishness
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Venerate
 Definition
Respect Deeply
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Whimsical
 Definition
Acting in a fanciful manner, unpredictable
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Repudiate
 Definition
Reject the validity of
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Aestheitic
 Definition
Concerning the appreciation of beauty
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Assuage
 Definition
To make something unpleasant less severe
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Audacious
 Definition
Fearliss, Daring
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Catalyst
 Definition
Something that brings about change in something else
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Condone
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Overlook
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Convoluted
 Definition
Intricate, Complicated
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Credulous
 Definition
Too trusting, guillible
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Dissonance
 Definition
Disagreeable combination
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Equivocal
 Definition
Undecided, Trying to decieve
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Plethora
 Definition
Excess
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