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A list of vocabulary words and their definitions. It can be used as a study material for students who want to improve their vocabulary skills. suitable for high school and university students who are preparing for exams that require knowledge of advanced vocabulary words. The list includes words such as abjure, acrid, antediluvian, and bellicose, among others. Each word is followed by its definition and correct usage in a sentence. a useful resource for students who want to expand their vocabulary and improve their writing and speaking skills.
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abet - correct answer is; to aid, help, encourage abjure - correct answer is; to renounce, to give something up abstemious - correct answer is; sparing in consumption of especially food and drink accede - correct answer is; to agree to acquiesce - correct answer is; to accept without protest; to agree or submit acrid - correct answer is; harsh or corrosive in tone, harsh in taste or odor; sharp in manner or temper adamant - correct answer is; hard, stubborn affable - correct answer is; courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to agile - correct answer is; nimble, quick alleviate - correct answer is; to make easier aloof - correct answer is; remote in manner ambiguous - correct answer is; having more than one possible meaning ameliorate - correct answer is; to make easier antediluvian - correct answer is; a very old (or old fashioned) person antithesis - correct answer is; the opposite apex - correct answer is; the highest point (of something) apocryphal - correct answer is; doubtful in authenticity ardor - correct answer is; passion assuage - correct answer is; to make easier astute - correct answer is; marked by practical hardheaded intelligence autocrat - correct answer is; a cruel and oppressive dictator avuncular - correct answer is; like an uncle in kindness or indulgence bellicose - correct answer is; warlike benefactor - correct answer is; one who does good to others benighted - correct answer is; lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture benign - correct answer is; good blatant - correct answer is; conspicuously and offensively loud blithe - correct answer is; happy boon - correct answer is; gift breach - correct answer is; (n.) a break; (v.) to break cacophony - correct answer is; loud confusing disagreeable sounds candid - correct answer is; openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness capitulate - correct answer is; surrender under agreed conditions chaff - correct answer is; material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds circumlocution - correct answer is; talking in a roundabout way
cogent - correct answer is; powerfully persuasive cogitate - correct answer is; use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments cognizant - correct answer is; (usually followed by 'of') having knowledge or understanding colloquial - correct answer is; characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation concur - correct answer is; to agree console - correct answer is; to comfort copious - correct answer is; affording an abundant supply corporeal - correct answer is; affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit counterfeit - correct answer is; a copy that is represented as the original credulous - correct answer is; willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible. defer - correct answer is; submit or yield to another's wish or opinion deplete - correct answer is; use up (resources or materials) deter - correct answer is; turn away from by persuasion dexterous - correct answer is; skillful in physical movements dilemma - correct answer is; state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options diminutive - correct answer is; small discreet - correct answer is; showing tact, respect, and restraint in speech or behavior discrete - correct answer is; separate; unconnected divulge - correct answer is; to tell dormant - correct answer is; not active but capable of becoming active dross - correct answer is; worthless material that should be removed edible - correct answer is; any substance that can be used as food egress - correct answer is; an exit elegy - correct answer is; a mournful poem engender - correct answer is; to bring forth enmity - correct answer is; absolute hatred equivocate - correct answer is; to lie using ambiguous language evoke - correct answer is; to call forth extinct - correct answer is; no longer in existence facile - correct answer is; easily done or attained; superficial; ready, fluent; easily shown but not sincerely felt fallacy - correct answer is; (n.) a false notion or belief; an error in thinking feign - correct answer is; to pretend frugal - correct answer is; avoiding waste fulsome - correct answer is; unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech garullous - correct answer is; talkative gregarious - correct answer is; seeking and enjoying the company of others guile - correct answer is; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception gullible - correct answer is; easily tricked because of being too trusting
pathos - correct answer is; a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) perfidious - correct answer is; tending to betray peripatetic - correct answer is; walking pernicious - correct answer is; extremely harmful petty - correct answer is; contemptibly narrow in outlook pied - correct answer is; having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly pique - correct answer is; anger plea - correct answer is; a humble request for help from someone in authority potent - correct answer is; powerful precocious - correct answer is; appearing or developing early prim - correct answer is; dress primly protean - correct answer is; taking on different forms prudent - correct answer is; showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving prudent silence pugnacious - correct answer is; ready and able to resort to force or violence query - correct answer is; an instance of questioning rapacious - correct answer is; excessively greedy and grasping raze - correct answer is; to tear down redoubtable - correct answer is; intimidating regicide - correct answer is; the act of killing a king repugnant - correct answer is; offensive ruminate - correct answer is; to turn over in your mind (literally to chew cud) sage - correct answer is; wise sanguine - correct answer is; inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life serendipity - correct answer is; good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries shrewd - correct answer is; marked by practical hardheaded intelligence smite - correct answer is; to strike; to hit solace - correct answer is; the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment soporific - correct answer is; something that puts you to sleep squalid - correct answer is; foul and run-down and repulsive stealthy - correct answer is; marked by quiet and caution and secrecy submerge - correct answer is; fill or cover completely, usually with water subtle - correct answer is; be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind taciturn - correct answer is; habitually reserved and uncommunicative tenacious - correct answer is; persistent, stubborn torpid - correct answer is; slow and apathetic transient - correct answer is; enduring a very short time travail - correct answer is; hard work trepidation - correct answer is; a feeling of alarm or dread translucent - correct answer is; Semitransparent ubiquitous - correct answer is; being present everywhere at once
unctuous - correct answer is; (adj.) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable usurp - correct answer is; seize and take control without authority and possibly with force valor - correct answer is; courage veneer - correct answer is; thin covering veracity - correct answer is; truthfulness verbose - correct answer is; using or containing too many words vex - correct answer is; irritate, annoy visage - correct answer is; the appearance conveyed by a person's face vivify - correct answer is; give new life or energy to wan - correct answer is; pale wane - correct answer is; to decrease in size (along with wax, often used when describing the moon) wax - correct answer is; to increase in size zealot - correct answer is; a fervent and even militant proponent of something zenith - correct answer is; the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected zephyr - correct answer is; a slight wind (usually refreshing)