Definitions
to flee
a. abscond
b. delineate
c. abdicate
d. sit
a. abscond
elegy
a poem of reflection, typically a lament for the dead
The ______ aim of the visit was to gather data on climate change
a. reputable
b. ostensible
c. detritus
d. mawkish
b. ostensible
She was ______ to the point of being reckless.
a. imperious
b. impertinent
c. impetuous
d. impish
c. impetuous
outcast
reject
undesirable
pariah
a large fire
a. fumigate
b. gastric
c. conflagration
d. corroborator
c. conflagration
veracity
n. truth or accuracy
She faces the _____ task of informing her parents of the truth.
a. onerous
b. negligible
c. licentious
d. inveterate
a. onerous
The team's performance has been abysmal this season.
a. profligate
b. adamant
c. abysmal
d. heterogenous
c. abysmal
stupid
silly
absurd
ludicrous
inane
v. strongly encourage someone to do something
a. contort
b. exhort
c. rapport
d. comport
b. exhort
predilection
n. preference or liking for something
However, most of his evidence is in the form of specious and ______ arguments.
a. sanctimonious
b. fatuous
c. fortuitous
d. fallacious
d. fallacious
You have to understand that he had a habit of making ______ statements.
a. grandiloquent
b. perturbing
c. fractious
d. expedient
a. grandiloquent
stubborn
uncompromising
inflexible
unyielding
intransigent
adj. sentimental in a sweet or sickly way
a. churlish
b. cavendish
c. bakshish
d. mawkish
d. mawkish
munificent
generous
The rain has ______ the rock wall for so many years that it's now just a few pebbles.
a. contravened
b. enervated
c. precluded
d. rescinded
b. enervated
Still, this is a Frank Black album, with its obscure references and _____ lyrics.
a. convenient
b. parenthetical
c. censorious
d. abstruse
d. abstruse
apparent
seeming
presumed
purported
n. depravity, wickedness
a. ineptitude
b. truculent
c. turpitude
d. vitriolic
c. turpitude
meretricious
adj. appearing attractive but having little value
People may _______ us, persecute us, or imprison us, but they cannot refute us.
a. promulgate
b. vituperate
c. litigate
d. inoculate
b. vituperate
These privileges were the reward for the _____ and servility demanded of Party functionaries.
a. aberration
b. predilection
c. abnegation
d. paucity
c. abnegation
meticulous
conscientious
exact
diligent
precise
punctilious