Real Easy
When you elicit, you're bringing out a response of some sort. A good comedian elicits a lot of laughs.
what does the word elicit mean?
evoke
“If you do not,” he continued threateningly, “it will be the worse for you. I am not used to being bilked.”
what does the word bilk mean?
cheat
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story.
what does the word equivocal mean?
indefinite
Ben noticed that other Marines were beginning to watch their table as the word of the neophyte drinker spread around the bar.
what does the word neophyte mean?
fledgling
He loved his brother but had learned to ignore his occasional “do as I say, not as I do” tirades.
what does the word tirades mean?
criticism
After school I head to the kitchen and pour cold chocolate milk into the quaint old teacup with roses that Teta, my maternal grandma, presented to me last Eid.
what does the word quaint mean?
old-fashioned
I was excited about seeing the magical golden carp. what does the word carp mean?
fish
In the evanescent delicacy she felt something as profound as she’d felt close to the bear.
what does the word evanescent mean?
temporary
You will face more hate and ridicule and ostracism than you can even begin to fathom.
what does the word ostracism mean?
banishment
He was soon in trouble again, and, over the years, has experienced many vicissitudes.
what does the word vicissitude mean?
change
The passage can be cryptic, abstruse, arcane; these are symptoms of the curse of knowledge.
what does the word abstruse mean?
recondite
“Thinking about the robberies I’m going to do when I get out,” he finally said, with the candor of his neighbor.
what does the word candor mean?
directness
Every conversational and epistolary road sign and guide- post that she had held up before the girls pointed to their father’s final, terrible failure.
what does the word epistolary mean?
the communication between two pen pals
His role, he said, was “not to ‘sell’ the U.S.A. but to ‘explain’ it, not to palliate its blemishes but to contextualize them.”
what does the word palliate mean?
moderate
“The image of Germany in the world was not of a very heterogenous society,” he said.
what does the word heterogenous mean?
diverse
“No,” said Henry and Francis, one on top of the other, with an alacrity that surprised me.
what does the word alacrity mean?
briskness
Pipes and conduits stuck up out of the roof here and there.
what does the word conduit mean?
pipe or tunnel
In that context, then, Coca-Cola’s error with New Coke becomes all the more egregious.
what does the word egregious mean?
reprehensible
Her lashes, he recalled, were golden red, her eyes pellucid blue.
what does the word pellucid mean?
crystal clear
To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain.
what does the word surfeit mean?
an excessive amount of something.
An aberration is something strange that rarely occurs. An example of an aberration is when the temperature in Minnesota hits 90 degrees in January — it's nice and warm, but it's really strange.
what does the word aberration mean?
anomaly
While I shook my head to dispel the direction my thoughts had taken, I thought of something else.
what does the word dispel mean?
break up
It was inane to be standing there listing these details.
what does the word inane mean?
foolish
Hence, the passage presages the coming of the Messiah.
what does the word presage mean?
a sign
They steadied the buckets with their hands, but the weight hung from the yokes on their shoulders.
what does the word yokes mean?
a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plow or cart that they are to pull.