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Definition
Word Sentence
Synonym
Antonym
Part of Speech
100
To prepare by combining ingredients, makeup (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
What is concoct?
100
The political party was torn by_________________ and finally split into two things.
What is dissension?
100
To confuse; to disturb the composure of
What is disconcert? What is upset, rattle, ruffle?
100
To talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
What is prate? What is come to the point?
100
Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
What is beneficent? What is an adjective?
200
To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
What is mitigate?
200
Experience taught her to control her ______________ outbursts of anger.
What is intemperate?
200
To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
What is debase? What is cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate?
200
To find fault with, scold, rebuke
What is reprove? What is praise, commend, laud, pat on the back?
200
Based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation
What is hypothetical? What is an adjective?
300
Coarse, unfeeling; stupid
What is crass?
300
Even if they ____________________ him to a mere clerical job, he is determined to make his presence felt.
What is relegate?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! To deny responsibility for or connection with
What is disavow? What is disclaim, retract, abjure?
300
Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
What is cadaverous? What is robust, rosy, the picture of health?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! To commit sacrilege upon; treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute
What is desecrate? What is a verb?
400
To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify
What is expurgate?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! She became as ________________ on the basketball court as she was quick at mathematical puzzles.
What is stalwart?
400
To call into question; to attack as false
What is impugn? What is challenge, deny dispute, question?
400
Inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent
What is redoubtable? What is laughable, risible?
400
An armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal
What is gauntlet? What is a noun?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! Stinging, bitter in temper or tone
What is acrimonious?
500
After he ___________the unruly children, they settled down to study quietly.
What is castigate?
500
Open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance
What is susceptible? What is vulnerable, receptive, impressionable?
500
Very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette
What is punctilious? What is careless, perfunctory?
500
Faithlessness, treachery
What is perfidy? What is a noun?