Definitions / Sentences
loss or lack of some essential high quality of mind or spirit. HINT: has a prefix meaning NOT
ignoble
Some gate-crashers have been turning up with ____________ trophies or, as happened this year, an actual Oscar that didn’t belong to them.
ersatz
choices : _________:: REPUTATION : besmirched
ignoble
club : rules :: religion:
dogma
repair: ________:: lionize: besmirch
ravage
Over the ____________ remonstrances of my parents I decided to drop my music lessons
vociferous
While interesting, that story is _____________ to the question before the court today.
immaterial
wet: dry :: energetic : _________________
phelgmatic
drought : flood :: agree : ____________
remonstrate
visceral: cerebral ::________: windfall
debacle
The huge meeting served primarily as the occasion on which to ______________ the official doctrine.
promulgate
having or showing a slow and stolid temperament
phlegmatic
ersatz : jewel :: ___________ :: logic
specious
drizzle: deluge :: helpful : __________
officious
_______: scoffs :: fan: adulates
cynic
The acid in a mulberry balances out the sweetness, so the fruit isn't _________.
cloying
The sleazy salesman on youtube _________ the alkaline water’s magical healing properties.
touted
DISINTEREST:ARDOR:: __________: ALACRITY
LANGUOR
_____ : smirk :: forswear : repudiate
scoff
MOIST : RAINFOREST ::_________ : INDIGENT
INSOLVENT
This word is a more intense and lasting emotion or pursuit than ardor, which is fitful and fleeting
zeal
His lack of integrity was obvious. He cheated without ____________.
compunction
sweet: ________:: ripe: spoiled
cloying
tourists __________ by heavy luggage
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encumbered
detente