Tuesday, December 31, 2013

MORE VOCAB!

So I was taking few practice tests and I noticed the vocabulary does not come easy!
Here is a list of words I came across

1. Urbane: sophisticated
2. placate: to make someone less angry
3. palliate: to reduce the severity
4. lewd = evil wicked = wanton
5. in satiable: unsatisfied
6. platitude: dull unoriginal statements
7. terse: short
8. trivial: unimportant
9. laud: praise
10. intermittent: irregular
11. Doleful: sorrowful
12. Ebullient: cheerful
13. Asinine: stupid 
14. surreptitious: clandestine, stealth 
15. supercilious: thinking above others 
16. saga: long narrative tale 
17. Plaintive: sad and mournful
18. Paradigm: framework, way of thought
19. Cupidity: avarice, desire for excess wealth
20. Charlatan: fraud, saying to know one thing but does not really
21. Intrepid: fearless
22. Insipid: lacking flavor dull 
23. Remunerate: to pay payment 
24. Conspicuous: standing out clear 
25. Watershed: a turning point, makes a change
26. Pertinent: to the point, clear 
27. Exculpate: to free from guilt or blame
28. Precipitate: to cause hastily quick impulsive 

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