Verbal Advantage Level 6

jaceynae (Vietnam)
Verbal Advantage Level 6 by Charles Harrington Elster
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  1. legerdemain
    an illusory feat
  2. puerile
    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  3. complicity
    guilt as a confederate in a crime or offense
  4. transmute
    change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
  5. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  6. edify
    make understand
  7. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  8. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  9. vacuous
    devoid of matter
  10. capacious
    large in the amount that can be contained
  11. mnemonic
    of or relating to the practice of aiding the memory
  12. sonorous
    full and loud and deep
  13. admonish
    scold or reprimand; take to task
  14. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  15. circuitous
    deviating from a straight course
  16. vindicate
    show to be right by providing justification or proof
  17. bucolic
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  18. ostracize
    expel from a community or group
  19. plethora
    extreme excess
  20. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  21. commensurate
    corresponding in size or degree or extent
  22. incessant
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  23. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  24. tangential
    of superficial relevance if any
  25. tenable
    based on sound reasoning or evidence
  26. impalpable
    not perceptible to the touch
  27. odious
    extremely repulsive or unpleasant
  28. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  29. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  30. remuneration
    paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses
  31. peccadillo
    a petty misdeed
  32. supine
    lying face upward
  33. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  34. heterodox
    characterized by departure from accepted standards
  35. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  36. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  37. infinitesimal
    immeasurably small
  38. goad
    stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
  39. malinger
    avoid responsibilities and duties, often by faking illness
  40. aver
    declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
  41. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  42. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  43. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  44. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  45. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  46. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  47. stricture
    a principle that restricts the extent of something
  48. opulent
    rich and superior in quality
  49. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  50. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
Created on Sun Sep 03 08:29:56 EDT 2017

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