Verbal Advantage 04

sun az (Iran)
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  1. provident
    giving something useful for the future
  2. impute
    attribute or credit to
  3. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  4. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  5. enigma
    something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  6. credence
    the mental attitude that something is believable
  7. venerate
    regard with feelings of respect and reverence
  8. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  9. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  10. autonomous
    existing as an independent entity
  11. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  12. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  13. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
  14. laity
    members of a religious community who are not clergy
  15. pungent
    strong and sharp to the sense of taste or smell
  16. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  17. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  18. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  19. morass
    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  20. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  21. prolific
    intellectually productive
  22. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
  23. myriad
    a large indefinite number
  24. dissident
    a person who objects to some established policy
  25. laudable
    worthy of high praise
  26. inimitable
    matchless
  27. jaded
    exhausted
  28. myopic
    unable to see distant objects clearly
  29. demonstrable
    capable of being proved
  30. callow
    young and inexperienced
  31. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  32. pontificate
    administer a pontifical office
  33. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  34. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  35. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  36. impromptu
    with little or no preparation or forethought
  37. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  38. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  39. exemplary
    worthy of imitation
  40. impeccable
    without error or flaw
  41. attest
    provide evidence for
  42. copious
    large in number or quantity
  43. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  44. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  45. recrimination
    mutual accusations
  46. affinity
    a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
  47. volatile
    liable to lead to sudden change or violence
  48. squalid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  49. expedite
    process fast and efficiently
  50. abject
    of the most contemptible kind
Created on Sat Dec 07 15:15:36 EST 2013 (updated Sun Dec 08 15:21:16 EST 2013)

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