Verbal Advantage 8

Jayman (Iran)
Level 8 of Verbal Advantage
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  1. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  2. obviate
    do away with
  3. emolument
    compensation received by virtue of holding an office
  4. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  5. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  6. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  7. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  8. variegated
    having an assortment of colors
  9. succor
    assistance in time of difficulty
  10. importune
    beg persistently and urgently
  11. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  12. wizened
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  13. captious
    tending to find and call attention to faults
  14. emendation
    a correction by emending
  15. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  16. expurgate
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  17. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  18. spurious
    plausible but false
  19. volition
    the act of making a choice
  20. interpolate
    insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
  21. adduce
    advance evidence for
  22. miscreant
    a person without moral scruples
  23. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  24. suppurate
    cause to fester and discharge pus
  25. martinet
    someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
  26. compunction
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
  27. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  28. nostrum
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  29. propitiate
    make peace with
  30. efficacy
    capacity or power to produce a desired result
  31. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  32. pariah
    a person who is rejected from society or home
  33. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  34. licentious
    lacking moral discipline
  35. superannuated
    too old to be useful
  36. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  37. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  38. crotchet
    a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
  39. epigraph
    a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
  40. expatiate
    add details to clarify an idea
  41. sinecure
    a job that involves minimal duties
  42. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  43. imbroglio
    an intricate and confusing interpersonal situation
  44. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  45. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  46. offal
    viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal
  47. lissome
    moving and bending with ease
  48. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  49. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  50. blandishment
    flattery intended to persuade
Created on Mon Dec 09 12:56:16 EST 2013 (updated Mon Dec 09 14:36:42 EST 2013)

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