High-Level Vocabulary List #5

His Holiness King Ahmed TheGreat (United States of America)
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  1. rescind
    cancel officially
  2. serene
    not agitated
  3. apprehensive
    in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
  4. dilatory
    wasting time
  5. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
  6. peevish
    easily irritated or annoyed
  7. shrewd
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  8. denuded
    without the natural or usual covering
  9. imprudent
    not sensible, responsible, or wise
  10. presumption
    a premise that is taken for granted
  11. induction
    the act of bringing about something
  12. amalgam
    a combination or blend of diverse things
  13. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
  14. milieu
    the environmental condition
  15. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  16. candid
    openly straightforward and direct without secretiveness
  17. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  18. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  19. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  20. visceral
    relating to or affecting the internal organs
Created on Mon Dec 16 19:13:29 EST 2013 (updated Mon Dec 16 20:47:23 EST 2013)

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