Common Words II (Magoosh)

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  1. aesthete
    one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art
  2. apathetic
    marked by a lack of interest
  3. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  4. bucolic
    idyllically rustic
  5. chortle
    laugh quietly or with restraint
  6. concede
    give over
  7. conspicuous
    obvious to the eye or mind
  8. cryptic
    having a secret or hidden meaning
  9. culminate
    end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
  10. culpability
    a state of guilt
  11. decorous
    characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste
  12. deferential
    showing courteous regard for people's feelings
  13. dictatorial
    characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule
  14. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  15. engender
    call forth
  16. entrenched
    dug in
  17. eschew
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
  18. exacerbate
    make worse
  19. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  20. frivolous
    not serious in content, attitude, or behavior
  21. gainsay
    take exception to
  22. gall
    the trait of being rude and impertinent
  23. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  24. glut
    supply with an excess of
  25. gossamer
    characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
  26. impudent
    improperly forward or bold
  27. incisive
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  28. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
    impossible to stop or prevent
  29. lambast
    censure severely or angrily
  30. mawkish
    very sentimental or emotional
  31. mitigate
    make less severe or harsh
  32. obscure
    not clearly understood or expressed
  33. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  34. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  35. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  36. preclude
    make impossible, especially beforehand
  37. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  38. prescience
    the power to foresee the future
  39. querulous
    habitually complaining
  40. recondite
    difficult to understand
  41. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  42. rustic
    characteristic of rural life
  43. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  44. torpor
    a state of motor and mental inactivity
  45. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
  46. volubility
    the quality of being facile in speech and writing
  47. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  48. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  49. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  50. meticulous
    marked by extreme care in treatment of details
Created on Sun Dec 29 21:37:47 EST 2013 (updated Wed Jan 01 13:33:16 EST 2014)

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