1St Term Final ::: Words

Front 1

Defer
(2)

Back 1

1. To postpone; to delay.
2. To yield respectfully to the opinion or will of another.

Front 2

Dilatory

Back 2

Tending to delay or postpone.

Front 3

Infer
(2)

Back 3

1. To use available evidence to form a conclusion.
2. To guess.

Front 4

Perennial
(3)

Back 4

1. Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
2. Continuing regularly.
3. Living longer than two years, said especially of plants.

Front 5

Permeate

Back 5

To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout.

Front 6

Persevere

Back 6

To hold fast to a task or purpose despite handicaps of obstacles.

Front 7

Adversity

Back 7

Hardship; misfortune.

Front 8

Avert
(2)

Back 8

1. To turn away (one's eyes)
2. To prevent.

Front 9

Distort
(2)

Back 9

1. To change something to make it false.
2. To twist (something) out of its natural shape.

Front 10

Introvert

Back 10

A person whose thoughts and interests and directed inward.

Front 11

Prose
(2)

Back 11

1. Ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter (that is, without verse) [not poetry]
2. Referring to speech or writing other than verse.

Front 12

Retort
(2)

Back 12

1. To reply quickly and sharply, often as if in reply to an accusation.
2. A quick, witty, sometimes biting reply.

Front 13

Subservient

Back 13

Excessively willing to yield; submissive.

Front 14

Exhilarate

Back 14

To cheer; to stimulate; to enliven.

Front 15

Exonerate
(2)

Back 15

1. To free from blame.
2. To relieve of a task.

Front 16

Exorbitant

Back 16

Excessive.

Front 17

Expound

Back 17

To set forth an explanation or view of something in detail. [synonym: extrapolate]

Front 18

Impose
(2)

Back 18

1. To set up, or to force something (or oneself) on others.
2. To take unfair advantage of someone.

Front 19

Impostor

Back 19

One who deceives by using a false identity.

Front 20

Proponent

Back 20

One who argues in support of something.

Front 21

Extraneous
(2)

Back 21

1. Coming from the outside, foreign.
2. Not essential or vital.

Front 22

Extrovert

Back 22

A person chiefly interested in things outside the self, directing thoughts outward rather than inward.

Front 23

Medium
(2)

Back 23

1. A substance or element though which something is transmitted.
2. A person thought to have communication with spirits of the dead.

Front 24

Obseqious

Back 24

Excessively willing to yield to others.

Front 25

Sequester
(2)

Back 25

1. To go into hiding; to seek solitude.
2. To isolate.

Front 26

Abstain

Back 26

To refrain from something by one's choice.

Front 27

Commodious

Back 27

Spacious, roomy, as in a house.

Front 28

Pertinacious

Back 28

Holding firmly, even stubbornly, to a belief.

Front 29

Tenacity

Back 29

Hanging on to something persistently or stubbornly.

Front 30

Adjunct

Back 30

An added part not essential to the whole.

Front 31

Injunction

Back 31

An authoritative command or order.

Front 32

Juncture
(2)

Back 32

1. A serious state of affairs.
2. The condition or point of being joined.

Front 33

Stringent
(2)

Back 33

1. Severe; constricted; tight.
2. Pertaining to a scarcity of money.

Front 34

Subjugate

Back 34

To conquer; to dominate completely.