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Front 1

Tortuous

Back 1

something with twists and turns –– a path, an argument, a story.

Complex and complicated.

Sentences:

1) A tortuous road up the mountain.

2) tortuous legal procedures.3) tortuous negotiations lasting for months.

4) His tortuous reasoning.

Front 2

Spectrum

Back 2

a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities.

Front 3

Repudiate

Back 3

Refuse to acknowledge or ratify or recognize as valid.

Sentences:

1) The woman repudiated the divorce settlement.

2) when a child or lover is repudiated, it means cast off or disown them.

3) Repudiate a debt.

4) The parents Repudiated their son.

5) She Repudiated the accusations.

Front 4

Propensity

Back 4

A natural tendency to behave in a certain way.

Sentences:

1) Barking is the Propensity of dogs.

2) the propensity of disease to spread.

Front 5

Torpor

Back 5

A state of mental and physical inactivity.

it's also a scientific term for a state of deep sleep that allows animals to conserve energy.

Sentences:

1) He fell into a deep torpor.

Front 6

Specious

Back 6

Plausible but false.

Generally an argument, which appears to be good, true but isn't.

1) a specious claim.

Front 7

Reprobate

Back 7

A person without moral scruples.

deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.

A bad egg!!

Sentences:

1) the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat.

2) These ideas were reprobated.

Front 8

Proliferate

Back 8

Spreading or growing rapidly.

Sentences;

1) Non proliferation treaty-- prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

2) Pizza parlors proliferate in this area.

Front 9

Zealot

Back 9

Zeal + lot.

a fervent and even militant proponent of something.

The coffee lover was a zealot regarding where his coffee was grown, who grew it, and how it was roasted.

Front 10

Tirade

Back 10

An emotional and violent speech.

Sentences:

1) The Republicans who witnessed Trump's racist tirade must speak up and condemn what was said and demand he apologize.

Front 11

Soporific

Back 11

Sleep inducing.

1) Soporific drugs.

Front 12

Reproach

Back 12

Mildly criticize. Can also be shame sometimes.

Synonyms: admonish, reprimand.

Sentences:

1) The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior.

2) he brought reproach upon his family.

Front 13

Prohibitive

Back 13

Tending to discourage.

1) The prices are prohibitive.

Front 14

Whimsical

Back 14

determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason.

If you decide at the last minute to fly to Europe, you could say you went there on a whim

Sentences:

1) the victim of whimsical persecutions.

Front 15

Tenuous

Back 15

Thin in gauge or diameter.

Same roots as tender.

Tenuous arguments won't win any debate tournaments.

Front 16

Solicitous

Back 16

Full of anxiety and concern.

Sentences:

1) Solicitous parents.

2) solicitous about the future.

Front 17

Relegate

Back 17

Assign to a lower position or rank. Can also mean classify.

Delegate is similar to relegate.

Delegate: send someone in your place to complete the task.

Sentences;

1) People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms

Front 18

Profound

Back 18

Situated or extending to a great depth.

Sentences:

1) the profound depths of the sea.

2) the differences are profound.

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Welter

Back 19

Confusing multitude of things.

to describe an enormous, messy pile, like the jumble of papers, coffee mugs, pens, and food wrappers on the desk of the messiest person in the office.

Deeply involved.

Sentences:

1) The shipwrecked survivors weltered in the sea for hours.

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Tangential

Back 20

Of superficial relevance.

Synonyms: Digression.

Sentences:

1) a tangential remark.

Front 21

Skeptic

Back 21

One who doubts habitually.

The one who can't be convinced. The guy who's ready to poke holes in the most brilliant argument you've ever made.

Front 22

Refute

Back 22

To refuse something by providing proof or evidence.

Sentences:

1) The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments.

Front 23

Prodigal

Back 23

Recklessly wasteful or spending too much amount of money.

Sentences:

1) prodigal in their expenditures.

Front 24

Wary

Back 24

Describe yourself as wary if you don't quite trust someone or something and want to proceed with caution..

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Sentences:

1) “they were wary in their movements”!

2) “a wary glance at the black clouds”!

3) “taught to be wary of strangers”!

Front 25

Tacit

Back 25

implied by or inferred from actions or statements.

Holding hands might be a tacit acknowledgment that a boy and girl are dating.

Sentences:

1) a tacit agreement

Front 26

Shard

Back 26

A broken piece of brittle artifact.

When a you break a glass, it's shards are what you try to avoid.

Front 27

refractory

Back 27

stubbornly resistant to authority or control.

Synonyms: recalcitrant.

Sentences:

1) “a refractory case of acne”.

2) He was not averse to shipping refractory slaves to the West Indies.

3)The outside of a space ship is made with a refractory metal.

Front 28

Problematic

Back 28

poses a problem or causes difficulties.

open to doubt or debate.

Sentences:

1) a problematic situation at home.

2) If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic.

Front 29

Unwarranted

Back 29

incapable of being justified or explained or authorization.

Sentences:

1) unwarranted jealousy.

2) unwarranted limitations of personal freedom.

Front 30

Supposition

Back 30

the cognitive process of supposing.

An assumption is an idea or theory that is usually made without proof. A supposition, on the other hand, has the connotation that the idea or theory is testable and provable.

Yet such a supposition would be entirely unwarranted.

Front 31

Secrete

Back 31

generate and separate from cells or bodily fluidsplace out of sight; keep secret.

Sentences:

1) When you squeeze a lemon, it secretes juice. When you stuff your money in a mattress, you secrete it there.

Front 32

Recondite

Back 32

difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge.

Synonyms: abstruse, esoteric.

Sentences:

1) Some recondite problem in historiography.

Front 33

Probity

Back 33

complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles.

Sentences:

1) in a world where financial probity may not be widespread.

2) he enjoys an exaggerated reputation for probity

3) When campaigning he emphasised his probity and humility.

Front 34

Volatile

Back 34

liable to lead to sudden change or violence.

changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor.

Synonyms: unstable.

1) volatile stocks.

2) a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation

Front 35

Supersede

Back 35

take the place or move into the position of.

Synonyms: replace.

Where is your courage and integrity, or does political expediency supersede what’s best for our country?.

Front 36

Decorum

Back 36

propriety in manners and conduct

Propriety: conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behaviour or morals.

Sentences:

1) He had no idea of funeral decorum.

Front 37

Endemic

Back 37

native to or confined to a certain region.

constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality.

Sentences:

1) food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world

2)it is an endemic found only this island.

Front 38

Implacable

Back 38

incapable of being placated.

Placated- to please or calm

Im+ placet = not pleasable.

1) an implacable enemy.

2) The old lady thought she’d never seen a child so implacable.

Front 39

Mundane

Back 39

found in the ordinary course of events.

concerned with the world or worldly matters.“mundane affairs”.

Front 40

Appease

Back 40

To make peace with;

Appease often implies abandoning your moral principles to satisfy the demands of someone who is greedy for power.

Sentences:

1) the cold drink appeased his thirst.

Front 41

Default

Back 41

1. an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified.2. loss due to not showing up.

Sentences:

he lost the game by default

Front 42

Enervate

Back 42

weaken mentally or morally.

Sentences:

1) Liberals complain about being enervated, unable to concentrate

Front 43

Implicit

Back 43

implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something.

Synonyms: Tacit

Sentences:

an implicit agreement not to raise the subject”“there was implicit criticism in his voice”“anger was implicit in the argument”“the oak is implicit in the acorn

Front 44

Negate

Back 44

make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of or neutralize.

Sentences:

“This action will negate the effect of my efforts”

Front 45

Apprise

Back 45

inform (somebody) of something.gain in value.

Sentences:

1) Presidents get apprised of foreign affairs, but you will most likely not get apprised of weather conditions or dinner plans.

2) “Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?”

Front 46

Deference

Back 46

courteous regard for people's feelings.

The noun deference goes with the verb defer, which means "to yield to someone's opinions or wishes out of respect for that person."

If you and your dad disagree about the best route to the grocery store, you might defer to him, and take his route.

Front 47

Engenders

Back 47

Engender is a fancy way of saying "to make happen.

Negative messages will engender self-doubt and lead us to underestimate ourselves.

Front 48

Implode

Back 48

burst inward

Type of collapse.

“The bottle imploded”

As a result, the U.K.’s computing industry imploded

Front 49

Neophyte

Back 49

any new participant in some activity.

Neo-new ; phyte--plant.

A new church convert can also be a neophyte.

Sentences:

A Frisbee neophyte is someone who has just thrown the disc for the first time

Front 50

Approbation

Back 50

official approval.

Probation is a testing period, to see if you can be good. Approbation means it's all good.

Sentences:

Still, the approbation for the bill was not universal.

I also don’t need the approbation of everybody about who I am.

Front 51

Dilineate

Back 51

represented accurately or precisely.

delineate is to outline and define something in detail.

Sentences:

You aptly delineated the complexity of the issue.

Front 52

Enhance

Back 52

increase

“This will enhance your enjoyment”

There is a dramatic pause to enhance the horror

Front 53

Inadvertently

Back 53

without knowledge or intention.

Synonyms: unknowingly.

It was her mother, too, who inadvertently set her political career in motion.

someone else's coat from the coatroom because it looks just like yours.

Front 54

Obdurate

Back 54

Obdurate is a formal word meaning stubborn.

Ob+ durus = oppose+ hard

Synonyms: obstinate, adamant.

the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart.

Front 55

Appropriate

Back 55

suitable for a particular person, place, condition, etc.“a book not appropriate for children”“a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity”“it seems that an apology is appropriate”

Front 56

Denigrate

Back 56

charge falsely or with malicious intent;

attack the good name and reputation of someone or cause to seem less serious.

Denigrare - to blacken.

Sentences:

1) With his denigrating remarks about black and brown immigrants dominating the news cycle, it’s worse than ever.

Front 57

Ephemeral

Back 57

Anything lasting a very short time.

Sentences:

Each tells a story of creative straining toward fragile, often ephemeral acceptance.

Each one is painstakingly drawn and utterly solid, but their overall effect is ephemeral.

Front 58

Inchoate

Back 58

Only partially in existence, imperfectly formed.

When something is inchoate, although you don’t yet understand what it is fully, you have a strong sense that it is indeed coming.

Sentences:

1) A vague inchoate idea.

2) We stumble to express our inchoate sensations, and they solidify into words.

Front 59

Obsequious

Back 59

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

Synonyms: bootlicker.

obsequious shop assistants.

Trump has adopted a curiously conciliatory, even obsequious, posture toward Putin, a contrast with his attitude toward many other world leaders.

Front 60

Arduous

Back 60

characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.

difficult to accomplish.

Different from Ardour

Sentences:

1) the arduous work of preparing a dictionary.

2) worked their arduous way up the mining valley.

Front 61

Deride

Back 61

treat or speak of with contempt.

Contempt - willful disobedience to or open disrespect.

dērīdēre, meaning "to ridicule, to scorn,"

Synonyms: Mock.

He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics

Front 62

Equanimity

Back 62

(n) steadiness of mind under stress.

Equal + Animus = equal+mind

emotional calmness and balance in times of stress.

Sentences:

1) Trump responded with rare equanimity, and no apologies.

2) He is really good at taking losses with equanimity, and he is always very optimistic.

Front 63

Incogruity

Back 63

Out of place.

the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.

Sentences:

Front 64

Obviate

Back 64

To eliminate the need of something or prevent something from happening.

Ob - to go against.

Like obstruct or obstacle.

Sentences:

“That obviates the need,” she said, “for a human engineer.”

Self-driving cars would obviate those problems, even if they would introduce new fears.

Front 65

Savor

Back 65

the taste or smell of something. Or to give flavor to or : to delight in taste of something.

Generally used for taste or flavour of something.

Sentences:

1) Without her love, life has lost its savor for me.

2) enjoy savoring the moment.

3) Couples understandably want to savor their giddy joy.

Front 66

Recluse

Back 66

One who lives in solitude.

withdrawn from society; seeking solitude.

Sentences:

1) My neighbor is a recluse—I only see him about once a year.2) he was sick of cities and crowds, so he decided to go live by himself in the woods as a recluse

Front 67

Pristine

Back 67

immaculately clean and unused.

completely free from dirt or contamination.

Sentences:

1) handed her his pristine white handkerchief.

2) pristine mountain snow.

Front 68

Vituperative

Back 68

marked by harshly abusive criticism.

Synonyms: Scathing.

Sentences:

the type of provocative magazine article that is guaranteed to engender vituperative threats of subscription cancellations.

Front 69

Substantiate

Back 69

To provide substance to; to make it firm, stronger, strengthen. Or represent in a bodily form.

Sentences:

1) The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist.

2) The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country.

3) our ideas must be substantiated into actions.

Front 70

Saturate

Back 70

To fill completely.

Sentences:

1) A heavy rainstorm can saturate the ground, leaving puddles on the lawn because no more water can be absorbed..

Front 71

Recant

Back 71

to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly.

Synonyms: abjure, renounce.

Sentences:

1) Church officials asked the minister to recant.2) Witnesses threatened to recant their testimony when the court released their names to the paper.

Front 72

Prevaricate

Back 72

be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.

Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate.

"Prevaricate" is less accusatory and softens the bluntness of "lie," usually implying that someone is evading the truth rather than purposely making false statements. "Equivocate" is similar to "prevaricate," but it generally implies that someone is deliberately using words that have more than one meaning as a way to conceal the truth.

Sentences:

Chinese state media have prevaricated on the prospects of an oil ban.

Front 73

Viscous

Back 73

having a relatively high resistance to flow.

Front 74

Subside

Back 74

Wear off, die down or sink to a lower level or form a depression or descend into.

Sentences:

1) The pain subsided.

2) the valleys subside.

3) She subsided into the chair.

4) the mud subsides when the waters become calm.

Front 75

Satiate

Back 75

Fill to satisfaction.

Satiate is often used in situations in which a thirst, craving, or need is satisfied.

Negative tone attached to it.

Sentences:

1) a long drink of water at last satiated my thirst.

2) a couple of satiate dinner guests had ensconced themselves on the living room sofa.

Front 76

Recalcitrant

Back 76

Stubbornly resistant to authority and control.

Synonyms: refractory.

Sentences:

1) the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators.

2) the manager worried that the recalcitrant employee would try to undermine his authority.

Front 77

Presumptuous

Back 77

overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties.

Taking for granted!!

Sentences:

it's a little presumptuous of you to assume that I'm your new best friend just because I invited you along

the presumptuous doctor didn't even bother to explain to me the treatment that I would be receiving

Front 78

Viable

Back 78

Capable of growth or development.

Viable seeds

Viable fetus

Wright brothers, who were the first to develop a viable airplane after many tries and spectacular failures.

Front 79

Subpeona

Back 79

a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court.

serve or summon with a subpoena

Sentences:

1) The witness and her records were subpoenaed.

Front 80

Sanction

Back 80

It has two meanings.

1. To approve

it had the sanction of the church.

2. a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards. Impose a punishment or act of punishing.

Then, when it ended, the U.S. put sanctions on Pakistan and cut off aid.

Front 81

rarefied

Back 81

of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.

Having low density

Synonyms: elevated, grand, idealistic.

1) rarefied conversations of scholars.

2) lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air.

Front 82

Precursor

Back 82

something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone.

Synonyms: Harbinger

1) Pride is a precursor to the fall.

(Chem): a substance from which another substance is formed

Front 83

Verbose

Back 83

containing more words than necessary.

verbose and ineffective instructional methods.

Sentences:

He is a verbose speaker.

She has a verbose writing style.

Front 84

Strut

Back 84

walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others.

gait - A manner of walking.

1) He struts around like a rooster in a hen house

Front 85

Salubrious

Back 85

promoting health; healthful.

Same root as Salute.

root - salus - welfare/healthy.

Sentences:

1) Pittsburgh’s eating and drinking habits, by reputation at least, aren’t always the most salubrious.

2) not the most salubrious campsite”“one of the less salubrious suburbs”

Front 86

quiescent

Back 86

quiet, still and inactive.

Sentences:

1) the quiescent melancholy of the town .

2) the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation

3) a quiescent tumor

Front 87

Precipitate

Back 87

1) to bring about abruptly. (make happen)

“The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution”.

2) To throw down violently or sharply.

“The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below”.

3) done with very great haste and without due deliberation.

“wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king”.

Front 88

veracious

Back 88

habitually speaking the truth.

Sentences:

1) a veracious witness.

2) He has a reputation for being veracious, so people generally take his word for things

Front 89

Striated

Back 89

marked with stria or striations/ marked with stripes.

When you draw a row of stripes in clay with the tines of a fork, you're striating it. A striated rock surface might show evidence of the movement of glaciers thousands of years ago. Striated muscle has a striped appearance.

Front 90

Quibble

Back 90

evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections.

argue over petty things.

Sentences:

1) he spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II.

2) don't quibble over who gets to sit in fron.

3) Let's not quibble over pennies.

Front 91

Sage

Back 91

a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom.

Thanks to the sage advice of your friend, you didn't write your teacher an angry e-mail!

Front 92

Precarious

Back 92

Something which is unstable, difficult or dangerous.

If your life is precarious or you are in a precarious situation, things could become difficult, maybe even dangerous, for you.

Synonyms: uncertain

Sentences:

1) “a precarious truce”.

2) I’m not sure if we’ll be able to use it, since my husband’s health is so precarious.

3) the precarious life of an undersea diver.

Front 93

Venerate

Back 93

regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of.

Sentences:

1) Mother Teresa was venerated for her work with the poor, and Gandhi was venerated for his efforts for peace.

Front 94

Stolid

Back 94

having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited

Synonyms: Impassive

Sentences:

1)“"a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf”

2) “her face showed nothing but stolid indifference”.

Front 95

Reticent

Back 95

quiet or restrained and formal

who doesn’t like to talk.

someone who doesn’t want to draw attention to herself.

who prefers seclusion to other people.

Sentences:

1) But investors haven’t been tested like this, they might be more reticent than in the past.

Front 96

reverent

Back 96

feeling or showing profound respect or veneration; godly.

Synonyms: respectful

Sentences:

1) maintained a reverent silence.

2) The mode of carrying the dead is not reverent.

Front 97

qualified

Back 97

meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task.

limited or restricted; not absolute

Sentences:

1) gave only qualified approval.

2) Jay-Z qualified his remark by saying: “I’m being funny, I say that, too.”

Front 98

preamble

Back 98

a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution .

Preamble: pre+ramble.

Sentences:

1) In a move widely seen as a preamble to loosening fuel standards, U.S.

Front 99

Vacillate

Back 99

be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action. or move or sway in a rising and wave like pattern.

antonyms: Resolute

synonyms: oscillate, hover.

Sentences:

1) the line on the monitor vacillated.

2) I vacillated between teaching and journalism.

Front 100

stipulate

Back 100

specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement;

make an express demand or provision in an agreement.

Sentences:

1) The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life.

2) The contract stipulates the dates of the payments.