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15 Cards in this Set
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Imperious (adj)
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Extremely overbearing/domineering,haughty
The imperious behavior of the dictator led to his overthrow. |
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Exigent (adj)
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Urgent, requiring immediate attention/imperative
The exigent situation required immediate attention. |
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Despondency/despondence (n)
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Depression, dejection/despair, grief
Because he thought that he had failed the test, he felt great despondency. |
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Palliate (v)
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To ease pain, guilt or intensity/abate, exculpate
The doctor attempted to palliate the patient's suffering by prescribing drugs. |
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Abstruse (adj)
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Difficult to understand, recondite, concealed/esoteric
Some concepts of Einstein were so abstruse that many physicists could not understand them. |
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Ethereal(adj)
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Heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible/celestial, sublime
The ethereal sounds of the music soothed and calmed the patient. |
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Replete (adj)
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Filled to capacity, abundantly supplied/awash, rife
The bar was replete with every possible kind of alcohol . |
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Portent(n)
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A sign or forewarning/harbinger, premonition
The stock market crash was a portent of the coming of a depression. |
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Despotic (adj)
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Ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical/autocratic
Americans do not like despotic behavior. |
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Austere (adj)
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Strict, stern; unadorned, ascetic/rigid, stringent
Pioneers usually led an austere existence. |
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Deleterious(adj)
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Harmful; dangerous; injurious/ruinous
Some chemicals have deleterious effects on those who must handle them. |
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Loquacious (adj)
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Very talkative/garrulous
The twins are quite different: one is taciturn and the other is loquacious. |
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Misanthrope（n)
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A hater of mankind
Hopefully, nuclear weapons will never fall into the hands of a misanthrope. |
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Vicissitude(n)
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A passing from one thing to another, change of luck/permutation , fluctuation
One can never get used to life's vicissitudes. |
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Gratuitous (adj)
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Given, freely,unwarranted/spontaneous, baseless
I resent your gratuitous comments because no one asked for them. |
