Week 1

Front 1

candid

Back 1

honest, straightforward

Front 2

conjecture

Back 2

inference, guesswork

Front 3

didactic

Back 3

instructive (too much)

Front 4

effusive

Back 4

showing excessive emotion

Front 5

euphemism

Back 5

a mild, inderict, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term

Front 6

extrapolate

Back 6

to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information

Front 7

incoherent

Back 7

lacking cohesion or connection

Front 8

insinuate

Back 8

to suggest or hint at in an indirect unpleasant way

Front 9

loquacious

Back 9

very talktative

Front 10

lucid

Back 10

clear, easily understood

Front 11

rhetoric

Back 11

the art of using language effectively and persuasively

Front 12

acumen

Back 12

quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgement or insight

Front 13

adroit

Back 13

dexterous

Front 14

ascertain

Back 14

to find out through investigation or experimentation

Front 15

astute

Back 15

clever

Front 16

circumspect

Back 16

careful, discreet

Front 17

disseminate

Back 17

to scatter widely, as inseed

Front 18

erudition

Back 18

deep, extensive learning

Front 19

pedantic

Back 19

focused on the small details of subject

Front 20

perspicacious

Back 20

clear-sighted

having or showing an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious

Front 21

pragmatic

Back 21

dealing with the problems that exist in a specific situation in a reasonable and logical way instead of depending on ideas and theories

practical

Front 22

precocious

Back 22

of a child: having or showing the qualities or abilities of an adult at an unusually early age

Front 23

prolific

Back 23

producing a large amount of something

Front 24

prospectus

Back 24

formal proposal

Front 25

rudimentary

Back 25

basic, elementary

Front 26

abstruse

Back 26

hard to understand

Front 27

callous

Back 27

not feeling or showing any concern about the problems or suffering of other people

Front 28

convoluted

Back 28

complicated, intricate, hard to understand

Front 29

disaffected

Back 29

no longer happy and willing to support a leader, government, etc.

lost faith or loyalty

Front 30

enigma

Back 30

mystery or puzzle or riddle

Front 31

inscrutable

Back 31

difficult to understand

Front 32

reticent

Back 32

reserved

Front 33

staid

Back 33

serious, boring, unemotional

Front 34

arcane

Back 34

known or understood by only a few people

Front 35

assimilate

Back 35

to absorb

to make or become similar

Front 36

autonomy

Back 36

independence

Front 37

cosmopolitan

Back 37

worldly, widely sophisticated

Front 38

derivative

Back 38

something that comes from another source

Front 39

esoteric

Back 39

only taught to or understood by members of a special group, hard to understand

Front 40

gaffe

Back 40

social blunder or error

Front 41

idiosyncrasy

Back 41

characteristic peculiar to an individual or group

Front 42

insular

Back 42

separated from other people or cultures, isolated

Front 43

orthodox

Back 43

adhering to traditional established

esp in religion

Front 44

potentate

Back 44

a powerful leader

Front 45

castigate

Back 45

to harshly criticize

Front 46

censure

Back 46

official criticism

Front 47

denounce

Back 47

to publicly criticize

to condemn openly

Front 48

reclusive

Back 48

preferring seclusion or isolation

Front 49

relinquish

Back 49

to give up something by formal anouncement

to give to another person or group

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vituperative

Back 50

verbal abuse, harsh condemnation

Front 51

circumscrivbe

Back 51

to draw a circle around, to restrict

Front 52

contiguous

Back 52

sharing an edge or boundary, touching