English Unit 1-3 Test

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Adversary

Back 1

an enemy; opponent

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Alienate

Back 2

to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey

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Artifice

Back 3

a skillful or ingenious device; clever skill; trickery;

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Coerce

Back 4

to compel; force

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Craven

Back 5

(adj): cowardly
(n): a coward

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Culinary

Back 6

of or related to cooking or the kitchen

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Delete

Back 7

to erase, wipe out, cut out

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Demise

Back 8

a death, especially of a person in a lofty position

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Exhilarate

Back 9

to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to

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Fallow

Back 10

(adj): plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow;
(n):land left unseeded
(v): to plow but not seed

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Harass

Back 11

to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks

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Inclement

Back 12

stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action

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Muse

Back 13

to think about in a dreamy way, ponder

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Negligible

Back 14

so unimportant that it can be disregarded

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Perpetuate

Back 15

to make permanent or long lasting

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Precedent

Back 16

an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action

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Punitive

Back 17

inflicting or aiming at punishment

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Redress

Back 18

(v): to set right, remedy
(n): relief from wrong or injury

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Sojourn

Back 19

(n): a temporary stay
(v): to stay for a time

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Urbane

Back 20

refined in manner or style; suave

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Adroit

Back 21

skillful, expert in the use of the hands or mind

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Amicable

Back 22

peaceable, friendly

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Averse

Back 23

having a deep-seated distasted; opposed, unwilling

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Belligerent

Back 24

(adj): given to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive
(n): one at war, one engaged in war

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Benevolent

Back 25

kindly, charitable

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Cursory

Back 26

hasty, not thorough

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Duplicity

Back 27

treachery, deceitfulness

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Extol

Back 28

to praise extravagantly

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Feasible

Back 29

possible, able to be done

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Grimace

Back 30

9n): a wry face, facial distortion
(v): to make a wry face

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Holocaust

Back 31

a large-scale destruction, especially by fire; a vast slaughter; a burnt offering

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Impervious

Back 32

not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance

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Impetus

Back 33

a moving force, impulse, stimulus

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Jeopardy

Back 34

danger

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Meticulous

Back 35

extremely careful; particular about details

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Nostalgia

Back 36

a longing for something past; homesickness

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quintessence

Back 37

the purest essence or form of something; the most typical example

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Retrogress

Back 38

to move backward, to return to an earlier condition

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Scrutinize

Back 39

to examine closely

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Tepid

Back 40

lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest

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Adulterate

Back 41

to corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value

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Ambidextrous

Back 42

able to use both hands equally well; very skillful; deceitful, hypocritical

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Augment

Back 43

to make larger increase

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Bereft

Back 44

deprived of; made unhappy through a loss

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Deploy

Back 45

to position or arrange; to utilize; to form up

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Dour

Back 46

stern, unyielding, gloomy, ill-humored

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Fortitude

Back 47

courage facing difficulties

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Gape

Back 48

to stare with open mouth; to open the mouth wide; to open wide

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Gibe

Back 49

(v): to utter taunting words
(n): an expression of scorn

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Guise

Back 50

an external appearance, cover, mask

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Insidious

Back 51

intended to deceive or entrap; sly; treacherous

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Intimation

Back 52

a hint, indirect suggestion

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Opulent

Back 53

wealthy, luxurious; ample; grandiose

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Pliable

Back 54

easily bent, flexible; easily influenced

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Reiterate

Back 55

to say again, repeat

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Stolid

Back 56

not easily moved mentally or emotionally; dull, unresponsive

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Tentative

Back 57

experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant

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Unkempt

Back 58

not combed; untidy; not properly maintained; unpolished, rude

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Verbatim

Back 59

word for word; exactly as written or spoken

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Warily

Back 60

cautiously, with great care