LAE Vocabulary Flash Cards 433 - 540

8/11/2019 LAE Vocabulary Flash Cards 433 - 540

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LAE VOCABULARY

FLASH CARDS

Flash Cards 433 - 540


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RENEGADE

Word No. 433

MEANING

A deserter from one faith, cause, principle, or party for another

An individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior

Having deserted a faith, cause, or religion for a hostile one

Having rejected tradition: unconventional

SYNONYM

Apostate, defector, deserter, recreant

ANTONYM

loyalist


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REPROBATE

Word No. 434

MEANING

To condemn strongly as unworthy, unacceptable or evil

To foreordain to damnation

To refuse to accept: reject

Rejected as worthless or not standing a test

SYNONYM

Debased, debauched decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized,

depraved, dissipated, dissolute, jackleg, libertine, loose, perverse,perverted, rakehell, rakish, corrupt, sick, unclean, unwholesome,warped

ANTONYM

Pure, uncorrupt, uncorrupted


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REQUIEM

Word No. 435

MEANING

A mass for the dead

A solemn chant (as a dirge) for the repose of the dead

Something that resembles a solemn chant

A musical setting of the mass for the dead

A musical composition in honor of the dead

SYNONYM Dirge, elegy, lament, threnody

ANTONYM


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RESOLUTE

Word No. 436

MEANING

Marked by firm determination: resolved

Bold, steady

SYNONYM

Bent (on or upon), bound, decisive, do-or-die, firm, hell-bent (on or

upon), intent, out, purposeful, determined, resolved, set, single-

minded ANTONYM

Faltering, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, undetermined,

unresolved, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed


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RESTIVE

Word No. 437

MEANING

Stubbornly resisting control: balky

Marked by impatience or uneasiness: fidgety

SYNONYM

Balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, froward, incompliant,

insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious,

recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, disobedient, ungovernable, unruly,untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)

ANTONYM

Amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, ruly,

submissive, tractable


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RESCUSCITATE

Word No. 438

MEANING

To revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness; also

revitalize

SYNONYM

Freshen, recharge, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regenerate,

rejuvenate, repair, restore, renew, revitalize, revive, revivify

ANTONYM


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RETICENT

Word No. 439

MEANING

Inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech: reserved

Restrained in expression, presentation or appearance

Reluctant

SYNONYM

Close, closemouthed, dark, secretive, tight-mouthed,

uncommunicative ANTONYM

Communicative, open


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RETRACT

Word No. 440

MEANING

To draw back or in

Take back, withdraw

Disavow

To draw or pull back

To recant or disavow something

SYNONYM Abnegate, forswear (also foreswear), recant, renege, renounce,

repeal, repudiate, abjure, take back, unsay, withdraw

ANTONYM

Adhere (to)


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RIFE

Word No. 441

MEANING

Prevalent especially to an increasing degree Abundant, common

Copiously supplied: aboundingusually used with with

SYNONYM

Abounding, abundant, awash, flush, fraught, lousy, replete,

swarming, teeming, thick, thronging

ANTONYM


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RIFT

Word No. 442

MEANING

Fissure, crevasse

Fault

A clear space or interval

Breach, estrangement

SYNONYM

Check, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, crack, split

ANTONYM


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RIVETING

Word No. 443

MEANING

Having the power to fix the attention: engrossing, fascinating

SYNONYM

Absorbing, arresting, consuming, engaging, engrossing,

enthralling, fascinating, gripping, immersing, intriguing, involving,

interesting

ANTONYM

Boring, drab, dry, dull, heavy, monotonous, tedious, uninteresting


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RUDIMENTARY

Word No. 444

MEANING

Consisting in first principles: fundamental Of a primitive kind

Very imperfectly developed or represented only by a vestige

SYNONYM

Crude, low, rude, primitive

ANTONYM

Advanced, developed, evolved, high, higher, late


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RUNIC

Word No. 445

MEANING

Any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by

Germanic peoples from about the 3rdto the 13thcenturies Mystery, magic

A Finnish or Old Norse poem

Poem, song

SYNONYM Lyric, poem, song, verse

ANTONYM


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SALIENT

Word No. 446

MEANING

Moving by leaps or springs: jumping

Jetting upward

Projecting beyond a line, surface, or level Standing out conspicuously: prominent; especially: of notable

significance

SYNONYM

Noticeable, arresting, bodacious, bold, brilliant, catchy, commanding,

conspicuous, dramatic, emphatic, eye-catching, flamboyant, grabby,kenspeckle [chiefly Scottish], marked, noisy, prominent, pronounced,remarkable, showy, splashy, striking

ANTONYM

Inconspicuous, unemphatic, unflamboyant, unnoticeable, unobtrusive,unremarkable, unshowy


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SAUNTER

Word No. 447

MEANING

To walk about in an idle or leisurely manner: stroll

SYNONYM

Amble, perambulate, ramble, hike, tramp, tromp

ANTONYM


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SCRUPLE

Word No. 448

MEANING

A unit of capacity equal to 1/24 Apothecaries ounce

A minute part or quantity: iota

An ethical consideration or principle that inhibits action

The quality or state of being scrupulous

Mental reservation

To show reluctance on grounds of conscience: hesitate SYNONYM

Qualm, compunction, misgiving

ANTONYM


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SECLUDED

Word No. 449

MEANING

Screened or hidden from view: sequestered

Living in seclusion: solitary


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SECRETE

Word No. 450

MEANING

To form and give off (a secretion)

To deposit or conceal in a hiding place

To appropriate secretly: absract

SYNONYM

Caching, hiding, concealment, stashing

ANTONYM Display, exhibition, exposure, parading, showing


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SEINE

Word No. 451

MEANING

A large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that

hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fishwhen its ends are pulled together or are draw ashore

SYNONYM

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SEMINAL

Word No. 452

MEANING

Of, relating to, or consisting of seed or semen

Containing or contributing the seeds of later development: creative,original

SYNONYM

Archetype, prototype

ANTONYM


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SEQUENTIAL

Word No. 453

MEANING

Of, relating to, or arranged in a sequence: serial

Following in sequence Relating to or based on a method of testing a statistical hypothesis that

involves examination of a sequence of samples for each of which thedecision is made to accept or reject the hypothesis or to continuesampling

SYNONYM Back-to-back, sequent, consecutive, straight, succeeding,

successional, successive

ANTONYM

Inconsecutive, inconsequent, nonconsecutive, nonsequential


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SERVILE

Word No. 454

MEANING

Of or befitting a slave or a menial position

Meanly or cravenly submissive: abject

SYNONYM

Base, humble, menial, abject, slavish

ANTONYM


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SEVER

Word No. 455

MEANING

To put or keep apart: divide; especially: to remove (as a part) by or

as if by cutting To become separated

SYNONYM

Break up, decouple, disassociate, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint,

dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, part, ramify, resolve,

separate, split, sunder, uncouple, unlink, unyoke

ANTONYM

Join, link, unify, unite


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SHARD

Word No. 456

MEANING

A piece or fragment of a brittle substance ;

broadly: a small piece or part: scrap < little shards of time andspace recorded by the cameras lens Rosalind Krauss>

Shell, scale; especially: elytron

Fragments of pottery vessels found on sites and in refuse deposits

where pottery-making peoples have lived

Highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediments

SYNONYM

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SHIRK

Word No. 457

MEANING

To go stealthily: sneak

To evade the performance of an obligation Avoid, evade

SYNONYM

Avoid, dodge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, finesse, get around,

scape, shake, escape, shuffle (out of), shun, weasel (out of) ANTONYM

Attend (to), remember


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SIMULATE

Word No. 458

MEANING

To give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent

to deceive: imitate To make a simulation of (as a physical system)

SYNONYM

ANTONYM


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SLUGGARD

Word No. 459

MEANING

A habitually lazy person

SYNONYM

Couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout, loafer,

lotus-eater, slouch, slug, slugabed, lazybones

ANTONYM

Doer, go-ahead, go-getter, hummer, hustler, rustler, self-starter


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SOJOURN

Word No. 460

MEANING

A temporary stay

To stay as a temporary resident: stop

SYNONYM

Visit, stay tarry

ANTONYM


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SOLICITUDE

Word No. 461

MEANING

The state of being concerned and anxious

Attentive care and protectiveness; also: an attitude of earnestconcern or attention

A cause of care or concernusually used in plural

SYNONYM

Agita, agitation, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness,

care, concern, concernment, disquiet, disquietude, fear, nervosity,nervousness, perturbation, anxiety, sweat, unease, uneasiness,worry

ANTONYM

Unconcern


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SPECIOUS

Word No. 462

MEANING

Obsolete: showy

Having deceptive attraction or allure Having a false look of truth or genuineness: sophistic

SYNONYM

Beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory,fallacious, false, misleading, deceptive

ANTONYM

Aboveboard, forthright, nondeceptive, straightforward


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SPECTRUM

Word No. 463

MEANING

A continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as bypassage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged inorder

Any various continua that resemble a color spectrum in consisting of anordered arrangement by a particular characteristic (as frequency or energy): as(1): electromagnetic spectrum (2): radio spectrum (3): the range of frequenciesof sound waves (4): mass spectrum

The representation (as a plot) of a spectrum

The continuous sequence or range

Kinds of organisms associated with a particular situation (as an environment) A range of effectiveness against pathogenic organisms

SYNONYM

Diapason, gamut, scale, range, spread, stretch

ANTONYM


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SPORADIC

Word No. 464

MEANING

Occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances

SYNONYM

Aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic (also

episodical), erratic, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spasmodic,

spastic, fitful, spotty, unsteady

ANTONYM

Constant, continous, habitual, periodic, regular, repeated, steady


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SPURIOUS

Word No. 433

MEANING

Of illegitimate birth: bastard

Outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having itsgenuine qualities: false

Of falsified or erroneously attributed origin: forged

Of a deceitful nature or quality

SYNONYM

Bogus, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer,sham, snide, counterfeit, unauthentic

ANTONYM

Authentic, bona fide, genuine, real, unfaked


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STAGNANT

Word No. 466

MEANING

Not flowing in a current or stream

Stale

Not advancing or developing

SYNONYM

ANTONYM


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STARK

Word No. 467

MEANING

Rigid in or as if in death

Rigidly conforming (as to a pattern or doctrine): absolute

Archaic: strong, robust Utter, sheer

Barren, desolate

Having few or no ornaments: bare

Harsh, blunt


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STASIS

Word No. 468

MEANING

A slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid or semifluid

Slowing of the current of circulating blood Reduced motility of the intestines with retention of feces

A state of static balance or equilibrium: stagnation

A state or period of stability during which little or no evolutionary

change in a lineage occurs

SYNONYM Counterpoise, equilibration, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, balance

ANTONYM

Disequilibration, disequilibrium, imbalance, nonequilibrium, unbalance


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STEREOTYPE

Word No. 469

MEANING

To make a stereotype from

To repeat without variation: make hackneyed

To develop a mental stereotype about

A plate cast from a printing surface

Something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially: astandardized mental picture that is held in common by members ofa group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced

attitude, or uncritical judgment

SYNONYM

Concept, conception, generality, notion, generalization

ANTONYM


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STIPPLE

Word No. 470

MEANING

To engrave by means of dots and flicks

To make by small short touches (as of paint or ink) that together

produce an even or softly graded shadow To apply (as paint) by repeated small touches

Speckle, fleck

Production of gradation of light and shade in graphic art by stippling

small points, larger dots or longer strokes; also: an effect produced

in this way

SYNONYM

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STRATAWord No. 471

MEANING

A bed or layer artificially made

A sheetlike mass of sedimentary rock or earth one kind lying between beds ofother kinds

A region of the sear or atmosphere that is analogous to a stratum of the earth

A layer of tissue A layer in which archaeological material (as artifacts, skeleton, and dwelling

remains) is found on excavation

A part of a historical or sociological series representing a period or a stage ofdevelopment

A socioeconomic level of society comprising persons of the same or similarstatus especially with regard to education or culture

One of a series of layers, levels or gradations in an ordered system

A statistical subpopulation

SYNONYM

Caste, estate, folk, gentry, order, class

ANTONYM


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STRIATE

Word No. 472

MEANING

To mark with striations or striae

SYNONYM

ANTONYM


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SUBJECTIVEWord No. 433

MEANING

Of, relating to, or constituting a subject

Obsolete: of, relating to, or characteristic of one that is a subject ; especially in lack of freedom ofaction or in submissiveness

Being or relating to a grammatical subject; especially: nominative

Of or relating to the essential being of that which has substance, qualities, attributes, or relations

Characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind:phenomenal

Relating to or being experience or knowledge as conditioned by personal mental characteristicsor states

Peculiar to a particular individual: personal


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SUBORDINATE

Word No. 433

MEANING

Placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position: inferior

Submissive to or controlled by authority

Of relating to, or constituting a clause that functions as a noun, adjective, oradverb

Subordinating

One who stands in order or rank below another: one that is subordinate

To make subject or subservient

To treat as of less value or importance

SYNONYM

Inferior, junior, less, lower, minor, smaller, lesser

ANTONYM

Greater, higher, major, more, primary, prime, senior, superior, superordinate


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SUCCINCT

Word No. 475

MEANING

Being girded

Close-fitting

Marked by compact precise expression without wasted words

SYNONYM

Concise, aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact,compendious, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic,

laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sentenious, concise, monosyllabic,pithy, sententious, concise, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail

ANTONYM

Circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling,verbose, windy, wordy


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SUPERFLUITY

Word No. 476

MEANING

Excess, oversupply

Something unnecessary or superfluous Immoderate and especially luxurious living, habits or desires

SYNONYM

Amenity, comfort, extra, frill, indulgence, luxury

ANTONYM Basic, essential, fundamental, must, necessity, requirement


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SUPERFLUOUS

Word No. 477

MEANING

Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary: extra

Not needed: unnecessary Obsolete: marked by wastefulness: extravagant

SYNONYM

Excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, spare, supernumenary,

surplus

ANTONYM


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SUPERSEDE

Word No. 478

MEANING

To cause to be set aside

To force out of use as inferior To take the place or position of

To displace in favor of another

SYNONYM

Replace ANTONYM


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SUPPRESS

Word No. 479

MEANING

To put down by authority or force: subdue

To keep from public knowledge: as

To keep secret To stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of


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SURLY

Word No. 480

MEANING

Menacing or threatening in appearance

Obsolete: arrogant, imperious Irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner: crabbed

SYNONYM

Glum, mopey, pouting, pouty, sullen, sulky

ANTONYM Amiable, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered


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SUSCEPTIBLE

Word No. 481

MEANING

Capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation Open, subject, or unresistant to some stimulus, influence, or

agency

Impressionable, responsive

SYNONYM

Endangered, exposed, open, sensitive, subject (to), liable,

vulnerable

ANTONYM

Insusceptible, invulnerable, unexposed, unsusceptible


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SYLVAN

Word No. 482

MEANING

One that frequents groves or woods

Living or located in the woods or forest Of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods or forest

Made, shaped, or formed of woods or trees

Abounding in woods, groves, or trees: wooded

SYNONYM

ANTONYM


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SYNCHRONOUS

Word No. 484

MEANING

Happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time

Recurring or operating at exactly the same periods

Involving or indicating synchronism

Having the same period; also: having the same period and phase

Geostationary

Of, used in, or being digital communication (as between computers) in which acommon timing signal is established that dictates when individual bits can betransmitted and which allows for very high rates of data transfer

SYNONYM

Coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coextensive, coincident,coincidental, concurrent, contemporaneous, coterminous, simultaneous,synchronic, contemporary

ANTONYM

Asynchronous, noncontemporary, nonsimultaneous, nonsynchronous


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SYNTHESIS

Word No. 484

MEANING

The composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole

The production of a substance by the union of chemical elements, groups, orsimpler compounds or by the degradation of a complex compound

The combining of often diverse conceptions into a coherent whole; also: thecomplex so formed

Deductive reasoning

The dialectic combination of thesis and antithesis into a higher stage of truth

The frequent and systematic use of inflected forms as characteristic device of alanguage

SYNONYM

Admixture, alloy, amalgam, amalgamation, cocktail, combination, composite,compound, conflation, emulsion, fusion, intermixture, meld, mix, mixture, blend

ANTONYM


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TABLEAU

Word No. 480

MEANING

A graphic description or representation: picture A striking or artistic grouping: arrangement, scene

A depiction of a scene usually presented on a stage by silent and

motionless costumed participants

SYNONYM

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TACIT

Word No. 486

MEANING

Expressed or carried on without words or speech Implied or indicated (as by an act or by silence) but not actually

expressed

SYNONYM

Implied, implicit, unexpressed, unspoken, unvoiced, wordless

ANTONYM

Explicit, express, expressed, spoken, stated, voiced


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TANGENTIAL

Word No. 487

MEANING

Of, relating to, or of the nature of a tangent

Acting along or lying in a tangent Divergent, digressive

Touching lightly: incidental, peripheral ;

also: of little relevance

SYNONYM

ANTONYM


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TANTALIZE

Word No. 488

MEANING

To tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to

the view but continually keeping it out of reach SYNONYM

ANTONYM


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TAPESTRY

Word No. 489

MEANING

A heavy hand woven reversible textile used for hangings, curtains,

and upholstery and characterized by complicated pictorial designs A nonreversible imitation of tapestry used chiefly for upholstery

Embroidery on canvas resembling woven tapestry

Something resembling tapestry (as in complexity or richness of

design)

SYNONYM

ANTONYM


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TAWDRY

Word No. 490

MEANING

Cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality; also: ignoble

Ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented

Marked by extravagance or tasteless showiness: outlandish ; also exceptional

SYNONYM

Gaudy, flamboyant, flaring, garish, glitzy, loud, noisy, ostentatious,razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank (or swanky)

ANTONYM

Conservative, quiet, understated, unflamboyant, unflashy


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TEMPERAMENTWord No. 491

MEANING

A constitution of a substance, body, or organism with respect to themixture or balance of its elements, qualities, or parts: makeup

Climate, temperature

The peculiar or distinguishing mental or physical character determined by

the relative proportions of the humors according to medieval physiology Characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response

Extremely high sensibility; especially: excessive sensitiveness orirritability

The act or process of tempering or modifying: adjustment, compromise

The slight modification of acoustically pure intervals in tuning a musicalinstrument; especially: modification that produces a set of 12 equallyspaced tones in the octave

SYNONYM

Grain, nature, temper, disposition

ANTONYM


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TENTATIVE

Word No. 492

MEANING

Not fully worked out or developed

Hesitant, uncertain SYNONYM

Conditional, contingent (on or upon), subject (to), dependent

ANTONYM

Independent, unconditional


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TENUOUS

Word No. 493

MEANING

Not dense: rare

Not thick: slender

Having little substance or strength: flimsy, weak

Shaky

SYNONYM

Thin, bony (also boney), fatless, lean, lithe, skinny, slender, slim,spare, svelte

ANTONYM

Chubby, corpulent, fat, gross, obese, overweight, plump, portly,rotund, tubby


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TEPID

Word No. 494

MEANING

Moderately warm: lukewarm

Lacking in passion, force, or zest Marked by an absence of enthusiasm or conviction

SYNONYM

Halfhearted, lukewarm, uneager, unenthusiastic

ANTONYM

Eager, enthusiastic, hearty, keen, passionate, warm, wholhearted


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TERSE

Word No. 495

MEANING

Smoothly elegant: polished

Using few words: devoid of superfluity ; also:

short, brusque

SYNONYM

Aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious,crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic,monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic,

concise, thumbnail

ANTONYM

Circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling,verbose, windy, wordy


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THWART

Word No. 496

MEANING

To run counter to so as to effectively oppose or baffle: contravene

To oppose successfully: defeat the hopes or aspirations of To pass through or across

Situated or placed across something else

SYNONYM

Frustrate, foil, baffle, balk ANTONYM


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TIMOROUS

Word No. 497

MEANING

Of a timid disposition: fearful Expressing or suggesting timidity

SYNONYM

Fainthearted, fearful, fearsome, mousy (or mousey), scary, skittish,

timid, shy, tremulous

ANTONYM

Adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, daring, dashing,

gutsy, hardy, venturesome, venturous


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TIRADE

Word No. 498

MEANING

A protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative or

harshly censorious language SYNONYM

Diatribe, harangue, jeremiad, philippic, rant

ANTONYM


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TOADY

Word No. 499

MEANING

One who flatters in the hope of gaining favors: sycophant

SYNONYM Apple-polisher, bootlicker, brownnoser, fawner, flunky (also flunkey

or flunkie), lickspittle, suck-up, sycophant

ANTONYM


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TORQUE

Word No. 500

MEANING

A usually metal collar or neck chain worn by the ancient Gauls,Germans and Britons

A force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion ; also: ameasure of the effectiveness of such a force that consists of theproduct of the force and the perpendicular distance fro the line ofaction of the force to the axis of rotation

A turning or twisting force To impart torque to: to cause to twist (as about an axis)

SYNONYM

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TORTUOUS

Word No. 501

MEANING

Marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns: winding Marked by devious or indirect tactics: crooked, tricky

Circuitous, involved

SYNONYM

Bending, crazy, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, devious,

serpentine, sinuous, crooked, twisted, twisting, winding, windy

ANTONYM

Straight, straightaway


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TOUT

Word No. 502

MEANING

To spy on: watch

British: to spy out information about (as a racing stable or horse)

To give tips or solicit bets on (a racehorse)

To solicit, peddle, or persuade importunately

To make much of: promote, talk up

To solicit patronage

Chiefly British: to spy on racehorses in training to gain information for betting

To give a tip or solicit bets on a racehorse

SYNONYM

Ballyhoo, blow up, crack up, cry up, glorify, trumpet, tub-thump

ANTONYM

Knock, pan, slam


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TRANSCENDENTALWord No. 503

MEANING

Transcendent

Supernatural

Abstruse, abstract

Of or relating to transcendentalism

Incapable of being the root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients

Being, involving, or representing a function (as sin x, log x, e raised to x) thatcannot be expressed by a finite number of algebraic operations

In Kantian philosophy: of or relating to experience as determined by the mindsmakeup

Transcending experience but not human knowledge SYNONYM

Metaphysical, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, transcendent,supernatural, unearthly

ANTONYM

natural


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TRANSPOSEWord No. 504

MEANING

To change in form or nature: transform

To render into another language, style or manner of expression: translate

To transfer from one place or period to another: shift To change the relative place or normal order of: alter the sequence of

To write or perform (a musical composition) in a different key

To bring (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other with

change of sign A matrix formed from another matrix by interchanging the rows and columns

SYNONYM

reverse

ANTONYM


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TRAVESTY

Word No. 505

MEANING

To make a travesty of: parody

A burlesque translation or literary or artistic imitation usuallygrotesquely incongruous in style, treatment, or subject matter

A debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation

SYNONYM

Caricature, cartoon, farce, joke, parody, sham, mockery

ANTONYM

Meiosis, understatement


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TRITE

Word No. 506

MEANING

Hackneyed or boring form much use: not fresh or original

SYNONYM Banal, clich, cliched, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney,

hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stereotyped,

threadbare, timeworn, tired, stale, well-worn

ANTONYM

Fresh, new, novel, original, uncliched, unhackneyed


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TRIVIAL

Word No. 507

MEANING

Commonplace, ordinary

Of little worth or importance

Relating to or being the mathematically simplest case; specifically:characterized by having all variables equal to zero

SYNONYM

Fiddling, foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable,insignificant, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory,slight, small, small-fry, trifling, unimportant

ANTONYM

Big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful,momentous, significant, substantial, unfrivolous, weighty


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TROUPE

Word No. 508

MEANING

Company, troop; especially: a group of theatrical performers

SYNONYM Troop, company

ANTONYM


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TRUCULENT

Word No. 509

MEANING

Feeling or displaying ferocity: cruel, savage

Deadly, destructive

Scathingly harsh: vitriolic Aggressively self-assertive: belligerent

SYNONYM

Aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, brawly,chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant,

disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome,scrappy, belligerent, warlike

ANTONYM

Nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful,unbelligerent, uncombative, uncontentious


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TRYST

Word No. 510

MEANING

An agreement (as between lovers) to meet

An appointed meeting or meeting place SYNONYM

Appointment, assignation, date, rendezvous, engagement

ANTONYM


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TURBID

Word No. 511

MEANING

Thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment

Heavy with smoke or mist Deficient in clarity or purity: foul, muddy

Characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions)

SYNONYM

Muddy, riley, roiled, cloudy

ANTONYM

Clear, crystal clear, crystalline


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TYRO

Word No. 512

MEANING

Usage: often attributive

A beginner in learning: novice SYNONYM

Abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, babe, colt, cub, fledgling,

freshman, greenhorn, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, novice,

novitiate, punk, recruit, rook, rookie, tenderfoot, beginner, virgin

ANTONYM

Old hand, old-timer, vet, veteran


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UBIQUITOUS

Word No. 513

MEANING

Existing or being everywhere at the same time: constantly

encountered: widespread

SYNONYM

Common or garden [chiefly British], commonplace, everyday,

familiar, frequent, garden-variety, household, ordinary, quotidian,

routine, common, usual

ANTONYM

Extraordinary, infrequent, rare, seldom, uncommon, unfamiliar,

unusual


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UNASSAILABLE

Word No. 514

MEANING

Not assailable: not liable to doubt, attack or question

SYNONYM

Hallowed, holy, inviolable, sacrosanct, sacred, untouchable

ANTONYM


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UNEQUIVOCAL

Word No. 515

MEANING

Leaving no doubt: clear, unambiguous

Unquestionable SYNONYM

Apparent, bald, bald-faced, barefaced, bright-line, broad, clear-cut,crystal clear, decided, distinct, evident, lucid, luculent, luminous,manifest, non-ambiguous, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patentpellucid, perspicuous, plain, ringing, straightforward, transparent,

unambiguous, unambivalent, clear, unmistakable

ANTONYM

Ambiguous, clouded, cryptic, dark, enigmatic (also enigmatical),equivocal, indistinct, mysterious, nonobvious, obfuscated, obscure,unapparent, unclarified, unclear, unclouded


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UNKEMPT

Word No. 516

MEANING

Not combed

Deficient in order or neatness ; also: rough, unpolished

SYNONYM

Chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled(or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, littered, messed, muddled, mussed, mussy, pell-

mell, rumpled, sloppy, topsy-turvy, tousled, tumbled, messy, untidy,upside-down

ANTONYM

Bandbox, crisp, kempt, neat, neatened, ordered, orderly, organized,shipshape, snug, tidied, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-ordered


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UNPREPOSSESSING

Word No. 517

MEANING

Archaic: not creating prejudice

Not tending to create a favorable impression: unattractive SYNONYM

ANTONYM


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UNSCRUPULOUS

Word No. 518

MEANING

Not scrupulous: unprincipled

SYNONYM Cutthroat, immoral, Machiavellian, unconscionable, unethical,

unprincipled

ANTONYM

Ethical, moral, principled, scrupulous


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URBANE

Word No. 519

MEANING

Notably polite or polished in manner

SYNONYM Debonair, smooth sophisticated, svelte, suave

ANTONYM

Boorish, churlish, classless, clownish, loutish, uncouth


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VANQUISH

Word No. 520

MEANING

To overcome in battle: subdue completely

To defeat in conflict or contest To gain mastery over (an emotion, passion, or temptation)

SYNONYM

Conquer, dominate, overpower, pacify, subdue, subject, subjugate,

subordinate, vanquish

ANTONYM

Lose (to)


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VAPID

Word No. 521

MEANING

Lacking liveliness, tang, briskness, or force: flat, dull

SYNONYM

Insipid, dead, flat, flavorless, savorless, tasteless, unsavory

ANTONYM

Flavorful, flavorsome, sapid, savory (also savoury), tasteful, tasty


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VARIANCE

Word No. 522

MEANING

The fact, quality, or state of being variable or variant: difference, variation

The fact or state of being in disagreement: dissension, dispute

A disagreement between two parts of the same legal proceeding that must beconsonant

A license to do some act contrary to the usual rule

The square of the standard deviation

SYNONYM

Conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension (alsodissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division,friction, infighting, inharmony, schism, strife, discord, war, warfare

ANTONYM

Accord, agreement, concord, concordance, harmony, peace


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VERACITY

Word No. 523

MEANING

Devotion to the truth: truthfulness

Power of conveying or perceiving truth Conformity with truth or fact: accuracy

Something true

SYNONYM

Integrity, probity, truthfulness, honesty, verity

ANTONYM

Deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, lying, mendaciousness,

mendacity, untruthfulness


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VERBIAGE

Word No. 524

MEANING

A profusion of words usually of little or obscure content

Manner of expressing oneself in words: diction

SYNONYM

Circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness,logorrhea, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy,

verbalism, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness

ANTONYM


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VERNACULARWord No. 525

MEANING

Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary,cultured, or foreign language

Of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region,or country

Of, relating to, or being the normal spoken form of a language

Applied to a plant or animal in the common native speech distinguished from

the Latin nomenclature of scientific classification Of, relating to, or characteristic of a period, place, or group; especially: of,

relating to, or being the common building style of a period or place

A vernacular language, expression, or mode of expression: an expression ormode of expression that occurs in ordinary speech rather than formal writing

The mode of expression of a group or class

SYNONYM

Conversational, informal, nonformal, nonliterary, unbookish, unliterary,colloquial, vulgar

ANTONYM

Bookish, formal, learned, literary


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VESTIGE

Word No. 526

MEANING

A trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (as an ancient city or

a condition or practice) vanished or lost: smallest quantity or trance

Footprint

A bodily part or organ that is small and degenerate or imperfectly

developed in comparison to one more fully developed in an earlier

stage of the individual, in a past generation, or in closely related

forms

SYNONYM

Trace, echo, ghost, relic, shadow

ANTONYM


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VIABLE Word No. 527

MEANING

Capable of living, especially: having attained such form anddevelopment as to be normally capable of surviving outside themothers womb

Capable of growing or developing

Capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately

Capable of existence and development as an independent unit

Having a reasonable chance of succeeding

Financially sustainable

SYNONYM

Achievable, attainable, doable, feasible, practicable, realizable,possible, workable

ANTONYM

Hopeless, impossible, impracticable, infeasible, nonviable,unattainable, undoable, unfeasible, unrealizable, unviable,unworkable


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VIE

Word No. 528

MEANING

Archaic: wager, hazard; also: to exchange in rivalry: match

To strive for superiority: contend, compete SYNONYM

Battle, contend, face off, fight, race, rival, compete

ANTONYM


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VIGILANT

Word No. 529

MEANING

Alertly watchful especially to avoid danger

SYNONYM Argus-eyed, attentive, awake, observant, open-eyed, tenty (also

tentie) [Scottish], alert, watchful, wide-awake

ANTONYM

Asleep


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VILIFY

Word No. 530

MEANING

To lower in estimation or importance

To utter slanderous and abusive statements against: defame SYNONYM

Malign, bad [slang], bitchy, catty, cruel, despiteful, malevolent,

malicious, hateful, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vicious, virulent

ANTONYM

Benevolent, benign, benignant, loving, unmalicious


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VIM

Word No. 531

MEANING

Robust energy and enthusiasm

SYNONYM Beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive, dynamism, energy, esprit, gas,

get-up-and-go, ginger, go, gusto, hardihood, juice, life, moxie,

oomph, pep, punch, sap, snap, starch, verve, vigor, vinegar, vitality,

zing, zip

ANTONYM Lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidity

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VINDICTIVE

Word No. 532

MEANING

Disposed to seek revenge: vengeful

Intended for or involving revenge

Intended to cause anguish or hurt: spiteful

SYNONYM

Revengeful, vengeful

ANTONYM

VISCOUS


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VISCOUS

Word No. 533

MEANING

Viscid

Having or characterized by viscosity

SYNONYM

Ropy (also ropey), syrupy, viscid, thick

ANTONYM

Runny, soupy, thin, watery

VITUPERATE


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VITUPERATE

Word No. 534

MEANING

To abuse or censure severely or abusively: berate

To use harsh condemnatory language

SYNONYM

Abuse, assail, bash, belabor, blast, castigate, excoriate, jump (on),

lambaste (or lambast), potshot, savage, scathe, slam, trash, attack

ANTONYM

VIVACIOUS


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VIVACIOUS

Word No. 535

MEANING

Lively in temper, conduct, or spirit: sprightly

SYNONYM Lively, active, airy, animate, animated, bouncing, brisk, energetic,

frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, kinetic, mettlesome, peppy, perky, pert,

pizzazzy (or pizazzy), racy, snappy, spanking, sparky, spirited,

sprightly, springy, vital, lively, zippy

ANTONYM Dead, inactive, inanimate, lackadaisical, languid, languishin,

languorous, leaden, lifeless, limp, listless, spiritless, vapid

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VOLATILE MEANING Readily vaporizable at a relatively low temperature

Flying or having the power to fly Lighthearted, lively

Easily aroused

Tending to erupt into violence: explosive

Unable to hold the attention fixed because of an inherent lightness orfickleness of disposition

Characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change

Difficult to capture or hold permanently: evanescent, transitory

SYNONYM

Capricious, changeable, changeful, flickery, fluctuating, fluid,inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, skittish, temperamental,uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, fickle

ANTONYM

Certain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, predictable,settled, stable, stationary, steady, unchangeable, unchanging,unvarying

VOLUBLE


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VOLUBLE

Word No. 537

MEANING

Easily rolling or turning: rotating

Characterized by ready or rapid speech: glib, fluent

SYNONYM

Talkative, blabby, chatty, conversational, gabby, garrulous,

loquacious, motor mouthed, mouthy, talky

ANTONYM

Closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped,

uncommunicative

WELTER


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WELTER

Word No. 538

MEANING

Writhe, toss; also: wallow

To rise and fall or toss about in or with waves

To become deeply sunk, soaked, or involved

To be in turmoil

A state of wild disorder: turmoil

A chaotic mass or jumble

SYNONYM

ANTONYM

WHIMSY


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WHIMSY

Word No. 539

MEANING

Whim, caprice

The quality or state of being whimsical or fanciful

A fanciful or fantastic device, object, or creation especially in writing

or art

SYNONYM

Bee, caprice, crank, fancy, freak, humor, kink, maggot, megrim,notion, vagary, vagrancy, whim (also whimsey)

ANTONYM

ZEALOT


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ZEALOT

Word No. 540

MEANING

Capitalized: a member of a fanatical sect arising in Judea during

the first century A.D. and militantly opposing the Roman domination

of Palestine

A zealous person; especially: a fanatical partisan

SYNONYM

Crusader, fanatic, ideologue (also idealogue), militant, partisan(also partizan), red hot, true believer

ANTONYM

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