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Acquiesce

(V) to accept something reluctantly without protest

Cacophony

(N) a harsh mixture of loud sounds

Frugal

(Adj) careful with money; spending very little

Stingy

(Adj) unwilling to give or spend

Revert

(V) to go back to an earlier state

Withhold

(V) to refuse to give something

Pretext

(N) a false reason given to hide the real one

Reprisal

(N) an act of revenge for a wrong

Transpose

(V) to switch the order or position of two things

Translucent

(Adj) letting light through but not fully clear

Distort

(V) to twist out of shape; to give a false picture of

Betray

(V) to be disloyal to; to reveal something unintentionally

Assent

(N) agreement or approval

Disingenuous

(Adj) pretending to be sincere when you are not

Dispel

(V) to drive away a feeling or a mistaken belief

Indeterminate

(Adj) not fixed or exactly known

Rehabilitate

(V) to restore someone or something to good condition

Ruthless

(Adj) showing no pity in pursuing a goal

Tertiary

(Adj) third in order or importance

Prevail

(V) to win out in the end; to be widespread

Scheme

(N) a plan, often a clever or dishonest one

Beneficiary

(N) a person who receives a benefit

Forage

search for food

Patent

1. (Adj) clear and obvious 2. (N) an exclusive right to an invention

Pinnacle

(N) the greatest achievement someone reaches

Profusion

(N) a rich supply, more than expected

Promulgate

(V) to announce a rule or belief officially and widely

Recapitulate

(V) to sum up the main points again

Typify

(V) to be a typical example of something

Utilitarian

(Adj) designed for usefulness rather than beauty

Retrieve

(V) to get something back

Composure

(N) calm control over your feelings

Excise

(V) to cut out or remove a part

Consternation

(N) shock and dismay at something unexpected

Construe

(V) to interpret something in a particular way

Contrive

(V) to create or arrange something with obvious effort

Intransigent

(Adj) refusing to compromise in an argument

Obtuse

(Adj) slow to understand; blunt rather than sharp

Predilection

(N) a strong preference for something

Standstill

(N) a complete stop

Apocalypse

(N) a total destruction of the world; a catastrophic event

Flourish

(V) to grow strongly and successfully

Auxiliary

(Adj) giving extra support; secondary

Degenerate

(V) to get worse; to decline into a lower state

Extol

(V) to praise something with great excitement

Indecipherable

(Adj) impossible to read or make sense of

Leeway

(N) freedom to act within limits

Oblique

(Adj) indirect, not stated openly; slanting

Refurbish

(V) to clean up and repair something old

Regenerate

(V) to grow back or renew

Renovate

(V) to repair and modernize a building

Repertoire

(N) the full set of works or skills someone has ready

Resolute

(Adj) firm and determined

Restitution

(N) the return of something lost, or payment for it

Stereotype

(N) an oversimplified fixed idea about a group

Surveillance

(N) close watch kept over someone or something

Versatile

(Adj) able to do many different things well

Formality

(N) strict attention to form and rules; a routine step

Pigment

(N) a substance that gives color

Harbor

(V) to keep a thought or feeling secretly; to give shelter to

Nectar

(N) the sweet liquid produced by flowers

Outlook

(N) a view of what is likely to happen; a point of view

Overshadow

(V) to make something seem less important

Disquieting

(Adj) making you feel worried or uneasy

Cagey

(Adj) careful not to reveal what you know

Placid

(Adj) calm and not easily upset

Perceptive

(Adj) quick to notice and understand things

Punitive

(Adj) meant to punish

Understate

(V) to describe something as smaller or less important than it is

Aromatic

(Adj) having a strong pleasant smell

Catalyze

(V) to cause a change or speed up a process

Repertory

(N) the set of works a company is ready to perform

Archetype

(N) the original model that others are based on

Milieu

(N) the setting or social surroundings someone lives in

Transience

(N) the quality of lasting only a short time

Diminutive

(Adj) extremely small

Humane

(Adj) kind and caring toward people and animals

Sentimental

(Adj) based on feelings rather than reason; overly emotional

Perpetual

(Adj) never ending; going on forever

Adjoin

(V) to be next to and touching something

Rationalize

(V) to invent reasons to justify something

Subtlety

(N) a small detail that is hard to notice

Temporal

(Adj) relating to time; lasting only for a time

Fictitious

(Adj) invented and not real

Surpass

(V) to go beyond or do better than

Replicate

(V) to copy something exactly; to repeat an experiment

Theoretical

(Adj) based on ideas rather than practice or testing

Incremental

(Adj) happening in small steps

Complement

(V) to go well with something and make it complete

Differentiate

(V) to see or show the difference between things

Correlate

(V) to have a connection with something else

Contentious

(Adj) causing arguments; eager to argue

Inane

(Adj) silly and without meaning

Anomalous

(Adj) odd; not fitting the usual pattern

Iconoclasm

(N) the act of attacking beliefs or traditions people hold dear