Magoosh Vocabulary Study Set
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A comprehensive collection of vocabulary terms, definitions, and usage notes based on the Magoosh study materials.
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Pariah
Outcast
Unnerving
Where one loses confidence
Ravenous
Very hungry
Corollary
A consequence of something
Artifice
Clever tricks / ingenious strategies
Histrionic
An exaggeration / overly theatrical and emotional / An attention seeker
Antics
Silly behaviour / Grotesque (unnatural)
Endemic
Means native / origins of something; it only becomes "widespread" if it is a Pandemic
Flag
To weaken and lose energy
Capitulate
To surrender and stop resistance
Reproach
To criticize
Grandiloquent
Pompous / Show-off / Aggrandizing
Malinger
To avoid work
Celerity
Quickness in motion
Adjudicate
To judge something or officiate something
Moment
Something of importance / A consequence / Corollary
Solicitous / Solicitude
Anxious to care for something / Overly attentive
Epigram
A witty saying / A pithy statement
Jingoist
An overly patriotic person / Hubris for one's own country
Disinterested
Impartial and unbiased / Dispassionate and objective
Becoming
Suitable and apropos
Artless
- Without deception / Simple and straightforward (contrived) / 2. Lacking skill
Hubris
Excessive pride
Chauvinism
Extremely biased / Blind loyalty / An extreme emotion or proclivity
Enthrall
To captivate and spellbound
Oblique
Indirect / Implied / Not straightforward
Check
To hold back and restrain before things get out of hand
Empiricism
Knowledge is based on experience, observable data, and practice (rather than theory)
Implicate
To convey meaning (imply) / To show or suggest / To associate
Intimation
A subtle implication / Indirect suggestion / The noun version of implicate
Appreciable
Something noticeable usually in volume or size
Dissipate
To waste something or scatter
Artlessness
Innocence and sincerity / Lacking grace since they are naïve
Imitable
Can be copied (shortened version of imitate)
Scrupulous
Extremely careful and making sure to do things correctly / Someone with a high moral compass
Flippant
Disrespectful / Treating a serious situation inappropriately
Squelch
To quell something (typically done by dictators)
Discrete
Separate / Identifiable as something else
Discreet
Quiet and subtle
Forthcoming
Cooperative and available
Provisional
Something not final nor tentative
Improvident
Foolish (as in not being careful)
Preempt
To replace
Effervescent
Literally bubbly / Personality of being upbeat
Base
Adjective: Lacking principle
Dispassionate
Objective and disinterested
Credulity
A tendency to believe things too quickly with few or without evidence
Creditable
Gen Z slang meaning "MID"
Forthright
Frank / Honest in speaking
Meander
To wander around
Apogee
Summit or the highest point
Complaisant
Cheerfully obedient
Ossify
To harden and become firm
Incontrovertible
Indisputable (meaning Not Controversial)
Tyro
Beginner
Loath
Reluctant to do something
Inviolable
Sacred
Debase
To reduce the value of something
Tact
Proper behavior / Decorum
Unseemly
Improper
Enmity
Hate
Disenfranchise
Deprive of voting or of power
Conflagration
A massive fire / An abrupt negative event
Frustrate
To prevent someone from achieving a goal / To upset someone
Surreptitious
Stealthy and quick (in a clandestine manner)
Sardonic
A mocking tone
Dispatch
Speedy and efficient
Dovetail
Fit together tightly; snug and interlocking
Denouement
Resolution of a story / A moral in a story
Countermand
Reverse of a command / To take back a command
Catholic
Universal as in broadminded / Everywhere
Fawn
Kissass / Obsequious
Apothegm
A short saying / A quote
Lacerate
To distress someone
Precipitate
A hasty action
Machinate
To scheme and plan
Nadir
Lowest point / rock bottom
Inure
Harden / Get used to something / Jaded
Puissant
Powerful / Influential
Halcyon
Peaceful and placid