English Vocabulary Semester Exam

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Adulterate
render (something) poorer in quality by adding other substances, typically an inferior one.
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Affinity
a spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.
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Animosity
strong hostility
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Adroit
clever or skillful in using the hands or mind
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Ambiguous
(of language) open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning.
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Antithesis
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
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Brevity
shortness of time
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Boorish
an unrefined, ill-mannered person.
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Beguile
charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.
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Carcinogen
a substance capable of causing cancer in living tissue.
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Chimerical
imaginary; not real
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Coalesce
come together to form one mass or whole.
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Debacle
a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.
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Eschew
deliberately avoid using; abstain from.
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Endemic
(of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
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Ennui
a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.
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Eclectic
deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.
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Flout
openly disregard (a rule, law or convention
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Flaunt
display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance.
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Factious
relating or inclined to a state of faction.
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Garrulous
excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
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Gloat
contemplate or dwell on one's own success or another's misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure.
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Hackneyed
(of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite.
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Hiatus
a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process.
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Hallow
honor as holy