G10 ENGLISH SPELLING POST-TEST 1Q

abstemious

moderate in eating or drinking

acumen

ability to judge well

auspicious

favored by fortune; lucky

belie

to show to be false; contradicting

bellicose

aggressively hostile

bowdlerize

to expurgate/remove a written work...

chicanery

trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry

churlish

difficult to work with; rude

circumlocution

use of more words than necessary to express an idea

deciduous

not permanent

deleterious

harmful

diffident

lacking self-confidence

enervate

to weaken; deprive the force of

equinox

The time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth

echelon

a level of worthiness, achievement or reputation

facetious

not meant to be taken seriously or literally

fatuous

foolish or insane, silly especially in an unconscious, complacent manner

feckless

- ineffective; incompetent; futile

- having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.

gauche

someone who is socially clumsy

hegemony

leadership or dominance