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| Acuity | (n.) sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses). Syn: keenness, acuteness. Ant: dullness, abtuseness. Ex. The ______ of most people's hearing diminishes as they grow older. |
| Delineate | (v.) to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorally. Syn: depict, picture, render. Ex. The architects will ______ the main features of their plan at the next client meeting. |
| Depraved | (adj.) marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles. Syn: perverted, degenerate, vicious, corrupt. Ant: moral, virtuous, upright, uncorrupted. Ex. Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is about a ______ man whose portrait reveals his wickedness. |
| Enervate | (v.) to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring. Syn: impair, cripple, paralyze. Ant: invigorate, strengthen, buttress. Ex. Unfortunately, the great musician's mind was ______ by disease in the last decade of her life. |
| Esoteric | (adj.) intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret. Syn: occult, cryptic, arcane, recondite. Ant: accessible, comprehensible, intelligible. Ex. The fraternity developed a set of ______ rites that had to be performed by anyone seeking membership. |
| Fecund | (adj.) fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive. Syn: fertile, teeming, prolific. Ant: infertile, barren, unproductive. Ex. The remarkably ______ mind of Albert Einstein produced theories that revolutionized the science of physics. |
| Fiat | (n>0 an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness. Syn: edict, dictum, ukase. Ex. The ruler instituted several new _______. |
| Figment | (n.) a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion. Syn: creation, invention, fancy. Ex. The silhouette of a man on the porch was a mere ______ of your overheated imagination. |
| Garner | (v.) to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use. Syn: collect, accumulate, accrue. Ant: scatter, squander, waste, dissipate. Ex. Over the years, the writer was able to ______ some wisdom that she passd on to others in her books. |
| Hallow | (v.) to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere. Syn: venerate, bless. Ant: desecrate, defile, profane. Ex. In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln _______ the battlefield on which the Union soldiers fought and died. |
| Idiosyncrasy | (n.) a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify. Syn: eccentricity, quirk, mannerism. Ex. The fact that the plurals of some nouns are formed irregularly is an ______ of English grammer. |
| Ignominy | (n). shame and disgrace. Syn: dishonor, humiliation, disrepute, odium. Ant: honor, glory, acclaim. Ex. He went from glory to ______. |
| Mundane | (adj.) earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary. Syn: prosaic, humdrum, routine, sublunary. Ant: heavenly, unworldly, spiritual, transcendental. Ex. The painter left all ______ concerns to her sister while she single-mindedly pursued her artistic goals. |
| Nuance | (n.) a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference. Syn: shade, nicety, refinement. Ex. In his writing, the poet paid close attention to every ______ of meaning in the words he chose. |
| Overweening | (adj.) conceited, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate. Syn: arrogant, unbridled, inflated. Ant: restrained, understated, modest, meek. Ex. It was the ______ confidence of the candidate that prevented her from acknowledging her weakness. |
| Penchant | (n>0 a strong attraction or inclination. Syn: proclivity, propensity, prediliction. Ant: disinclination, aversion. Ex. A teacher with a ______ for belaboring the obvious is bound to be boring. |
| Reputed | (adj.) according to reputation or general belief; having weidepread acceptance and good reputation; (part.) alleged. Syn: putative, reputable, supposed. Ant: proven, corroborated, authenticated. Ex. Although he is the ______ head of a crime syndicate, he has never spent time in jail. |
| Sophistry | (n.) reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy. Syn: specious reasoning. Ex. The couple was beguiled into buying a bigger house than they needed by the clever ______ of the broker. |
| Sumptuous | (adj.) costly, rich, magnificent. Syn: lavish, munificent, opulent, splendid. Ant: skimpy, meager, stingy, niggardly, spartan. Ex. The _____ feast honoring the king's birthday was followed by musical entertainment. |
| Ubiquitous | (adj.) prsent or existing everywhere. Syn: omnipresent, pervasive, universal. Ant: restricted, limited, rare, scarce. Ex. the ______ eye of the TV camera threatens to rob citizens of any sense of privacy. |
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