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1100 words you need to know
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| voracious | desiring or consuming great quantities |
| indiscriminate | choosing at random with ot careful selections |
| eminent | of high reputation, outstanding |
| steeped | soaked, drenched, saturated |
| replete | completely filled or supplied with |
| abound | to exist in great nubers |
| technolgy | branch of knowledge dealing with engeering |
| prognosticate | to predict or foretell a furture event |
| automaton | a robot |
| matron | to predict or foretell a furture event |
| paradox | a statment which at first seems to be absurd or selfcontradictory but turns out to be true |
| realm | special field of something or someone; kingdom |
| annals | historical records |
| compound | to increase or add to |
| tinge | a trace,smattering or slight degree |
| badger | to pester nag |
| drudgery | unpleasant, dull, or hard work |
| interminable | unending |
| implore | to plead urgently for aid or mercy |
| perceive | to understand, know become aware of |
| laconic | expressin much in few words |
| throng | crowd |
| interpid | brave |
| accost | to approach and speak to |
| reticent | silent |
| furtive | secret, stealthy |
| felon | a person guilty of a major crime |
| hapless | unfortunate |
| plethora | excess |
| irate | angery, incensed |
| pretext | an excuse |
| fabricate | to lie: construct |
| adroit | skillful |
| gesticulate | move arms around |
| vigilant | watchful |
| avid | eager |
| cajole | coax |
| rudimentary | elementary |
| enhance | intensify, heighten |
| nuance | slight variation in meaning, tone |
| loathe | to hate |
| reprimand | to show sharp disapproval |
| lackluster | dull |
| caustic | sarcatic, biting |
| wrest | take by force |
| infamous | having a bad reputation |
| jostle | to shove hard |
| dupe | a person easly tricked |
| incipient | just beginning to exist |
| inadvertent | heedless, not attentive |
| ominous | threatening |
| tremulous | quivering |
| repudiate | to reject, decline |
| cessation | a stopping |
| bristle | stiffen with fear or anger |
| euphemism | a less offensive term |
| mundane | wordly |
| incongruous | inappropriate |
| stipulate | to specify a condition |
| stipulate | to specify a condition |
| euphemism | a less offensive term |
| mundane | wordly |
| incongruous | inappropriate |
| condolence | pity |
| stipulate | to specify a condition |
| alacrity | briskness, lively action |
| disdain | contempt |
| belligerent | warlike |
| intimidate | overawe |
| feint | a false attack |
| pugnacious | quarrelsome |
| promulgate | to make known officially |
| brash | impudent |
| scoff | to sneer at |
| belittle | to make seem less improtant |
| tangible | having actual form |
| laceration | jagged wound |
| castigate | to correct by punishing |
| sordid | dirty, base |
| octogernarian | person in his or her eighties |
| solace | easing of grief |
| aspirant | candidate for high postion |
| dregs | most worthless part |
| frenzy | wild fit |
| scurrilous | coarse |
| rampant | going unchecked, widespread |
| inane | foolish |
| ethics | code of principles |
| concur | agree |
| clandestine | secret, undercover |
| flagrant | outrageous, glaringly bad |
| admonish | to warn, to reprove |
| duress | compulsion, force |
| culprit | the guilty person |
| inexorable | inflexible,unrelenting |
| egregious | remarkably bad |
| distraguht | mentally confused, crazed |
| duplicity | cunning, trickery |
| acrimonious | bitter |
| paucity | scarcity |
| elict | to draw forth |
| pernicious | harmful, causing injury |
| tolerate | to put up wit, bear |
| construe | to mkae a deduction, to infer |
| impunity | freedom from punishment |
| affluent | rich |
| feasible | possible |
| dicern | perceive |
| sally | suddenly rush forth |
| consternation | dismay |
| precocious | reaching maturity early |
| perfunctory | done without care, superficial |
| chagrin | feeling of disappoinment, humiliation |
| perverse | contrary, persisting in error |
| deride | to ridicule, scoff at |
| diparage | to dicredit, belittle |
| laudable | praiseworthy |
| fiasco | complete failure |
| masticate | to chew up |
| eschew | avoid |
| quell | put an end to |
| voluble | talkative |
| confidant | one to whom you confide your secrets |
| obsolescence | process of wearing out |
| dubious | doubtful |
| stynic | to hinder |
| effigy | a likeness |
| flout | show contempt scoff |
| cognizant | aware |
| turbulant | unruly, agitated |
| terminate | to end |
| forthwith | immediately |
| exacerbate | to irritate |
| revert | return |
| oust | to drive out |
| implacable | can not be pacified |
| reprehensidle | worthy of blame |
| jurusdiction | power range |
| skirmish | small fight |
| harass | to torment |
| monolithic | massively solid |
| indigent | poor, neady |
| arbitury | based on whim |
| fray | a fight |
| paraxysm | a fit, sudden out burst |
| emaciated | abnormally thin, wasted away |
| surge | to rush suddenly |
| tranquil | quiet |
| sanctuary | shelter |
| ascend | to rise |
| malnutrition | faulty or inadequate diet |
| afflict | to trouble gready, to distress |
| besiege | to surround, hem in |
| privation | lack of necessities |
| sinister | evil, ominous |
| ubiquitous | being everywhere at the same time |
| remote | distant, hidden awa |
| thwart | to hinder, defeat |
| harbinger | a forerunner, advance notice |
| malignant | likely to cause death |
| excruciating | agonizing, toruring |
| respite | an interval of relief, delay |
| reverberating | reechoing, resounding |
| fretful | worrisome, irritable |
| succumb | to give way, yield |
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