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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| to depart clandestiny; to steal off and hide | Abscond (verb) |
| deviating from the norm (noun form: aberration) | Aberrant (adj) |
| eager and enthusiastic willingness | Alacrity (noun) |
| deviation from the normal order, form or rule; abnormality (adj. form: anomalous) | Anomaly (noun) |
| an expression of approval or praise | Approbation (noun) |
| strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort | Arduous (adj) |
| to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify | Assuage (verb) |
| daring and fearless; recklessly bold (noun form: audacity) | Audacious (adj) |
| without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic (noun form: austerity) | Austere (adj) |
| taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth (noun form: axiom) | Axiomatic (adj) |
| following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards (noun form: canon) | Canonical (adj) |
| inclined to change one´s mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable | Capricious (adj) |
| to criticize severely; to officially rebuke | Censure (verb) |
| trickery or subterfuge | Chicanery (noun) |
| an informed an astute judge in matters of taste; expert | Connoisseur (noun) |
| complex or complicated | Convoluted (adj) |
| to undeceive; to set right | Diasbuse (verb) |
| conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound | Discordant (adj) |
| fundamentally distinct or dissimilar | Disparate (adj) |
| extreme boldness; presumptuousness | Effrontery (noun) |
| well-spoken, expressive, articulate (noun form: eloquence) | Eloquent (adj) |
| to weaken; to reduce in vitality | Enervate (verb) |
| dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy | Ennui (noun) |
| to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent (adj. form. equivocal) | Equivocate (verb) |
| very learned; scholarly (noum form: erudition) | Erudite (adj) |
| exonerate; to clear of blame | Exculpate (verb) |
| urgent, pressing; requering immediate action or attention | Exigent (adj) |
| improvised; done without preparation | Extemporaneous (adj) |
| intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action | Filibuster (noun) |
| to loudly attack or denounce | Fulminate (verb) |
| artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication | Ingenous (adj) |
| accustumed to accepting something undesirable | Inured (adj) |
| easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts | Iracible (adj) |
| to praise highly (adj. form: laudatory) | Laud (verb) |
| clear; easily understood | Lucid (adj) |
| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving (adj. form: magnanimous) | Magnanimity (noun) |
| associated with war and armed forces | Martial (adj) |
| of the world; typical or concerned with the ordinary | Mundane (adj) |
| coming into being; in early development stages | Nascent (adj) |
| vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form | Nebulous (adj) |
| a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses | Neologism (noun) |
| harmful, injurious | Noxious (adj) |
| lacking sharpness of intellect; nor clear or precise in thought or expression | Obtuse (adj) |
| to anticipate and make unnecessary | Obviate (verb) |
| troubling; burdensome | Onerous (adj) |
| a song or hymm of praise and thanksgiving | Paean (noun) |
| a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or commic effect, esp. in literature and art | Parody (noun) |
| recurrent through the year or many years, happening repeatedly | Perennial (adj) |
| intentional breach of faith; treachery (adj. form: perfidious) | Perfidy (noun) |
| cursory; done without care or interest | Perfunctory (adj) |
| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment (noun form: perspicacity) | Perspicacious (adj) |
| to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner | Prattle (verb) |
| acting with excessive haste or impulse | Precipitate (adj) |
| to cause or happen before antecipated or required | Precipitate (verb) |
| a disposition in favor of something; preference | Predilection (noun) |
| foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring (adj. form: prescient) | Prescience (noun) |
| to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead | Prevaricate (verb) |
| misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy | Qualms (noun) |
| to retract, esp. a previously held belief | Recant (verb) |
| to disprove; to successfully argue against | Refute (verb) |
| to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position | Relegate (verb) |
| quite; reserved; relluctant to express thoughts and feelings | Reticent (adj) |
| concerned and attentive; eager | Solicitous (adj) |
| characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul | Sordid (adj) |
| occurring only occasionally, or in sattered instances | Sporadic (adj) |
| to waste by spending or using irresponsably not moving, active, or in motion: at rest | Static (adj) |
| to stun; baffle, or amaze | Stupefy (verb) |
| to block; to thwart | Stymie (verb) |
| the combination of parts to make a whole (verb form: synthesize) | Synthesis (noun) |
| a force that causes rotation | Torque (noun) |
| winding, twisting; excessively complicated | Tortuous (adj) |
| fierce and cruel; eager to fight | Truculent (adj) |
| truthfulness, honesty | Veracity (noun) |
| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic | Virulent (adj) |
| having an isatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous | Voracious (adj) |
| to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion | Waver (verb) |
| to lessen in intensity or degree | Abate (verb) |
| an expression of praise | Accolade (noun) |
| excessive praise; inense adoration | Adulation (noun) |
| dealing with; appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful | Aesthetic (adj) |
| to make better or more tolerable | Ameliotate (verb) |
| one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion | Ascetic (noun) |
| greed, esp. for wealth (adj. form: avaricious) | Avarice (noun) |
| a universally recognized principle (adj. form: axiomatic) | Axiom (noun) |
| to grow rapidly or flourish | Burgeon (verb) |
| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants | Bucolic (adj) |
| harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance (adj. form: cacophonous) | Cacophony (noun) |
| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature (adj. form: canonical) | Canon (noun) |
| severe criticism or punishment (verb form: castigate) | Castigation (noun) |
| a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change | Catalyst (noun) |
| burning or stinging; causing corrosion | Caustic (adj) |
| wary; cautions; sparing | Chary (adj) |
| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing | Cogent (adj) |
| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others (adj. form: complaisant) | Complaisance (noun) |
| argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement | Contentious (adj) |
| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness (noun form: contrition) | Contrite (adj) |
| deserving blame (noun form: culpability) | Culpable (adj) |
| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack | Dearth (noun) |
| to question or oppose | Demur (verb) |
| intended to teach or instruct | Didactic (adj) |
| cautions reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions (adj. form: discreet) | Discretion (noun) |
| free of bias or self-interest; impartial | Disinterested (adj) |
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