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    Word List 11: Equivocal (A) )

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    The document provides definitions for 51 words. Some of the words defined include abate (reduce in intensity), abjure (renounce or swear to refrain from), blandishment (words used to coax or flatter), boor (ill-mannered person), cardinal (high ranking church official or major), and deliberate (slow or to think over).

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    Word List 11: Equivocal (A) )

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    The document provides definitions for 51 words. Some of the words defined include abate (reduce in intensity), abjure (renounce or swear to refrain from), blandishment (words used to coax or flatter), boor (ill-mannered person), cardinal (high ranking church official or major), and deliberate (slow or to think over).

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    Word list 11

    Abate Abjure Blandishment Boor reduce in intensity renounce; swear to refrain from something words used to coax or flatter [blandish (v)] ill-mannered person [boorish (a)] 1. high ranking church official; 2. major, 2. important 1. slow (a); 2. to think over (v); 3. on purpose (a) speaking ambiguously [equivocate (v), equivocal (a)] feeble; helpless; lacking in initiative quality of being calm and not easily disturbed [imperturbable (a)] falsely attractive; tawdry prediction, looking for omens [augur (v)] refuse to have dealings with slick; superficial esp. in speech cut into [incision (n); incisive (a)] concerned with morals [moralize (v)] shunning; social isolation [ostracize (v)] Penchant Rarefy Repine Stipulate Diaphanous Feint Inured Mettlesome Puissance Recondite Stygian Touting Virtuosity Volubility Caret Contiguous Damp Ellipsis inclination; leaning; tendency; predilection make less dense [rarefaction (n)] fret; be discontented specify [stipulation (n)] transparent; thin and delicate pretended attack; a move intended to deceive hardened; habituated spirited [mettle (n)] power obscure very dark advertising; supporting [tout (v)] skill, expertise [virtuoso (n); virtuosi (n.pl)] excessive talkativeness [voluble (a)] punctuation mark signifying omission adjacent; touching; abutting [contiguity (n)] (used of vibration) reduce in extent omission of essential words

    Cardinal Deliberate

    Equivocation Feckless

    Imperturbability Meretricious Augury Boycott Glib Incise Moralistic Ostracism

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    Extirpation wiping out; complete destruction [extirpate (v)] behaving or dressing like a dandy; excessively concerned with fashion blunder; social mistake encouraging; exhorting expressing great scorn [opprobrium (n)] reclining; lying down able to use both left and right hands equally well guilt [culpable = blameworthy] judgment; perceptiveness praise coax; cajole; wheedle; entice threatening turned to bone; become rigid [ossification (n)] measure depth of (v); exact (a. slang) most typical; the perfect example of [quintessence (n)] mysterious; magical accumulation of matter; growth produced by Demagogue Effrontery Idyll Interregnum Nugatory Sinecure Anodized Aphoristic Canonical Commensurate Dexterity Extant Impugned Anachronistic adding from the outside occurring in the wrong time period [anachronism (n)] long lasting (often used for diseases in which case the opposite is acute) rudeness; ill-mannered behavior mob leader (who appeals to base instincts) [demagogy/demagoguery (n)] daring; audacity (has a negative connotation) story or incident in peaceful or ideal setting [idyllic (a)] interval between reigns or governments of minor significance; futile job which pays salary but requiring little effort electroplated; coated with thin layer of metal expressed tersely [aphorism (n) = short statement; maxim] orthodox [canon (n) = set of accepted works] equal in significance skill, esp. with hands [dexterous (a)] still in existence (opposite of extinct) challenged; called into question

    Foppish Gaffe Hortatory Opprobrious Recumbent Ambidextrous Culpability Discernment Encomium Inveigle Minatory Ossified Plumb

    Chronic Churlishness

    Quintessential Runic Accretion

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    Probity Raconteur Solicitous Amalgamate Baleful Coerce Inchoate Iniquitous Libertine Millinery Natty Occluded Sidereal Avaricious Extirpate Halcyon List (v) Maudlin uprightness; honesty person who relates a story kindly; expressing care and concern join; consolidate [amalgamation (n)] evil force [coercion (n); coercing (a)] undeveloped; nascent evil; unjust [iniquity (n)] dissolute person; prodigal hats and hat-making neat; dapper; smart obscured; blocked of or related to stars greedy for money wipe out totally Refulgent Subliminal Testiness Vituperate Whittle Colander Cumbersome Diaphanous Dispatch Epistemology Froward Supine Throwback Untoward Verisimilar glowing; radiant below the threshold of consciousness irritability; irascibility [testy (a)] attack bitterly 1. carve with knife; 2. reduce step by step bowl with holes used to drain vegetables etc. bulky; difficult to carry [encumber = to burden] transparent; thin and delicate 1. send (v); 2. speed; celerity (n) theory of knowledge stubborn; wayward; disobedient lying flat on ones back exhibiting primitive, or ancestral, traits unexpected true to life; giving the appearance of reality

    peaceful and happy; calm (esp. of summer weather) 1. to lean to one side; 2. to write in order sad; sentimental; inclined to weep

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