Barron's Critical Reading Workbook. Level C Sentence Completions, Exercise 1-4.
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| 667462869 | premeditate | think or reflect beforehand or in advance | |
| 667462870 | iconoclastic | attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions | |
| 667462871 | pious | devoutly religious | |
| 667462872 | sage | having wisdom that comes with age and experience | |
| 667462873 | zealot | a fervent and even militant proponent of something | |
| 667462874 | pedant | a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | |
| 667462875 | sophomoric | immature and overconfident; conceited | |
| 667462876 | stodgy | excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | |
| 667462877 | conjecture | reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | |
| 667462878 | prolific | bearing in abundance especially offspring | |
| 667462879 | egotistical | characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | |
| 667462880 | irate | feeling or showing extreme anger | |
| 667462881 | galled | irritated; angered | |
| 667462882 | vacillated | wavered; hesitated | |
| 667462883 | divulge | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | |
| 667462884 | idiosyncratic | a characteristic peculiar to an individual, a quirk | |
| 667462885 | flagged | marked in some way as to remind or remember that specific action needs to be taken: declined; lost strength or interest | |
| 667462886 | citadel | (n.) a fortress that overlooks and protects a city; any strong or commanding place | |
| 667462887 | spurious | plausible but false | |
| 667462888 | antiquated | so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | |
| 667462889 | euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive | |
| 667462890 | proverb | a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | |
| 667462891 | eclipse | one celestial body obscures another; exceed in importance | |
| 667462892 | barren | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation, not bearing offspring | |
| 667462893 | fecund | fertile; productive | |
| 667462894 | diluted | reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | |
| 667462895 | vicissitude | a change or variation; ups and downs, a change, variation, or alteration; successive or changing phases or conditions | |
| 667462896 | aerial | in or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air | |
| 667462897 | rectify | set straight or right | |
| 667462898 | sporadic | recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances | |
| 667462899 | desultory | marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose | |
| 667462900 | opalescent | having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors | |
| 667462901 | astigmatic | to have an extremely skewed point of view | |
| 667462902 | roseate | having a dusty purplish pink color | |
| 667462903 | slipshod | marked by great carelessness | |
| 667462904 | synthetic | a compound made artificially by chemical reactions | |
| 667462905 | condemnation | (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed, an expression of strong disapproval | |
| 667462906 | camaraderie | good will and warm feelings among friends | |
| 667462907 | mercenary | a person hired to fight for another country than their own | |
| 667462908 | superseded | to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use | |
| 667462909 | veracity | truthfulness | |
| 667462910 | brevity | the attribute of being brief or fleeting | |
| 667462911 | replete | full; abundant | |
| 667462912 | vacillated | wavered; hesitated | |
| 667462913 | lucrative | producing a good profit, financially rewarding | |
| 667462914 | foibles | a minor weakness or failing of character | |
| 667462915 | merits | the actual facts, to deserve | |
| 667462916 | indoctrinates | to teach or train in the fundamentals; to install or teach from a partisan point of view | |
| 667462917 | lurid | horrible in fierceness or savagery, glaringly vivid and graphic | |
| 667462918 | incidental | not of prime or central importance | |
| 667462919 | dispelled | driven away | |
| 667462920 | proscribe | forbid | |
| 667462921 | countenance | consent to, give permission, facial expression | |
| 667462922 | miser | a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably) | |
| 667462923 | toady | a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | |
| 667462924 | wanderlust | very strong or irresistible impulse to travel | |
| 667462925 | brevity | the attribute of being brief or fleeting | |
| 667462926 | barbarous | primitive in customs and culture | |
| 667462927 | intermittent | stopping and starting at irregular intervals | |
| 667462928 | munificence | generosity in giving | |
| 667462929 | probity | complete honesty and integriity | |
| 667462930 | eminence | high status importance owing to marked superiority | |
| 667462931 | imminent | about to happen | |
| 667462932 | malignant | extremely malevolent or malicious, dangerous to health | |
| 667462933 | adulatory | obsequiously complimentary, to praise or admire excessively; fawn on | |
| 667462934 | derivative | unoriginal; derived from another source | |
| 667462935 | condone | excuse, overlook, or make allowances for | |
| 667462936 | vexed | causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution | |
| 667462937 | panned | criticize severely | |
| 667462938 | innocuously | harmlessly | |
| 667462939 | erratically | unpredictably; randomly | |
| 667462940 | huckster | a seller of shoddy goods | |
| 667462941 | diehard | one who adheres to traditional views | |
| 667462942 | pined | yearned intensely | |
| 667462943 | precluded | prevented | |
| 667462944 | stifles | Represses; keep in or hold back | |
| 667462945 | corroborate | establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | |
| 667462946 | martinet | a strict disciplinarian; a stickler for the rules | |
| 667462947 | braggart | a very boastful and talkative person | |
| 667462948 | renegade | a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | |
| 667462949 | skinflint | a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | |
| 667462950 | laggard | someone who takes more time than necessary | |
| 667462951 | negate | make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | |
| 667462952 | pertinent | having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand | |
| 667462953 | heed | pay close attention to | |
| 667462954 | enigmatic | not clear to the understanding | |
| 667462955 | insipid | lacking taste or flavor or tang, lacking interest or significance | |
| 667462956 | incensed | angered at something unjust or wrong | |
| 667462957 | affront | a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront | |
| 667462958 | admonition | gentle warning; friendly reproof | |
| 667462959 | castigate | inflict severe punishment on | |
| 667462960 | fragmented | broken into small fragments, disjointed | |
| 667462961 | subordinated | lower in importance, position or rank. secondary | |
| 667462962 | unencumbered | not burdened with cares or responsibilities | |
| 667462963 | nullified | canceled | |
| 667462964 | plumbed | to examine closely or deeply | |
| 667462965 | tedium | the feeling of being bored by something tedious | |
| 667462966 | erudition | profound scholarly knowledge | |
| 667462967 | pedantry | a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | |
| 667462968 | pedagogue | someone who educates young people | |
| 667462969 | inquiry | a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | |
| 667462970 | unprecedented | never having happened before | |
| 667462971 | precarious | fraught with danger | |
| 667462972 | prosaic | lacking wit or imagination | |
| 667462973 | leisurely | not hurried or forced | |
| 667462974 | innovative | original, new | |
| 667462975 | noteworthy | deserving attention | |
| 667462976 | monosyllabic | having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable | |
| 667462977 | tangential | of superficial relevance if any | |
| 667462978 | peripheral | on the edge, not important | |
| 667462979 | unpretentious | modest; not showy | |
| 667462980 | dubious | fraught with uncertainty or doubt | |
| 667462981 | affinity | a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | |
| 667462982 | inequitable | unfair; unjust | |
| 667462983 | even-handed | fair, impartial | |
| 667462984 | equivocate | be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | |
| 667462985 | unequivocal | clearly defined or formulated | |
| 667462986 | discretion | the trait of judging wisely and objectively | |
| 667462987 | discrete | separate; unconnected | |
| 667462988 | discreet | careful about what one says or does; prudent | |
| 667462989 | ulterior | lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | |
| 667462990 | altruistic | showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | |
| 667462991 | egoistic | motivated by the desire to increase one's own welfare | |
| 667462992 | pedantic | marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | |
| 667462993 | competent | adequate for the purpose | |
| 667462994 | compendium | a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | |
| 667462995 | sedentary | characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place | |
| 667462996 | defunct | having ceased to exist or live | |
| 667462997 | matrilineal | based on or tracing descent through the female line | |
| 667462998 | patrilineal | based on or tracing descent through the male line | |
| 667462999 | xenophobic | fearful of foreigners | |
| 667463000 | hydrophobic | lacking affinity for water | |
| 667463001 | exacerbate | to aggravate, to irritate, to vex | |
| 667463002 | truncate | make shorter as if by cutting off | |
| 667463003 | curtail | place restrictions on | |
| 667463004 | precursor | an indication of the approach of something or someone, a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction) | |
| 667463005 | avidness | enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit ; eager; greedy | |
| 667463006 | solicit | incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination, approach with an offer of sexual favors, to beg, seek earnestly | |
| 667463007 | solicitude | a feeling of excessive concern | |
| 667463008 | supersede | take the place or move into the position of | |
| 667463009 | relished | to take pleasure in | |
| 667463010 | skirted | to avoid something difficult | |
| 667463011 | ethereal | characterized by lightness and insubstantiality, heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible | |
| 667463012 | arboreal | of or relating to or formed by trees |
