139935451 | askance | (adv.) with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval | |
139935452 | attenuate | (v.) To make thin or slender, to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value. | |
139935453 | benign | (adj.) Gentle, kind, forgiving, understanding, having a favorable or beneficial effect, not malignant | |
139935454 | cavil | (v.) To find fault in a petty way, carp; (n.) A trivial objection or criticism | |
139935456 | charlatan | (n.) One who feigns knowledge or ability, a pretender, impostor, or quack. | |
147965867 | concatenation | (n.) a linking together in a sequence; a chain | |
147965868 | concomitant | (adj.) accompanying; occuring concurrently; (n.) something that accompanies another thing | |
139935457 | decimate | (v.) To kill or destroy a large part of | |
139935458 | foible | (n.) A weak point, failing, minor flaw. | |
139935459 | forgo | (v.) To do without, abstain from, give up | |
139935460 | fraught | (adj.) Full of or loaded with, accompanied by. | |
139935461 | inure | (v.) To toughen, harden, to render used to something by long subjection or exposure. | |
139935462 | luminous | (adj.) Emitting or reflecting light, glowing, illuminating. | |
139935463 | obsequious | (adj.) Marked by slavish attentiveness, excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons. | |
139935464 | obtuse | (adj.) Blunt, not coming to a point, slow or dull in understanding, not causing a sharp impression. | |
139935465 | oscillate | (v.) To swing back and forth with a steady rhythm, to fluctuate or waver. | |
139935466 | penitent | (adj.) regretful for one's sins or mistakes | |
139935468 | peremptory | (adj.) Having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal, offensively self-assured, dictatorial, determined, resolute | |
139935469 | rebuff | (v.) To snub, to repel, drive away; (n.) a curt rejection, a check. | |
139935471 | reconnoiter | (v.) To engage in reconnaissance, to make a preliminary inspection | |
139935472 | shambles | (n.) A slaughterhouse, a place of mass bloodshed, a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess | |
139935473 | sporadic | (adj.) Occurring at irregular intervals, having no set plan or order. |
Setzer - AP Comp. - Unit 10
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