level: Level 1 of Chapter 4
Questions and Answers List
level questions: Level 1 of Chapter 4
Question | Answer |
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refractory | resistant to authority |
infractable | resistant to authority |
duplit | twofold |
nym | name |
pseudo | fake |
rapere | seize |
spurious | fake/counterfeit |
guile | trickery |
beguile | to deceive with charm |
strategem | a deceitful scheme |
subterfuge | a deceitful scheme |
surreptitious | deceptive/sneaky |
chicanery | deceit, hypocritical deception |
improbity | deceit |
specious | false but plausible |
sophistic | misleading |
delusory | deceptive;false |
rapacious | greedy |
transient | short-lived |
ephemeral | short-lived |
evanescent | short-lived |
sporadic | irregular |
extemporaneous | done with little or no practice |
anachronism | something out of place in time |
incongruity | something out of place in time |
asynchronism | something out of place in time |
superfluous | beyond what is necessary |
contemporaneous | existing or occurring at about the same time |
unremitting | never ending |
dia | through/thoroughly |
pugn | to fight |
calumny | slander |
extolment | praise/laudation |
diatribe | malicious criticism/abuse |
derision | criticism/abuse |
harangue | criticism/abuse |
acrimonious | angry/bitter |
repudiate | to cast off publicly |
pejorative | disparaging |
impugn | attack against something by calling it false |
anathema | a curse |
execration | curse |