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What is repulsion?
Desire to aviod; disgust
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What is aptitude?
Skill or suitability for
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What does formative mean?
Occuring at the time of most influence
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What does abstain mean?
To not do something; refrain
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What's sustain?
To support for an extended period of time
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What does infantile mean
Childish; imature
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What does improvise mean
to create without any forethougt or preparation
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What does disposition mean?
Attitude or mood
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What's an agenda
a plan of action; purpose
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What does inept mean?
Unskilled; clumsy
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What's belligerence?
Warlike mood or attitude
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What's a bibliophile
One who loves book
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What's an allegation?
a claim or asseration that someone has done something wrong or illegal
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What does cordial mean?
warmly friendly and polite
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What does abjure mean?
To swear off; renounce
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What is perjury
Breaking of a legal oath
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What does rapt mean?
Giving total attention to; captivated
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What does indomitable mean?
Unbeatable; resilient
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What is a precept mean?
An idea important to a system of beliefs
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What does theocracy mean?
Government by a religous leader of figure
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What does prologue mean?
A speech, passage, or event coming before the main speech or event
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What does matriculate mean?
To enroll in a degree program, especially at a college
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What does expatriate mean?
A person living outside his or her native country
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What is a genealogy?
the study of families and descendants
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What's a revival
The act or process of bringing back to life
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What does relative mean?
Dependent upon
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What's an effigy?
A figure constructed in mockery
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What does phosphorescent mean
Giving off light without heat
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What does photogenic mean?
Attractive in pictures or photgraphs
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What's an edict?
An offical order
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What's a specter
A ghost or a phantom
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What's a pronouncement?
A declaration of opinion; judgement
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What's a prologue
A speech, passage or event coming before the main speech or event
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What does bellicose mean?
warlike in nature
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What is a philanthrophy?
a charitable donation to public causes
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What does inaudible mean?
So quiet as to be impossible to hear
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What does analgous?
Comparable to; like
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What does equitable mean?
fair; just
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What does alleviate mean?
To make less painful or dangerous
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What's an incision?
A cut made in oreder to get inside something
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What does dissemble mean?
to conceal the truth; deceive
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What does metaphorical mean?
Symbolic rather than literal
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What does sophisticate mean?
one well-traveld and knowledgeable about culture, etuutte and/or fashion
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What is an antibiotic?
Causing the death of living organisms, especiallty harmful ones.
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What does indecisive mean?
Unable to make choices
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What does antebellum mean?
occuring before a war
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What does patronize mean?
- 1. To regularly visit or give business to
- 2. To talk down to; condescend
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What does miniscule mean?
tiny
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What doe progenitor mean?
The founder of a line or race
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What does immortalized mean?
to preserve in memory forever
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