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Frage		Antworten
Abeyance Lernen beginnen		temporary suppression or suspension
Abjure Lernen beginnen		to reject; abandon formally
Abstemious Lernen beginnen		moderate in appetite
Accretion Lernen beginnen		growth in size or amount
Alacrity Lernen beginnen		cheerful willingness; eagerness; speed
Anodyne Lernen beginnen		something that calms or soothes pain
Antediluvian Lernen beginnen		prehistoric
Apogee Lernen beginnen		the point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited
Apothegm Lernen beginnen		a terse, witty saying
Apposite Lernen beginnen		strikingly appropriate and relevant
Approbation Lernen beginnen		praise; approval
Apropos Lernen beginnen		relevant
Arabesque Lernen beginnen		ornate design featuring intertwined curves
Argot Lernen beginnen		specialized vocabulary used by a group
Asperity Lernen beginnen		severity, hardness, irritability
Aspersion Lernen beginnen		slander; false rumor
Assiduous working Lernen beginnen		diligent, hard
Astringent Lernen beginnen		harsh; severe
Atavism Lernen beginnen		in biology, the reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after generations of absence; reappearance of a trait after a period of absence
Avocation Lernen beginnen		secondary occupation
Avuncular Lernen beginnen		like an uncle, benevolent / tolerant
Bacchanalian Lernen beginnen		pertaining to riotous or drunken festivity; pertaining to revelry
Bedizen Lernen beginnen		dress in a vulgar or showy manner
Blandishment Lernen beginnen		flattery
Boorish Lernen beginnen		rude; insensitive
Bucolic Lernen beginnen		rustic
Burnish Lernen beginnen		to polish
Cadge Lernen beginnen		to beg; sponge
Calumny Lernen beginnen		false and malicious accusation; slander
Canard Lernen beginnen		false; deliberately misleading story
Canon Lernen beginnen		an established principle’ a basis or standard for judgement; a group of literary works
Cant Lernen beginnen		insincere talk; language of a particular group
Captious finding; intended to entrap Lernen beginnen		fault
Carping Lernen beginnen		to find fault; to complain
Caucus Lernen beginnen		a smaller group within an organization
Centrifugal Lernen beginnen		moving away from the center
Centripetal Lernen beginnen		moving or directed to a center
Chicanery Lernen beginnen		trickery; fraud
Churlish Lernen beginnen		rude
Cloister Lernen beginnen		to confine; seclude
Coda Lernen beginnen		concluding part of a literary or musical composition; something that summarizes and concludes
Codify Lernen beginnen		to systematize
Compendium Lernen beginnen		brief; comprehensive summary
Complaisant Lernen beginnen		overly polite; willing to please
Concomitant Lernen beginnen		existing concurrently
Consecrate Lernen beginnen		declare sacred
Contumacious Lernen beginnen		disobedient; rebellious
Convivial Lernen beginnen		sociable
Coquette Lernen beginnen		woman who flirts
Cozen Lernen beginnen		to mislead by fraud; deceive
Credence Lernen beginnen		acceptance of something as true
Credo Lernen beginnen		statement of belief or principle
Dearth Lernen beginnen		scarcity
Demotic Lernen beginnen		pertaining to people
Demur Lernen beginnen		to express doubt
Denizen Lernen beginnen		an inhabitant; a regular vistor
Denouement Lernen beginnen		outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature
Desuetude Lernen beginnen		state of disuse
Desultory Lernen beginnen		random; disconnected; rambling
Diaphanous textured; vague Lernen beginnen		transparent; fine
Dirge Lernen beginnen		funeral hymn
Discomfit Lernen beginnen		make uneasy
Disparate Lernen beginnen		varied; dissimilar
Dissolution Lernen beginnen		disintegration; debauchery
Distrait Lernen beginnen		inattentive; preoccupied
Divest Lernen beginnen		to strip; deprive; rid
Doctrinaire Lernen beginnen		relating to a person who cannot compromise about points of a theory or doctrine; dogmatic
Doggerel Lernen beginnen		poor verse
Dross Lernen beginnen		waste; worthless matter; trivial matter
Effervescence Lernen beginnen		state of high spirits or liveliness
Effete Lernen beginnen		depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent
Effrontery Lernen beginnen		shameless boldness; presumptuousness
Elysian Lernen beginnen		blissful; delightful
Elegy Lernen beginnen		poem or song expressing lamentation
Emollient Lernen beginnen		soothing; mollifying
Encomium Lernen beginnen		a formal expression of praise
Enervate Lernen beginnen		to weaken
Engender Lernen beginnen		to cause; produce
Equable Lernen beginnen		steady; unvarying; serene
Essay Lernen beginnen		to make an attempt; subject to a test
Etiology Lernen beginnen		causes or origins
Execrable Lernen beginnen		detestable; abhorrent
Expatiate Lernen beginnen		to speak or write at length
Expatriate Lernen beginnen		to send into exile
Expiate Lernen beginnen		to atone for
Explicate Lernen beginnen		to explain; clarify; interpret
Extemporaneous Lernen beginnen		unrehearsed
Extirpate Lernen beginnen		to root up; to destroy
Factotum Lernen beginnen		a person who dose all sorts of work; a handyman
Fallow Lernen beginnen		plowed but not sowed; uncultivated
Fatuous satisfied Lernen beginnen		foolishly self
Felicitous chosen Lernen beginnen		suitably expressed; appropriate; well
Fiat Lernen beginnen		arbitrary order; authorization
Fissure Lernen beginnen		crevice
Foment Lernen beginnen		to excite; to arouse
Forbearance Lernen beginnen		patience
Fracas Lernen beginnen		loud quarrel; brawl
Fresco Lernen beginnen		a painting done on plaster
Frieze Lernen beginnen		an ornamental band on a wall
Froward Lernen beginnen		stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient
Fulminate Lernen beginnen		to attack loudly; to denounce
Fulsome Lernen beginnen		so excessive as to be disgusting
Gainsay Lernen beginnen		to deny; dispute; oppose
Gambol Lernen beginnen		to frolic;
Garrulous Lernen beginnen		talkative
Gauche Lernen beginnen		course and uncouth; clumsy
Grandiloquent Lernen beginnen		pompous; bombastic
Grouse Lernen beginnen		to complain
Halcyon Lernen beginnen		calm and peaceful; happy;
Hermetic Lernen beginnen		tightly sealed; magical
Hirsute Lernen beginnen		covered with hair
Homily Lernen beginnen		sermon; platitude
Iconoclastic Lernen beginnen		attacking cherished traditions
Igneous Lernen beginnen		produced by fire; volcanic
Imbroglio Lernen beginnen		complicated situation; an entanglement
Impecunious Lernen beginnen		poor
Imprecation Lernen beginnen		curse
Impute Lernen beginnen		to relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault to; assign as a characteristic
Inchoate Lernen beginnen		imperfectly formed or formulated
Indigence Lernen beginnen		poverty
Indolent Lernen beginnen		habitually lazy
Ineluctable Lernen beginnen		not to be avoided or escaped
Insensible Lernen beginnen		unconscious, unresponsive
Insouciant Lernen beginnen		indifferent; lacking concern or care
Insularity mindedness; isolation Lernen beginnen		narrow
Insuperable Lernen beginnen		insurmountable; unconquerable
Interdict Lernen beginnen		to forbid; prohibit
Internecine Lernen beginnen		deadly to both sides
Interpolate Lernen beginnen		to insert; change by adding new material
Interregnum Lernen beginnen		interval between reigns; gap in continuity
Intractable Lernen beginnen		not easily managed
Inured Lernen beginnen		hardened; accustomed; used to
Invective Lernen beginnen		verbal abuse
Inveigh Lernen beginnen		to disapprove; protest vehemently
Inveigle Lernen beginnen		to win over by flattery or coaxing
Inveterate standing; deeply rooted Lernen beginnen		confirmed; long
Invidious Lernen beginnen		likely to provoke ill will; offensive
Irascible Lernen beginnen		easily angered
Itinerant Lernen beginnen		wandering from place to place; unsettled
Jocose Lernen beginnen		fond of joking; jocular; playful
Junta Lernen beginnen		group of people united by political intrigue
Labile Lernen beginnen		likely to change
Laconic Lernen beginnen		using few words
Lambaste Lernen beginnen		thrash verbally or physically
Lassitude Lernen beginnen		lethargy
Libertine Lernen beginnen		one without moral restraint
Lilliputian Lernen beginnen		extremely small
Limn Lernen beginnen		to draw, describe
Limpid Lernen beginnen		clear, transparent
Literati Lernen beginnen		scholarly or learned persons
Lucre Lernen beginnen		money or profits
Machiavellian dealing Lernen beginnen		crafty; double
Malinger Lernen beginnen		feign illness to escape duty
Maverick Lernen beginnen		dissenter
Mendicant Lernen beginnen		beggar
Meretricious Lernen beginnen		gaudy; plausible but false; specious
Metaphysics Lernen beginnen		branch of philosophy investigating the ultimate nature of reality
Mettle Lernen beginnen		courage, endurance
Militate Lernen beginnen		to work against
Minatory Lernen beginnen		threatening; menacing
Miscellany Lernen beginnen		mixture of writings on various subjects
Multifarious Lernen beginnen		diverse
Neophyte Lernen beginnen		novice, beginner
Nexus Lernen beginnen		means of connection; a center; a connected group
Nostrum Lernen beginnen		medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness
Nugatory Lernen beginnen		trifling, invalid
Obdurate Lernen beginnen		stubborn
Obsequy Lernen beginnen		funeral ceremony
Obviate Lernen beginnen		to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent
Officious Lernen beginnen		too helpful; meddlesome
Opprobrium Lernen beginnen		disgrace; contempt
Ostentatious Lernen beginnen		showy; pretentious
Overweening Lernen beginnen		presumptuous; arrogant; overbearing
Paean Lernen beginnen		song of joy or triumph
Panegryic Lernen beginnen		elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise
Patois Lernen beginnen		regional dialect; jargon
Pellucid Lernen beginnen		transparent; easily understood
Penury Lernen beginnen		extreme poverty
Peregrination Lernen beginnen		wandering from place to place
Peremptory Lernen beginnen		imperative; leaving no choice
Perennial Lernen beginnen		present throughout the years, persistent
Perfidious Lernen beginnen		disloyal, untrustworthy
Perigree Lernen beginnen		point in an orbit that is closest to the Earth
Phlegmatic Lernen beginnen		calm in temperament; sluggish
Piquant Lernen beginnen		appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent
Pique Lernen beginnen		fleeting feeling of hurt pride
Plumb Lernen beginnen		to examine deeply; to determine the depth
Plutocracy Lernen beginnen		government of the wealthy
Prate Lernen beginnen		to talk idly
Precipitate Lernen beginnen		rash; hasty; sudden
Prehensile Lernen beginnen		capable of grasping
Presage Lernen beginnen		to foretell; indicate in advance
Prevaricate Lernen beginnen		to quibble; evade the truth
Probity mindedness Lernen beginnen		honesty; high
Propitiate Lernen beginnen		to win over; appease
Proscribe Lernen beginnen		to condemn
Provident Lernen beginnen		providing for future needs; frugal
Puissant Lernen beginnen		powerful
Punctilious Lernen beginnen		careful in observing rules of behavior or ceremony
Pusillanimous Lernen beginnen		cowardly
Quagmire Lernen beginnen		marsh; difficult situation
Quail Lernen beginnen		to cower, lose heart
Quorum Lernen beginnen		number of members necessary to conduct a meeting
Raconteur Lernen beginnen		witty, skillful storyteller
Raiment Lernen beginnen		clothing
Rebus Lernen beginnen		puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words
Recalcitrant Lernen beginnen		resisting control or authority
Recondite Lernen beginnen		abstruse; profound
Redoubtable Lernen beginnen		formidable; arousing fear or respect
Refractory Lernen beginnen		stubborn; unmanageable
Refulgent Lernen beginnen		brightly shining; resplendent
Remonstrate Lernen beginnen		to object or protest
Renege Lernen beginnen		to go back on one’s word
Repine Lernen beginnen		to fret; complain
Riposte Lernen beginnen		a retaliatory action or retort
Rococo Lernen beginnen		excessively ornate (style of architecture in 18th century Europe)
Salacious Lernen beginnen		lascivious; lustful
Salubrious Lernen beginnen		healthful
Salutary Lernen beginnen		favorable to health; expecting an improvement
Sartorial Lernen beginnen		pertaining to tailors
Saturnine Lernen beginnen		gloomy
Sedition Lernen beginnen		behavior prompting rebellion
Sedulous Lernen beginnen		diligent
Servile Lernen beginnen		obedient
Sextant Lernen beginnen		navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude
Sidereal Lernen beginnen		relating to the stars
Simian like, relating to the apes Lernen beginnen		ape
Sinecure paying job or office that requires little work Lernen beginnen		well
Solicitous Lernen beginnen		concerned; attentive; eager
Spendthrift Lernen beginnen		a person who spends money recklessly
Stentorian Lernen beginnen		extremely loud
Stricture Lernen beginnen		something that restrains; negative criticism
Stultify Lernen beginnen		to impair or reduce to uselessness
Stygian Lernen beginnen		dark and gloomy; hellish
Subsume Lernen beginnen		to include / incorporate
Succor Lernen beginnen		relief; help in time of distress
Sundry Lernen beginnen		various
Supine Lernen beginnen		lying on the back; marked by lethargy
Suppliant Lernen beginnen		beseeching
Supposition Lernen beginnen		the act of assuming to be true or real
Sylvan Lernen beginnen		relating to the woods or the forest
Tautology Lernen beginnen		unnecessary repetition
Toady Lernen beginnen		a flatterer
Travail Lernen beginnen		work, especially arduous work
Truculence Lernen beginnen		aggressiveness, ferocity
Tumid Lernen beginnen		swollen; distended
Turbid Lernen beginnen		muddy; opaque
Tutelary Lernen beginnen		serving as a guardian or protector
Usury Lernen beginnen		practice of lending money at exorbitant rates
Vacillate Lernen beginnen		to waver; oscillate
Valedictory Lernen beginnen		pertaining to a farewell
Variegated Lernen beginnen		varied; marked with different colors
Vaunt Lernen beginnen		to boast; brag
Venal Lernen beginnen		bribable; mercenary
Veracious Lernen beginnen		truthful; accurate
Vitiate Lernen beginnen		to impair the quality of; make inoperative
Vituperative Lernen beginnen		using or containing harsh; abusive censure
Welter Lernen beginnen		to wallow or roll; be in turmoil

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