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  • Abstruse - Adjective- Hard to understand; recondite; esoteric.
  • Accessible - Adjective- Easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
  • Achrimonious - Adjective - (typically of speech or a debate) Angry and bitter.
  • Adaptive - Adjective - Characterized by or given to adaptation
  • Adroitness - Noun - Cleverness or skill
  • Alleviates - Verb - Make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe
  • Altercation - Noun- A heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy.
  • Ambiguities - Noun- Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.
  • Ambivalence - Noun- Uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
  • Ambivalent - Adjective - Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
  • Ambles - Verb - Walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace
  • Anachronisms - Noun- Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person thatbelongs to an earlier time.
  • Anamalous - Adjective - Deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected.
  • Apparent - Adjective- Readily seen; exposed to sight; open to view; visible; Clearly visible or understood; obvious.
  • Arcane - Adjective - Understood by few; mysterious or secret.
  • Arguments - Noun - An exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one
  • Arrogant - Adjective - Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities
  • Asceticism - Noun- The manner of life, practices, or principles of an ascetic.
  • Aspect - Noun - A particular part or feature of something
  • Aspirations - Noun- Strong desire, longing, or aim; A hope or ambition of achieving something; ambition.
  • Assuage - Verb- To make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate.
  • Assume - Verb- To take for granted or without proof.
  • Assumptions - Noun- Something taken for granted; a supposition.
  • Atoms - Noun- A hypothetical particle of matter so minute as to admit of no division.
  • Attenuate - Verb- To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value.
  • Authoritarian - Adjective - Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
  • Backed - Adjective- Having a back, backing, setting, or support (often used in combination).
  • Badgered - Verb - Ask (someone) repeatedly and annoyingly for something; pester.
  • Banality - Noun- The condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality
  • Barred - Adjective- Provided with oneor more bars.
  • Bear - Verb- To hold or remain firm under (a load).
  • Beliefs - Noun- Something believed; an opinion or conviction.
  • Boastful - Adjective - Showing excessive pride and self-satisfaction in one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.
  • Bored - Adjective - Feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity
  • Brilliant - Adjective- Shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrou.
  • Care - Noun- A state of mind in whichone is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern.
  • Carping - Adjective- Characterized by fussy or petulant faultfinding.
  • Cataclysm - Noun- Any violent upheaval, especially one of a social or political nature.
  • Cater - Verb - Provide (food and drink), typically at social events and in a professional capacity
  • Celestial - Adjective - Positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy
  • Challenged - Adjective- (used as a euphemism) disabled or handicapped (usually preceded by an adverb).
  • Chaos - Noun- A state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organizationor order.
  • Charlatans - Noun- A person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.
  • Chloroflurocarbon - Noun- Any of several volatile, inert, saturated compounds of carbon, fluorine, chlorine, and hydrogen: used as refrigerants,foam - blowing agents, solvents, and, formerly, as aerosol propellants until scientists became concerned about depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer.
  • Clarification - Verb- To make (an idea, statement, etc.) Clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
  • Clear - Adjective- Free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light.
  • Coalesce - Verb - Come together and form one mass or whole
  • Colloquial - Adjective- Involving or using conversation.
  • Colorful - Adjective- Presenting or suggesting vivid or striking scenes.
  • Commendable - Adjective - Deserving praise
  • Complexity - Noun- The state or quality of being complex; intricacy.
  • Compulsory - Adjective - Required by law or a rule; obligatory
  • Concern - Verb- To relate to; be connected with; be of interest or importance to; affect.
  • Conciliation - Verb- To overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over.
  • Confining - Verb - To keep within bounds; restrict:
  • Confluence - Noun- A flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like.
  • Confronts - Verb - Meet (someone) face to face with hostile or argumentative intent
  • Conglomeration - Noun- A cohering mass; cluster.
  • Conjunction - Noun- A combination of events or circumstances.
  • Consciousness - Noun- The state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
  • Consolation - Noun- The act of consoling; comfort; solace.
  • Constrain - Verb - Severely restrict the scope, extent, or activity of
  • Contemporary - Adjective- Existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time.
  • Contracted - Verb - Decrease in size, number, or range.
  • Controlled - Verb- To exercise restraint or direction over.
  • Convergence - Noun- An act or instance of converging.
  • Convictions - Noun- A fixed or firm belief.
  • Corpulent - Adjective- Large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat.
  • Cosmos - Noun- The world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.
  • Courteous - Adjective - Polite, respectful, or considerate in manner
  • Critical - Adjective- Inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • Criticism - Noun- The act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
  • Critique - Noun - A detailed analysis and assessment of something, esp. A literary, philosophical, or political theory.
  • Crystallize - Verb - Form or cause to form crystals.
  • Cursory - Adjective- Going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial.
  • Dazzled - Verb- To overpower or dim the visionof by intense light.
  • Deadlock - Noun - A situation, typically one involving opposing parties, in which no progress can be made.
  • Debate - Noun- A discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints.
  • Decisive - Adjective- Having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important.
  • Decorum - Noun - Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.
  • Deficiency - Noun- The state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.
  • Defunct - Adjective- No longer in effect or use; not operating or functioning.
  • Degressions - Noun- The decrease in rate in degressive taxation.
  • Deleterious - Adjective- Injurious to health.
  • Demonstration - Noun- The act or circumstance of proving or being proved conclusively, as by reasoning or a show of evidence.
  • Describe - Verb- To tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of.
  • Despondent - Adjective- Feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom.
  • Deterred - Verb- To discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding.
  • Devoid - Adjective - Entirely lacking or free from.
  • Devotion - Noun - Love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause.
  • Diagnosed - Verb- To determine the identityof (a disease, illness, etc.) By a medical examination.
  • Diaspora - Noun- Any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as africans during.
  • Dichotomy - Noun- Division into two parts, kind,etc. subdivision into halves or pairs.
  • Dictates - Verb - Lay down authoritatively; prescribe.
  • Diminishes - Verb - Make or become less.
  • Direction - Noun- A line of thought or action or a tendency or inclination.
  • Disappointed - Adjective- Depressed or discouraged by the failure of one's hopes or expectations.
  • Disdain - Noun - The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect; contempt.
  • Disgusted - Verb - Cause (someone) to feel revulsion or profound disapprova.
  • Disparity - Noun- Lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference.
  • Dissolve - Verb - (of a solid) Become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.
  • Dissuaded - Verb- To deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from ).
  • Distinguish - Verb - Recognize or treat (someone or something) as different.
  • Diurnal - Adjective- Of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily.
  • Divergence - Noun- The act, fact, or amount of diverging.
  • Diversions - Noun- The act of diverting or turning aside, as from a course or purpose.
  • Diversity - Noun - A range of different things.
  • Divine - Adjective - Of, from, or like God or a god.
  • Durable - Adjective- Able to resist wear, decay, etc. well; lasting; enduring.
  • Edges - Noun - The outside limit of an object, area, or surface; a place or part farthest away from the center of something.
  • Emaciated - Adjective- Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
  • Emancipated - Adjective- Not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition, etc.
  • Eminent - Adjective - (of a person) Famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession.
  • Emotions - Noun- An affective state of consciousness in whichjoy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
  • Emphasis - Noun - Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
  • Empirical - Adjective - Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
  • Empiricists - Noun- Undue reliance upon experience, as in medicine.
  • Encouraged - Verb- To inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence; Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
  • Endemic - Adjective- Natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous.
  • Enigmatic - Adjective- Resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.
  • Enigmatic - Adjective- Resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.
  • Enlightenment - Noun- The state of being enlightened.
  • Enraged - Verb- To make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate.
  • Ensnared - Verb- To capture in, or involve as in, a snare.
  • Entertained - Verb- To hold the attention of pleasantly or agreeably; divert; amuse.
  • Enthrall - Verb - Capture the fascinated attention of.
  • Enthusiasm - Noun- Absorbing or controlling possessionof the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest.
  • Entomologist - Noun- The branch of zoology dealing with insects.
  • Ephemeral - Adjective- Lasting a very short time; short - lived; transitory.
  • Equable - Adjective- Free from many changes or variations; uniform.
  • Equivocal - Adjective - Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous.
  • Eradicated - Verb- To remove or destroy utterly; extirpate.
  • Erratically - Adjective - Deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion.
  • Erudite - Adjective - Having or showing great knowledge or learning.
  • Eschew - Verb - Deliberately avoid using; abstain from.
  • Eschewed - Verb- To abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid.
  • Establishment - Noun - The action of establishing something or being established.
  • Evaluate - Verb - Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.
  • Exciting - Adjective - Causing great enthusiasm and eagerness.
  • Exhausted - Verb- To drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person.
  • Exigencies - Noun- Usually, exigencies. The need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition, etc.
  • Explorer - Noun- A person who investigates unknown regions.
  • Extant - Adjective- In existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost.
  • Extensive - Adjective- Of great extent; wide; broad.
  • Extol - Verb - Praise enthusiastically.
  • Extraneous - Adjective - Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
  • Exultant - Adjective- Highly elated; jubilant; triumphant.
  • Failures - Noun- An act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success.
  • Feelings - Noun- Physical sensationnot connected with sight, hearing, taste, or smell.
  • Fettered - Noun- A chain or shackle placed on the feet.
  • Fiercely - Adjective - Having a savage and violent nature.
  • Flexibility - Noun - The quality of bending easily without breaking.
  • Frazer - Noun - A male given name.
  • Freedoms - Noun- The state of being free or at libertyrather than in confinement or under physical restraint.
  • Frivolity - Noun- The quality or state of being frivolous.
  • Frivolous - Adjective - Not having any serious purpose or value.
  • Fundamental - Adjective- Serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying.
  • Garrulous - Adjective - Excessively talkative, esp. On trivial matters.
  • Gluttony - Noun- Excessive eating and drinking.
  • Gregarious - Adjective - (of a person) Fond of company; sociable.
  • Grizzly - Adjective- Somewhat gray; grayish.
  • Guile - Noun- Insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
  • Hampered - Verb- To hold back; hinder; impede.
  • Harbored - Noun- Such a body of water having docks or port facilities.
  • Hardened - Adjective - Having become or been made hard or harder.
  • Hidebound - Adjective - Unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention.
  • Humanity - Noun- The quality or condition of being human; human nature.
  • Idiosyncrasies - Noun - A characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
  • Idyllic - Adjective - Pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity.
  • Imagination - Noun - The faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
  • Imitation - Noun - A literary composition that imitates the manner or subject of another author or work.
  • Impartiality - Adjective - Not partial  or biased; fair; just.
  • Impasse - Noun - A situation in which no progress is possible, esp. Because of disagreement; a deadlock.
  • Imposition - Noun - The action or process of imposing something or of being imposed.
  • Inalienable - Adjective - Unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.
  • Inconceivable - Adjective - Not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable.
  • Inculcated - Verb - Instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction.
  • Indispensable - Adjective - Absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite.
  • Induced - Verb - Succeed in persuading or influencing (someone) to do something.
  • Indulgence - Noun - The act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire.
  • Inertia - Noun - Inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
  • Infestations - Noun - A harassing or troublesome invasion.
  • Inherent - Adjective - Existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute.
  • Innocuous - Adjective - Not harmful or injurious; harmless.
  • Insect - Noun - Any small arthropod, such as a spider, tick, or centipede, having a superficial, general similarity to the insects.
  • Insight - Noun - Penetrating mental visionor discernment; faculty of seeing into inner character or underlying truth.
  • Insisted - Verb - To be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.
  • Insubordinate - Adjective - Not submitting to authority; disobedient.
  • Insurmountable - Adjective - Too great to be overcome.
  • Interim - Adjective - In or for the intervening period; provisional or temporary.
  • Intermingling - Verb - To mingle, one with another; intermix.
  • Interviewees - Noun - A person who is interviewed.
  • Intimately - Adjective - Associated in close personal relations.
  • Inure - Verb - Accustom (someone) to something, esp. Something unpleasant.
  • Investigation - Noun - The act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.
  • Ironic - Adjective - Happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry amusement because of this.
  • Irreplaceable - Adjective - Impossible to replace.
  • Itinerant - Noun - A person who travels from place to place with no fixed home.
  • Jargon - Noun - Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.
  • Jocose - Adjective - Playful or humorous.
  • Juxtaposition - Noun - An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
  • Jaunty - Adjective - Having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner.
  • Legitimate - Adjective - Conforming to the law or to rules.
  • Lethal - Adjective - Sufficient to cause death.
  • Levity - Noun - Humor or frivolity, esp. The treatment of a serious matter with humor or in a manner lacking due respect.
  • Liberty - Noun- Freedom of choice; familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, autonomy, shore leave.
  • Lithe - Adjective - Thin, supple, and graceful.
  • Logic - Noun - The science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference.
  • Lucidity - Noun - The quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible.
  • Lugubrious - Adjective - Looking or sounding sad and dismal.
  • Maltreated - Verb - Treat (a person or animal) cruelly or with violence.
  • Meager - Adjective - (of something provided or available) Lacking in quantity or quality.
  • Meanders - Verb - (of a river or road) Follow a winding course.
  • Melancholy - Noun - A deep, pensive, and long-lasting sadness.
  • Mercurial - Adjective - (of a person) Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
  • Merger - Noun - Any combination of two or more business enterprises into a single enterprise.
  • Merits - Noun - The quality of being particularly good or worthy, esp. So as to deserve praise or reward.
  • Meticulous - Adjective - Taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough.
  • Midst - Noun - The middle point, part, or stage (usually preceded by the ).
  • Miserly - Adjective - Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser.
  • Mitigates - Verb - Make less severe, serious, or painful.
  • Mundane - Adjective - Lacking interest or excitement; dull.
  • Necessity - Noun - The fact of being required or indispensable.
  • Negotiations - Noun - Discussion aimed at reaching an agreement.
  • Nocturnal - Adjective - Of or pertaining to the night.
  • Noxious - Adjective - Harmful or injurious to health or physical well - being.
  • Obdurate - Adjective - Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
  • Obligations - Noun - Something by whicha person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.
  • Obscured - Verb - Keep from being seen; conceal.
  • Obscurity - Noun - The condition of being unknown.
  • Observations - Noun - An act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • Obtuse - Adjective - Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
  • Orator - Noun - A person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence.
  • Outbursts - Noun - A sudden release of strong emotion.
  • Outstanding - Adjective - Prominent; conspicuous; striking.
  • Overwrought - Adjective - In a state of nervous excitement or anxiety.
  • Pains - Noun - An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
  • Paradox - Noun - A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
  • Parch - Verb - To make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
  • Patronizing - Adjective - Displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner.
  • Percepts - Noun - A general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought.
  • Peripheral - Adjective - Of, relating to, or situated on the edge or periphery of something.
  • Persistent - Adjective - Lasting or enduring tenaciously.
  • Persona - Noun - The narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author.
  • Pertinacity - Noun - The quality of being pertinacious;  persistence.
  • Pertinent - Adjective - Pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant.
  • Petty - Adjective - Of little importance; trivial.
  • Phelgmatic - Adjective - (of a person) Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.
  • Philosophical - Adjective - Of or relating to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
  • Pleased - AdVerb - (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) If you would be so obliging; kindly.
  • Polemicists - Noun - A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
  • Polemics - Noun - The art or practice of argumentation or controversy.
  • Pollinators - Verb - To convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
  • Polymyelitis - Noun - An infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system and can cause paralysis.
  • Portents - Noun - An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen.
  • Possess - Verb - Have possession of as distinct from ownership.
  • Potential - Adjective - Capable of being or becoming.
  • Practical - Adjective - Of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something.
  • Pragmatists - Noun - A practical, matter - of - fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems.
  • Precocious - Adjective - Manifesting or characterized by unusually early development or maturity, especially in mental aptitude.
  • Prefunctory - Adjective - Performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial.
  • Prescribed - Verb - Recommend (a substance or action) as something beneficial.
  • Presence - Noun - The state or fact of existing, occurring, or being present in a place or thing.
  • Prevalent - Adjective - Widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
  • Prevented - Verb - To keep from occurring; avert; hinder.
  • Produce - Verb - To bring into existence; give rise to; cause.
  • Professional - Adjective - Following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain.
  • Profundity - Noun - The quality or state of being profound; depth.
  • Propitious - Adjective - Presenting favorable conditions; favorable.
  • Propriety - Noun - The state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals.
  • Provocations - Noun - Something that causes indignation, anger, etc.
  • Provoking - Verb - Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone.
  • Qualities - Noun - An essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute.
  • Querulous - Adjective- Habitually complaining; fretful, whiney, whiny.
  • Quotidian - Adjective - Usual or customary; everyday.
  • Raged - Noun - Angry fury; violent anger.
  • Rages - Noun - Violent, uncontrollable anger.
  • Rare - Adjective - Coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon.
  • Reactionary - Noun - A person who holds such views.
  • Reasons - Noun - A basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.
  • Recorded - Verb - To setdown in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
  • Recalcitrant - Adjective - Marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance.
  • Regime - Noun - A government, esp. An authoritarian one.
  • Related - Adjective - Belonging to the same family, group, or type; connected.
  • Relieved - Adjective - Experiencing relief, esp from worry or anxiety.
  • Relinquishj - Verb - To give up (a task, struggle, etc.); abandon.
  • Remote - Adjective - Far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away.
  • Renovated - Verb - To restore (something) to good condition.
  • Renowned - Adjective - Known or talked about by many people; famous.
  • Repudiated - Verb - To reject the authority or validity of; refuse to accept or ratify.
  • Resemblance - Noun - Something that resembles another; a likeness or semblance.
  • Resolution - Noun - A firm decision to do or not to do something.
  • Responsibilities - Noun - An instance of being responsible.
  • Restraints - Noun - A restraining action or influence.
  • Resurgent - Adjective - Experiencing or tending to bring about renewal or revival.
  • Retain - Verb - To keep in one's possession.
  • Reveled - Verb - To take part in noisy festivities; make merry.
  • Reverence - Noun - Deep respect for.
  • Rhetoric - Noun - (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
  • Rights - Adjective - Civil - rights: a rights worker.
  • Salutary - Adjective - (esp. With reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant) Producing good effects; beneficial.
  • Savor - Noun - The quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
  • Scented - Noun - A distinctive odor, especially when agreeable.
  • Scientific - Adjective - Of or pertaining to science or the sciences.
  • Sedentary - Adjective - Characterized by or requiring much sitting.
  • Sedulous - Adjective - Diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
  • Similar - Adjective - Having a resemblance in appearance, character, or quantity, without being identical.
  • Skillful - Adjective - Possessing or exercising skill; expert.
  • Slighted - Adjective - Small in size, degree, or amount.
  • Solely - Adverb - Not involving anyone or anything else.
  • Solemnity - Noun - The state or quality of being serious and dignified.
  • Sophistry - Noun - The use of fallacious arguments, esp. With the intention of deceiving.
  • Sporadic - Adjective - Appearing in scattered or isolated instances, as a disease.
  • Staging - Noun - An instance or method of presenting a play or other dramatic performance.
  • Stereotypes - Noun - A plate made by this process.
  • Stifled - Verb - Restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion.
  • Strict - Adjective - Demanding that rules concerning behavior are obeyed and observed.
  • Strictures - Noun - A remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism.
  • Superficial - Adjective - Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; Existing or occurring at or on the surface; shallow.
  • Superstitions - Noun - Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings..
  • Surrounded - Verb - To enclose on all sides; encompass.
  • Swelling - Noun - The condition of being or becoming swollen.
  • Taciturn - Adjective - (of a person) Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
  • Tardy - Adjective - Delaying or delayed beyond the right or expected time; late.
  • Tarnscend - Verb - Be or go beyond the range or limits of (something abstract, typically a conceptual field or division).
  • Teeming - Verb - Be full of or swarming with.
  • Temperaments - Noun - A person's or animal's nature, esp. As it permanently affects their behavior.
  • Terrestrial - Adjective - Pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth as distinct from other planets.
  • Theorists - Noun - The originator of a theory; a person who is concerned with theory; a theoretician.
  • Threat - Noun - An indication or warning of probable trouble.
  • Thriving - Verb - To make steady progress; prosper.
  • Tractable - Adjective - (of a person or animal) Easy to control or influence.
  • Tranquillity - Noun - Quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity.
  • Trekked - Verb - To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
  • Trespassing - Verb - Enter the owner's land or property without permission.
  • Tricksters - Noun - One that swindles or plays tricks.
  • Triteness - Adjective - Characterized by hackneyed expressions, ideas, etc.
  • Triumph - Noun - A great victory or achievement..
  • Trudges - Verb - Walk slowly and with heavy steps, typically because of exhaustion or harsh conditions..
  • Trouble - Noun - A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need.
  • Truncate - Adjective - Appearing to terminate abruptly, as a leaf of a tulip tree or a coiled gastropod shell that lacks a spire.
  • Tumult - Noun - Violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar.
  • Turbulence - Noun - The quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
  • Ubiquitous - Adjective - Present, appearing, or found everywhere:
  • Unacceptable - Adjective - Not satisfactory or allowable.
  • Unanimity - Noun - Agreement by all people involved; consensus.
  • Unchallenged - Adjective - Not disputed or questioned.
  • Undervalued - Verb - Rate (something) insufficiently highly; fail to appreciate.
  • Unevenness - Adjective - Not level or flat; rough; rugged.
  • Unknown - Adjective - Not known or familiar.
  • Unseemly - Adjective - (of behavior or actions) Not proper or appropriate.
  • Unsupported - Adjective - (of a structure, object, or person) Not supported physically..
  • Untoward - Adjective - Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient.
  • Unusual - Adjective - Not usual, common, or ordinary; uncommon in amount or degree; exceptional.
  • Unwarranted - Adjective - Not justified or authorized.
  • Unwilling - Adjective - Not willing; hesitant or loath.
  • Uphill - Adverb - In an ascending direction up a hill or slope.
  • Vagaries - Noun - An extravagant or erratic notion or action.
  • Valued - Adjective - Considered to be important or beneficial; cherished.
  • Vexed - Adjective - Irritated, distressed, or annoyed.
  • Violence - Noun - Rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment.
  • Virtually - Adverb - Nearly; almost.
  • Virtue - Noun - Behavior showing high moral standards.
  • Weighty - Adjective - Weighing a great deal; heavy.
  • Whimsical - Adjective - Playfully quaint or fanciful, esp. In an appealing and amusing way.


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Exercises for GRE Sentence

Completion / Equivalence
Reading Comprehension

Complete the sentence with appropriate words meaning from the options given below;

Q.1. The genes in bacterial genomes are usually a single continuous stretch of DNA and although several different types of introns do exist in bacteria, these are much more rare than in __________.


1. Prokaryotes
Wrong answer as the prokaryotes are a group of organisms that lack a cell nucleus (karyon), or any other membrane-bound organelles

2. Eukaryotes
Right answer as a eukaryote is an organism whose cells contain complex structures (nucleus) enclosed within membranes. Eukaryotes may more formally be referred to as the taxon Eukarya or Eukaryota.

3. Organelles
Wrong answer as - an organelle is a specialized subunit within a cell that has a specific function, and is usually separately enclosed within its own lipid bilayer.

4. Amoebae
Wrong answer as:- Amoeba is a genus of Protozoa consisting of shapeless unicellular organisms.



Q.2. The opposite of motility is __________.


1. Substrate
Wrong answer:- as substrate is the surface where a plant or animal lives upon and grows on. A substrate can include biotic or abiotic materials and animals.

2. Glycolysis
Wrong answer:- Glycolysis is the metabolic pathway that converts glucose C6H12O6, into pyruvate, CH3COCOO− + H+. The free energy released in this process is used to form the high-energy compounds ATP (adenosine triphosphate), FADH2 and NADH (reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide).

3. Hydrolysis
Wrong answer:- Hydrolysis usually means the rupture of chemical bonds by the addition of water.

4. Sessility
Right answer:- As Motility is a biological term which refers to the ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process & In zoology, sessility is a characteristic of some animals, such that they are not able to move about.like, Sponges have a motile larval stage.



Q.3. Anabolism (from Greek ana, "upward", and ballein, "to throw") is the set of __________ that construct __________ from smaller units.


1. metabolic pathways- molecules
Right answer:- as metabolic pathways are series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell & A molecule is an electrically neutral group of two or more atoms held together by covalent chemical bonds.

2. organs - tissues
Wrong answer:- as an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function & Tissue (biology), is a group of biological cells that perform a similar function.

3. Carbohydrates- metabolism
Wrong answer:- A carbohydrate is an organic compound that consists only of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, & Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that happen in the cells of living organisms to sustain life.

4. Anabolic –steroids
Wrong answer:- Anabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that construct molecules from smaller units & A steroid is a type of organic compound that contains a characteristic arrangement of four cycloalkane rings that are joined to each other.



Q.4. Diffraction refers to various phenomena which occur when a wave encounters an __________.


1. Animal
Wrong Answer

2. Aeroplane
Wrong Answer

3. Obstacle.
Right Answer

4. Lens
Wrong Answer



Q.5. A chemical reaction is a __________ of some substances into one or more other substances.


1. Conversion
Wrong Answer

2. Inter-changeable
Wrong Answer

3. Chemical bonding
Wrong Answer

4. Transformation
Right Answer



Q.6. Lycanthropy is __________ .


1. A deadly viral disease
Wrong Answer

2. Getting one murdered
Wrong Answer

3. Playing with dogs
Wrong Answer

4. Feeling like a wolf
Right Answer



Q.7. Microscopy is the technical field of using __________to view samples and objects that cannot be seen with the unaided eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye). There are three well-known branches of microscopy: __________, electron, and scanning probe microscopy.


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1. Microscopes
Right Answer

2. Microscopic
    animals
Wrong Answer

3. Minute
    creatures
Wrong Answer

4. Small plants
Wrong Answer



1. Optimistry
Wrong Answer

2. Optical
Right Answer

3. Optimism
Wrong Answer

4. Octography
Wrong Answer

Q.8. The __________ also known as the Shoah, was the __________of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany.


1. Homicide
Wrong Answer

2. Holocaust
Right Answer

3. Inundation
Wrong Answer

4. Deluge
Wrong Answer

5. genocide
Right Answer



Q.9. Christophany, Satanophany, afflatus, angelophany, apocalypse, apparition, avatar are all just like __________.


1. Xenophany
Wrong Answer

2. Cryptography
Wrong Answer

3. Epiphany
Right Answer

4. Exposition
Wrong Answer



Q.10. His ______________ drew more applause from the audience than the entire play.


1. Epilogue
Right Answer

2. Pretest
Wrong Answer

3. Lecture
Wrong Answer

4. Protest
Wrong Answer





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