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  • Abridged - Verb - To shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents: to abridge a reference book.
  • Abstemious - Adjective - Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
  • Accelerated - Verb - To cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc.
  • Acceleration - Noun - The act of accelerating; increase of speed or velocity.
  • Accusatory - Adjective - Containing an accusation; accusing.
  • Acoustics - Noun - The branch of physics that deals with sound and sound waves.
  • Adjudicate - Verb - To pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • Administrators - Noun - A person who manages or has a talent for managing.
  • Adopt - Verb - To choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent.
  • Adoring - Verb - To regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
  • Affluent - Adjective - Having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich.
  • Alchemy - Noun - Any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.
  • Alleviate - Verb - To make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
  • Alliteration - Noun - The commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid.
  • Allusion - Noun - A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.
  • Amateur - Noun - A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons.
  • Amplification - Noun - A statement, narrative, etc., so expanded.
  • Amputating - Verb - To cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
  • Analogy - Noun - A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
  • Anemia - Noun - A lack of power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness.
  • Annihilated - Verb - To reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly.
  • Annoyed - Verb - To disturb or bother (a person) in a way that displeases, troubles, or slightly irritates.
  • Anodyne - Noun - A medicine that relieves or allays pain.
  • Anomalous - Adjective - Incongruous or inconsistent.
  • Anthropomorphism - Noun - An anthropomorphic conception or representation, as of a deity.
  • Aperture - Noun - An opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc.
  • Apogee - Noun - The highest or most distant point; climax.
  • Apothecary - Noun - A druggist; a pharmacist.
  • Appetizing - Adjective - Appealing to or stimulating the appetite; savory.
  • Arboretum - Noun - A plot of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown for study or display.
  • Arsenal - Noun - A place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.
  • Ascend - Verb - To move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise.
  • Asperger - Noun - Developmental disorder characterized by severely impaired social skills, repetitive behaviors, and often, a narrow set of interests, but not involving delayed development of linguistic and cognitive abilities.
  • Assumption - Noun - The act of taking for granted or supposing.
  • Asteroid - Noun - Zoology . An asteroidean; a starfish.
  • Astigmatism - Noun - A refractive error of the eye in which parallel rays of light from an external source do not converge on a single focal point on the retina.
  • Atavism - Noun - An individual embodying such a reversion.
  • Atrophy - Noun - A wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  • Authentication - Verb - To establish as genuine.
  • Autopsy - Noun - An analysis of something after it has been done or made.
  • Autotomy - Noun - The performance of surgery upon oneself.
  • Avid - Adjective - Showing great enthusiasm for or interest in.
  • Beautify - Verb - To make or become beautiful.
  • Belligerent - Adjective - Warlike; given to waging war.
  • Bestow - Verb - To present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon ).
  • Betide - Verb - To happen to; come to; befall.
  • Betrays - Verb - To be unfaithful in guarding, maintaining, or fulfilling.
  • Biodiversity - Noun - Diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment.
  • Blase - Adjective - Indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
  • Blithely - Adjective - Joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful.
  • Blizzards - Noun - An inordinately large amount all at one time; avalanche.
  • Brutal - Adjective - Savage; cruel; inhuman.
  • Camouflage - Noun - Concealment by some means that alters or obscures the appearance.
  • Cartographer - Noun - A person engaged in cartography, or the production of maps.
  • Castigates - Verb - To criticize or reprimand severely.
  • Cataract - Noun - A descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, especially one of considerable size.
  • Catharsis - Noun - The purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.
  • Censorious - Adjective - Severely critical; faultfinding; carping.
  • Centrifuge - Noun - An apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • Chameleon - Noun - A changeable, fickle, or inconstant person.
  • Chisel - Noun - A wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
  • Chronic - Adjective - Constant; habitual; inveterate.
  • Chronological - Adjective - Arranged in the order of time.
  • Cipher - Noun - Something of no value or importance.
  • Cistern - Noun - A reservoir, tank, or container for storing or holding water or other liquid.
  • Clavicle - Noun - A bone of the pectoral arch.
  • Coerce - Verb - To compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition.
  • Coercive - Adjective - Serving or tending to coerce.
  • Cohesion - Noun - The act or state of cohering, uniting, or sticking together.
  • Coincidence - Noun - A striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance.
  • Collaborate - Verb - To work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work.
  • Collarbone - Noun - The clavicle.
  • Colloquial - Adjective - Characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
  • Combat - Verb - To fight or contend against; oppose vigorously.
  • Combativeness - Adjective - Ready or inclined to fight; pugnacious.
  • Compile - Verb - To put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
  • Component - Noun - A constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • Comprehensible - Adjective - Capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • Compressed - Adjective - Pressed into less space; condensed.
  • Compromise - Noun - An endangering, especially of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion, etc.
  • Concede - Verb - To acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit.
  • Concussion - Noun - Injury to the brain or spinal cord due to jarring from a blow, fall, or the like.
  • Conglomeration - Noun - The act of conglomerating; the state of being conglomerated.
  • Congruence - Noun - The quality or state of agreeing or corresponding.
  • Conjures - Verb - To affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell.
  • Conniving - Verb - To cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed by with).
  • Consequence - Noun - The effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier.
  • Consistency - Noun - A degree of density, firmness, viscosity, etc.
  • Conspire - Verb - To agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal.
  • Contemplated - Verb - To consider thoroughly; think fully or deeply about.
  • Contentment - Noun - The state of being contented; satisfaction; ease of mind.
  • Contextualizes - Verb - To put (a linguistic element, an action, etc.) In a context, especially one that is characteristic or appropriate, as for purposes of study.
  • Contradicts - Verb - To assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • Contrast - Verb - To compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc.
  • Controversial - Adjective - Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of controversy; polemical.
  • Conviction - Noun - A fixed or firm belief.
  • Cosmic - Adjective - Characteristic of the cosmos or its phenomena.
  • Credentials - Noun - Anything that provides the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc.
  • Creeps - Noun - A disease of the bones in sheep and cattle that causes pain in walking, resulting from a deficiency of phosphorus in the diet.
  • Criticism - Noun - The act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
  • Criticizing - Verb - To censure or find fault with.
  • Crucial - Adjective - Involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical.
  • Culpability - Noun - Guilt or blame that is deserved.
  • Cumbersome - Adjective - Burdensome; troublesome.
  • Cumulative - Adjective - Increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions.
  • Curiosity - Noun - The desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness.
  • Curtailed - Verb - To cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
  • Deference - Noun - Respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
  • Dejected - Adjective - Depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited.
  • Delectable - Adjective - Delightful; highly pleasing; enjoyable.
  • Deliberate - Adjective - Carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional.
  • Deliberate - Verb - To think about carefully; weigh; turn over.
  • Denigrating - Verb - To speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame.
  • Denounce - Verb - To condemn or censure openly or publicly.
  • Depict - Verb - To represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.
  • Depreciate - Verb - To reduce the purchasing value of (money).
  • Descend - Verb - To go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down.
  • Despondent - Adjective - Feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom.
  • Deteriorate - Verb - To make or become worse or inferior in character, quality, value, etc.
  • Detonated - Verb - To explode with suddenness and violence.
  • Devastating - Adjective - Tending or threatening to devastate.
  • Developed - Verb - To cause to grow or expand.
  • Devoted - Adjective - Zealous or ardent in attachment, loyalty, or affection.
  • Devour - Verb - To swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
  • Dichotomy - Noun - Division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
  • Differentiated - Verb - To form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
  • Diminutive - Adjective - Small; little; tiny.
  • Diminutive - Adjective - Small; little; tiny.
  • Disastrous - Adjective - Causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous.
  • Disclosure - Noun - The act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • Discredit - Verb - To injure the credit or reputation of; defame.
  • Disreputable - Adjective - Not reputable; having a bad reputation.
  • Diverse - Adjective - Of a different kind, form, character, etc.; unlike.
  • Domestic - Adjective - Of or pertaining to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family.
  • Dormant - Adjective - Lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep.
  • Dreary - Adjective - Causing sadness or gloom.
  • Eccentric - Adjective - Deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd.
  • Edible - Adjective - Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent.
  • Embarrassed - Verb - To cause confusion and shame to; make uncomfortably self-conscious; disconcert; abash.
  • Emphasize - Verb - To give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stres.
  • Emphatic - Adjective - Uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • Empirical - Adjective - Derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
  • Encryption - Verb - To encipher or encode.
  • Encyclopedia - Noun - A book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.
  • Enforce - Verb - To put or keep in force; compel obedience to.
  • Enhancing - Verb - To raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify.
  • Enormous - Adjective - Greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
  • Equilibrium - Noun - A state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
  • Equipped - Verb - To furnish or provide with whatever is needed for use or for any undertaking; fit out, as a ship or army.
  • Equivocal - Adjective - Of uncertain significance; not determined.
  • Equivocation - Noun - The use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication.
  • Escape - Verb - To slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint.
  • Esoteric - Adjective - Understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite.
  • Ethical - Adjective - Pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • Euphemism - Noun - The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
  • Euphoric - Adjective - Intensely happy or confident.
  • Evaluating - Verb - To determine or set the value or amount of; appraise.
  • Evolution - Noun - Any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language.
  • Exaggeration - Noun - The act of exaggerating or overstating.
  • Exalts - Verb - To raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, elevate.
  • Exasperated - Verb - To irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely.
  • Exhaled - Verb - To emit breath or vapor; breathe out.
  • Exhilarating - Verb - To make cheerful or merry.
  • Expedites - Verb - To speed up the progress of; hasten.
  • Exponentially - Adjective - Of or pertaining to an exponent or exponents.
  • Exposure to - Noun - Disclosure, as of something private or secret.
  • Factual - Adjective - Of or pertaining to facts; concerning facts.
  • Fastidious - Adjective - Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please.
  • Fear - Noun - Something that causes feelings of dread or apprehension; something a person is afraid of.
  • Feckless - Adjective - Ineffective; incompetent; futile.
  • Fervent - Adjective - Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent.
  • Fiery - Adjective - Consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire.
  • Finite - Adjective - Having bounds or limits; not infinite; measurable.
  • Flaunting - Verb - To parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
  • Flossing - Noun - The cottony fiber yielded by the silk-cotton tree.
  • Folksy - Adjective - Friendly or neighborly; sociable.
  • Foolhardy - Adjective - Recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • Foreshadowing - Verb - To show or indicate beforehand; prefigure.
  • Forgetfulness - Adjective - Apt to forget; that forgets.
  • Frail - Adjective - Having delicate health; not robust; weak.
  • Freeing - Adjective - Enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery.
  • Galvanized - Verb - To stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • Gleaned - Verb - To gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
  • Guile - Noun - Insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
  • Gullible - Adjective - Easily deceived or cheated.
  • Gullible - Adjective - Easily deceived or cheated.
  • Gulp - Verb - To gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.
  • Habitual - Adjective - Commonly used or practiced; usual, accustomed, customary, wonted.
  • Hasty - Adjective - Moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
  • Hazardous - Adjective - Full of risk; perilous; risky.
  • Hobbyists - Noun - An activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation.
  • Homogeneity - Noun - Composition from like parts, elements, or characteristic.
  • Honor - Noun - Honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions.
  • Hyperbole - Noun - Obvious and intentional exaggeration.
  • Hypothesis - Noun - A proposition assumed as a premise in an argument.
  • Hypothesize - Verb - To form a hypothesis.
  • Identifiable - Verb - To recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of.
  • Iditarod - Noun - An important dogsled race run annually on the iditarod trail.
  • Immunization - Noun - The fact or process of becoming immune, as against a disease.
  • Impact - Noun - The striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision.
  • Impediment - Noun - Obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
  • Impenetrable - Adjective - Not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
  • Imperturbablity - Adjective - Not easily perturbed; calm; unruffled .
  • Implication. - Noun - The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
  • Implicit - Adjective - Implied, rather than expressly stated.
  • Impose - Verb - To lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.
  • Impoverished - Adjective - Deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness, etc.
  • Impressionism - Noun - A theory and practice in literature that emphasizes immediate aspects of objects or actions without attention to details.
  • Incapacitated - Adjective - Unable to act, respond, or the like (often used euphemistically when one is busy or otherwise occupied).
  • Incubating - Verb - To sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
  • Indignant - Adjective - Feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or bas.
  • Indignation - Noun - Strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
  • Indiscriminating - Adjective - Not discriminating.
  • Industrious - Adjective - Working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent.
  • Ineffectual - Adjective - Not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect.
  • Inefficient - Adjective - Not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means.
  • Inferred - Verb - To guess; speculate; surmise.
  • Infestation - Noun - The act of infesting; state of being infested.
  • Informative - Adjective - Giving information; instructive.
  • Infringe - Verb - To commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress.
  • Inoculation - Noun - The act or process of inoculating.
  • Inquisitive - Adjective - Given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge.
  • Insidious - Adjective - Intended to entrap or beguile.
  • Insignificant - Adjective - Unimportant, trifling, or petty.
  • Insipid - Adjective - Without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities.
  • Instilling - Verb - Instill.
  • Intelligibility - Adjective - Able to be understood; comprehensible.
  • Interchangeably - Adjective - (of two things) capable of being put or used in the place of each other.
  • Intimidate - Verb - To force into or deter from some action by inducing fear.
  • Intimidating - Verb - To make timid; fill with fear.
  • Intrigue - Verb - To arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate.
  • Invasive - Adjective - Characterized by or involving invasion; offensive.
  • Ironically - Adjective - Using or prone to irony: an ironical speaker.
  • Irony - Noun - The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
  • Irreparable - Adjective - Not reparable; incapable of being rectified, remedied, or made good.
  • Isolated - Adjective - Separated from other persons or things; alone; solitary.
  • Jubilant - Adjective - Showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant.
  • Juxtapose -Verb - To place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
  • Lackluster - Adjective - Lacking brilliance or radiance; dull.
  • Laudable - Adjective - Deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable.
  • Littered - Noun - Objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
  • Loquacity - Noun - The state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
  • Magnificent - Adjective - Making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.
  • Malevolent - Adjective - Evil; harmful; injurious.
  • Malfunctioned - Noun - Failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver.
  • Meager - Adjective - Deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate.
  • Mediocre - Adjective - Not satisfactory; poor; inferior.
  • Mercy - Noun - The disposition to be compassionate or forbearing.
  • Metamorphosed - Verb - To change the form or nature of; transform.
  • Mettlesome - Adjective - Spirited; courageous.
  • Misinterpretation - Verb - To interpret, explain, or understand incorrectly.
  • Mitigate - Verb - To lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
  • Modulated - Verb - To regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
  • Mollifies - Verb - To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
  • Moralistic - Noun - A person who teaches or inculcates morality.
  • Negligence - Noun - The quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect.
  • Neutral - Adjective - Not taking part or giving assistance in a dispute or war between others.
  • Niche - Noun - A place or position suitable or appropriate for a person or thing.
  • Nosy - Adjective - Unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying; meddlesome.
  • Notorious - Adjective - Widely and unfavorably known: a notorious gambler.
  • Nuances - Noun - A subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
  • Nurturing - Verb - To feed and protect.
  • Obesity - Noun - The condition of being very fat or overweight; corpulence.
  • Obscurity - Noun - The condition of being unknown.
  • Observant - Adjective - Quick to notice or perceive; alert.
  • Observing - Verb - To see, watch, perceive, or notice.
  • Obsessive - Adjective - Being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession.
  • Octopus - Noun - Something likened to an octopus, as an organization with many forms of far-reaching influence or control.
  • Offense - Noun - A violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
  • Offering - Noun - Something presented for inspection or sale.
  • Ominous - Adjective - Portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening.
  • Onomatopoeia - Noun - The use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect.
  • Opinionated - Adjective - Obstinate or conceited with regard to the merit of one's own opinions.
  • Opponent - Noun - A person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
  • Optimistic - Adjective - Disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • Outbreak - Noun - A sudden breaking out or occurrence; eruption.
  • Overwhelmingly - Adjective - So great as to render resistance or opposition useless.
  • Oxymoron - Noun - A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
  • Painstaking - Noun - Careful and diligent effort.
  • Pathetic - Adjective - Causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable.
  • Pathogens - Noun - Any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
  • Pedanticalness - Adjective - Ostentatious in one's learning.
  • Perilous - Adjective - Involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous.
  • Perpetrators - Noun - A person who perpetrates, or commits, an illegal, criminal, or evil act.
  • Personification - Noun - The representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art.
  • Persuade - Verb - To prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging.
  • Persuasive - Adjective - Able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • Pervasive - Adjective - Spread throughout.
  • Petite - Adjective - (of a woman) short and having a small, trim figure; diminutive.
  • Playwrights - Noun - A writer of plays; dramatist.
  • Portends - Verb - To indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does.
  • Postpone - Verb - To put off to a later time; defer.
  • Pragmatic - Adjective - Of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
  • Precarious - Adjective - Dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure.
  • Precipitation - Noun - The act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
  • Presumptuous - Adjective - Full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought.
  • Proactive - Adjective - Serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipator.
  • Probity - Noun - Integrity and uprightness; honesty.
  • Proportion - Noun - Comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
  • Provisions - Noun - A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • Proximity - Noun - Nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
  • Proximity - Noun - Nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
  • Purging - Verb - To rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
  • Purported - Adjective - Reputed or claimed; alleged.
  • Quibble - Noun - Petty or carping criticism; a minor objection. .
  • Ravages - Verb - To work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages.
  • Razed - Verb - To tear down; demolish; level to the ground.
  • Reassure - Verb - To restore to assurance or confidence.
  • Recklessness - Adjective - Characterized by or proceeding from such carelessness.
  • Recognition - Noun - The identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, etc.
  • Reform - Verb - To form again.
  • Refrained - Verb - To abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from).
  • Regrowing - Verb - To increase gradually in size, amount, etc.; become greater or larger; expand.
  • Reiterates - Verb - To say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
  • Relegated - Verb - To consign or commit (a matter, task, etc.), as to a person.
  • Reliance upon - Noun - Confident or trustful dependence.
  • Relics - Noun - A surviving memorial of something past.
  • Reluctant - Adjective - Unwilling; disinclined.
  • Reluctant - Adjective - Unwilling; disinclined.
  • Remorse - Noun - Deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction.
  • Remorseful - Adjective - Characterized by or due to remorse.
  • Repeal - Verb - To revoke or withdraw formally or officially.
  • Reproof - Noun - The act of reproving, censuring, or rebuking.
  • Resonate - Verb - To act as a resonator; exhibit resonance.
  • Resurgence - Adjective - Rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
  • Reticent - Adjective - Disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
  • Reverberate - Verb - To reecho or resound.
  • Revolutionary - Adjective - Radically new or innovative; outside or beyond established procedure, principles, etc.
  • Rueful - Adjective - Causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable.
  • Rumored - Noun - A story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts.
  • Speculative - Adjective - Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning.
  • Suppositions - Noun - Something that is supposed; assumption; hypothesis.
  • Simile - Noun - An instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.
  • Shrewd - Adjective - Astute or sharp in practical matters.
  • Sclerite - Noun - Any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
  • Solemn - Adjective - Grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood.
  • Sarcasm - Noun - Harsh or bitter derision or irony.
  • Solely - Adverb - As the only one or ones.
  • Subsequent - Adjective - Following in order or succession; succeeding: a subsequent section in a treaty.
  • Sarcastic - Adjective - Of, pertaining to, or characterized by sarcasm.
  • Surmised - Verb - To think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
  • Squirting - Verb - To eject a spurt of liquid.
  • Sacrificing - Noun - The offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
  • Sparsely - Adjective - Thinly scattered or distributed.
  • Skeptical - Adjective - Inclined to skepticism; having doubt.
  • Synthesis - Noun - A complex whole formed by combining.
  • Soaring - Noun - The sport of flying a sailplane.
  • Swarmed - Noun - A body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
  • Staggering - Adjective - Tending to stagger or overwhelm.
  • Susceptible - Adjective - Admitting or capable of some specified treatment.
  • Stimulate - Verb - To invigorate (a person) by a food or beverage containing a stimulant, as coffee, tea, or alcoholic liquor.
  • Snooping - Noun - An act or instance of snooping.
  • Stigma - Noun - A mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
  • Stipulations - Noun - A condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
  • Submissive - Adjective - Inclined or ready to submit; unresistingly or humbly obedient.
  • Slaughtered - Noun - The killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
  • Starving - Verb - To die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • Sensationalism - Noun - The use of or interest in this subject matter, language, or style.
  • Scoured - Verb - To remove dirt, grease, etc., from or to cleanse or polish by hard rubbing, as with a rough or abrasive material.
  • Spurious - Adjective - Not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
  • Significance - Noun - Importance; consequence.
  • Specific - Adjective - Specified, precise, or particular.
  • Simplicity - Noun - The state, quality, or an instance of being simple.
  • Satisfaction - Noun - An act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
  • Success- Noun - The favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors.
  • Susceptibility - Noun - State or character of being susceptible.
  • Tactile - Adjective - Of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch.
  • Tautologous - Noun - An instance of such repetition.
  • Thwarted - Verb - To oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
  • Touting - Verb - To solicit business, employment, votes, or the like, importunately.
  • Trimmed - Verb - To put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc.
  • Trouble - Verb - To disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • Tweezers - Noun - Small pincers or nippers for plucking out hairs, extracting splinters, picking up small objects, etc.
  • Usurping - Verb - To use without authority or right; employ wrongfully.
  • Unnoticeable - Adjective - Attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed.
  • Unwieldy - Adjective - Not wieldy; wielded with difficulty; not readily handled or managed in use or action, as from size, shape, or weight; awkward; ungainly.
  • Unappealing - Adjective - Evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive.
  • Unfettering - Verb - To release from fetters.
  • Uninsured - Noun - The person, group, or organizationwhose life or property is covered by an insurance policy.
  • Unsustainable - Adjective - Not sustainable; not to be supported, maintained, upheld, or corroborated.
  • Ubiquitous - Adjective - Existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent.
  • Utilitarian - Adjective - Having regard to utility or usefulness rather than beauty, ornamentation, etc.
  • Uncouth - Adjective - Strange and ungraceful in appearance or form.
  • Undercutting - Verb - To cut under or beneath.
  • Vague - Adjective - Not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed.
  • Venturing - Noun - An undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one.
  • Veterans - Noun - A person who has served in a military force, especially one who has fought in a war.
  • Vicious - Adjective - Spiteful; malicious: vicious gossip.
  • Vigilant - Adjective - Keenly watchful to detect danger; wary.
  • Vulnerable - Adjective - Capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon.
  • Wisdom - Noun - Scholarly knowledge or learning.
  • Wreckage - Noun - Remains or fragments of something that has been wrecked.
  • Wrenched - Verb - To affect distressingly as if by a wrench.
  • Yodeled - Verb - To call or shout in a similar fashion.


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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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