33 words that will fool you
Words for Smart Test Takers Chapter 4
單詞卡: 33
- 1.
- to approach and confront boldly
- 2.
- to imitate, mimic, or impersonate
- 3.
- to declare earnestly
- to assert
- to aver
- 4.
- teasing conversation
- jesting
- banter
- 5.
- obligated or indebted
- 6.
- self-important
- pompous
- arrogant
- following as a result
- 7.
- abundant
- plentiful
- replete
- teeming
- fraught
- 8.
- cowardly
- pusillanimous
- faint-hearted
- 9.
- showing good taste and propriety
- polite
- 10.
- to correct a false impression
- 11.
- to amuse
- 12.
- contrived
- not genuine
- artificial
- sham
- 13.
- a handyman
- one who performs various jobs
- 14.
- foolish
- inane
- 15.
- composed
- without emotion
- reserved
- 16.
- to cause to rise or to make lighter (especially bread dough)
- pepsidate
- ferment
- 17.
- having a foul or offensive odor
- fetid
- unwholesome
- 18.
- pushy
- meddlesome
- intrusive
- 19.
- suitable for drinking
- drinkable
- 20.
- lacking life's usual comforts
- hardship
- destitution
- deprivation
- penury
- 21.
- unimaginative
- mundane
- commonplace
- banal
- insipid
- 22.
- to swarm or teem
- to breed or produce rapidly
- 23.
- stylish
- chic
- swank
- 24.
- setting right that which is wrong
- compensation or remedy for a wrong
- 25.
- stubbornly disobedient
- unmanageable
- unruly
- 26.
- restless
- impatient
- 27.
- pertaining to profane or irreverent language or speech
- obscene
- indecent
- mocking
- 28.
- promoting a beneficial purpose
- wholesome
- healthful
- salubrious
- 29.
- to petition humbly for a favor
- entreat
- beg
- plead
- beseech
- adjure
- conjure
- 30.
- a test for measuring the quality of a thing (especially precious metals)
- 31.
- unfavorable or unfortunate
- unpropitious
- annoyingly improper
- uncouth
- gauche
- unseemly
- indecorous
- 32.
- attractive
- winning
- 33.
- shriveled
- withered