1. Group 12
Marks
Spring 2014

2. Absolve
(v.) To clear from blame, responsibility, or guilty.

3. Caricature
(n.) A representation (especially a drawing) in which the subject’s characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated. (v.) To present someone or something is a deliberately distorted way.

4. Clangor
(n.) A loud ringing sound. (v.) To make a loud ringing noise.

5. Contiguous
(adj.) side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time.

6. Cupidity
(n.) An eager desire for something; greed.

7. Deleterious
(adj.) harmful, injurious

8. Enhance
(v.) To raise to a higher degree; to increase the value or desirability of.

9. Enthrall
(v.) To captivate, charm, hold spellbound; to enslave; to imprison.

10. Extenuate
(v.) To lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses.

11. Implicit
(adj.) Implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in.

12. Incisive
(adj.) Sharp, keen, penetrating (with a suggestion of decisiveness and effectiveness).

13. Ostentatious
(adj.) Marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy.

14. Paragon
(n.) A model of excellence or perfection.

15. Paraphrase
(v.) To restate in other words. (n.) A statement that presents a given idea in new language.

16. Politic
(adj.) Prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed; artful, expedient.

17. Prosaic
(adj.) Dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of- fact, straightforward; characteristic of prose, not poetic.

18. Redundant
(adj.) Extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; profuse, lush.

19. Sanctimonious
(adj.) Making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious, self-righteous, canting, holier-than-thou.

20. Scintillating
(adj.) Sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to mental or personal qualities).

21. Winsome
(adj.) Charming, attractive, pleasing (often suggesting a childlike charm and innocence).

22. Squander
Verb
Noun
To spend or use money, time extravagantly or wastefully/scatter.
Extravagant or wasteful expenditure.

23. Taciturn
(adj.) Inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation, dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner.

24. Torpor
(n.) Sluggish inactivity or inertia, lethargic indifference; apathy. A state of suspended physical powers and activities, dormancy, as of a hibernating animal.

25. Virulent
(adj.) Actively poisonous/deadly; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite. Intensely bitter, spiteful, or malicious: a virulent attack.

26. Zeal
(n.) Fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.