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Big Bang Vocabulary 03
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PSAT vocabulary, Big Bang Vocabulary
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Sparkling, brilliant, clever, effervescent:
prevaricating
scintillating
cachinnating
fulminating
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If you dazzle us with your witty repartee, you're ____.
fulminating
scintillating
expurgating
unequivocal
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Of, relating to, or situated on the shore or shallows of the sea or a lake:
littoral
literary
literal
all of these
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Surreptitious, covert:
specious
spurious
furtive
scintillating
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e.g, "Bazinga!"
scintillating
axiomatic
inadvertent
idioscyncratic
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The haughty celebrity didn't stop for an autograph; she didn't even ____to give us a smile.
specious
fulminate
jape
deign
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If it's unintentional, it's ___.
unpremeditated
inadvertent
all of these
unwitting
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To speak or write LITERALLY is to
use words figuratively
compare using literary devices like simile and metaphor
use words in their usual, most basic sense w/o metaphor
speak or write indirectly, discursively
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Introducing the ChingChong DingDong foundation to show Asians you care really shows you are___
insensate
abstruse
obtuse
obtrusive
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a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation:
mendacity
disconcertion
chagrin
discomfiture
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If I'm annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand, I'm ____.
analogous
oblique
obtuse
abstruse
12
The pro-choice protesters ___ against anti-abortion policies.
abrogated
enervated
exacerbatd
fulminated
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To explode in violent condemnation and denunciation:
fulminate
modulate
abrogate
explicate
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If it's a characteristic, habit or mannerism that is peculiar to an individual, it's a/an
idiosyncrasy
factotum
exegess
fulmination
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e.g., "Sheldor the Conqueror"
nom de plume
nom de guerre
pseudonym
sobriquet
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To condescend to do something you consider beneath your dignity:
chagrin
contrive
obtrude
deign
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Jeff, much to his ____, wasn’t invited
fulmination
chagrin
badinage
equivocation
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an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence,hide something:
subterfuge
modulation
enervation
refuge
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Synonym for joke:
conundrum
subterfuge
chagrin
jape
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This cartoon is a prime example of
a Freudian slip
scintillating wit
witty repartee
all of these