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question		réponse
Abeyance commencer à apprendre		temporary suppression or suspension
Abjure commencer à apprendre		to reject; abandon formally
Abstemious commencer à apprendre		moderate in appetite
Accretion commencer à apprendre		growth in size or amount
Alacrity commencer à apprendre		cheerful willingness; eagerness; speed
Anodyne commencer à apprendre		something that calms or soothes pain
Antediluvian commencer à apprendre		prehistoric
Apogee commencer à apprendre		the point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited
Apothegm commencer à apprendre		a terse, witty saying
Apposite commencer à apprendre		strikingly appropriate and relevant
Approbation commencer à apprendre		praise; approval
Apropos commencer à apprendre		relevant
Arabesque commencer à apprendre		ornate design featuring intertwined curves
Argot commencer à apprendre		specialized vocabulary used by a group
Asperity commencer à apprendre		severity, hardness, irritability
Aspersion commencer à apprendre		slander; false rumor
Assiduous working commencer à apprendre		diligent, hard
Astringent commencer à apprendre		harsh; severe
Atavism commencer à apprendre		in biology, the reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after generations of absence; reappearance of a trait after a period of absence
Avocation commencer à apprendre		secondary occupation
Avuncular commencer à apprendre		like an uncle, benevolent / tolerant
Bacchanalian commencer à apprendre		pertaining to riotous or drunken festivity; pertaining to revelry
Bedizen commencer à apprendre		dress in a vulgar or showy manner
Blandishment commencer à apprendre		flattery
Boorish commencer à apprendre		rude; insensitive
Bucolic commencer à apprendre		rustic
Burnish commencer à apprendre		to polish
Cadge commencer à apprendre		to beg; sponge
Calumny commencer à apprendre		false and malicious accusation; slander
Canard commencer à apprendre		false; deliberately misleading story
Canon commencer à apprendre		an established principle’ a basis or standard for judgement; a group of literary works
Cant commencer à apprendre		insincere talk; language of a particular group
Captious finding; intended to entrap commencer à apprendre		fault
Carping commencer à apprendre		to find fault; to complain
Caucus commencer à apprendre		a smaller group within an organization
Centrifugal commencer à apprendre		moving away from the center
Centripetal commencer à apprendre		moving or directed to a center
Chicanery commencer à apprendre		trickery; fraud
Churlish commencer à apprendre		rude
Cloister commencer à apprendre		to confine; seclude
Coda commencer à apprendre		concluding part of a literary or musical composition; something that summarizes and concludes
Codify commencer à apprendre		to systematize
Compendium commencer à apprendre		brief; comprehensive summary
Complaisant commencer à apprendre		overly polite; willing to please
Concomitant commencer à apprendre		existing concurrently
Consecrate commencer à apprendre		declare sacred
Contumacious commencer à apprendre		disobedient; rebellious
Convivial commencer à apprendre		sociable
Coquette commencer à apprendre		woman who flirts
Cozen commencer à apprendre		to mislead by fraud; deceive
Credence commencer à apprendre		acceptance of something as true
Credo commencer à apprendre		statement of belief or principle
Dearth commencer à apprendre		scarcity
Demotic commencer à apprendre		pertaining to people
Demur commencer à apprendre		to express doubt
Denizen commencer à apprendre		an inhabitant; a regular vistor
Denouement commencer à apprendre		outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature
Desuetude commencer à apprendre		state of disuse
Desultory commencer à apprendre		random; disconnected; rambling
Diaphanous textured; vague commencer à apprendre		transparent; fine
Dirge commencer à apprendre		funeral hymn
Discomfit commencer à apprendre		make uneasy
Disparate commencer à apprendre		varied; dissimilar
Dissolution commencer à apprendre		disintegration; debauchery
Distrait commencer à apprendre		inattentive; preoccupied
Divest commencer à apprendre		to strip; deprive; rid
Doctrinaire commencer à apprendre		relating to a person who cannot compromise about points of a theory or doctrine; dogmatic
Doggerel commencer à apprendre		poor verse
Dross commencer à apprendre		waste; worthless matter; trivial matter
Effervescence commencer à apprendre		state of high spirits or liveliness
Effete commencer à apprendre		depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent
Effrontery commencer à apprendre		shameless boldness; presumptuousness
Elysian commencer à apprendre		blissful; delightful
Elegy commencer à apprendre		poem or song expressing lamentation
Emollient commencer à apprendre		soothing; mollifying
Encomium commencer à apprendre		a formal expression of praise
Enervate commencer à apprendre		to weaken
Engender commencer à apprendre		to cause; produce
Equable commencer à apprendre		steady; unvarying; serene
Essay commencer à apprendre		to make an attempt; subject to a test
Etiology commencer à apprendre		causes or origins
Execrable commencer à apprendre		detestable; abhorrent
Expatiate commencer à apprendre		to speak or write at length
Expatriate commencer à apprendre		to send into exile
Expiate commencer à apprendre		to atone for
Explicate commencer à apprendre		to explain; clarify; interpret
Extemporaneous commencer à apprendre		unrehearsed
Extirpate commencer à apprendre		to root up; to destroy
Factotum commencer à apprendre		a person who dose all sorts of work; a handyman
Fallow commencer à apprendre		plowed but not sowed; uncultivated
Fatuous satisfied commencer à apprendre		foolishly self
Felicitous chosen commencer à apprendre		suitably expressed; appropriate; well
Fiat commencer à apprendre		arbitrary order; authorization
Fissure commencer à apprendre		crevice
Foment commencer à apprendre		to excite; to arouse
Forbearance commencer à apprendre		patience
Fracas commencer à apprendre		loud quarrel; brawl
Fresco commencer à apprendre		a painting done on plaster
Frieze commencer à apprendre		an ornamental band on a wall
Froward commencer à apprendre		stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient
Fulminate commencer à apprendre		to attack loudly; to denounce
Fulsome commencer à apprendre		so excessive as to be disgusting
Gainsay commencer à apprendre		to deny; dispute; oppose
Gambol commencer à apprendre		to frolic;
Garrulous commencer à apprendre		talkative
Gauche commencer à apprendre		course and uncouth; clumsy
Grandiloquent commencer à apprendre		pompous; bombastic
Grouse commencer à apprendre		to complain
Halcyon commencer à apprendre		calm and peaceful; happy;
Hermetic commencer à apprendre		tightly sealed; magical
Hirsute commencer à apprendre		covered with hair
Homily commencer à apprendre		sermon; platitude
Iconoclastic commencer à apprendre		attacking cherished traditions
Igneous commencer à apprendre		produced by fire; volcanic
Imbroglio commencer à apprendre		complicated situation; an entanglement
Impecunious commencer à apprendre		poor
Imprecation commencer à apprendre		curse
Impute commencer à apprendre		to relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault to; assign as a characteristic
Inchoate commencer à apprendre		imperfectly formed or formulated
Indigence commencer à apprendre		poverty
Indolent commencer à apprendre		habitually lazy
Ineluctable commencer à apprendre		not to be avoided or escaped
Insensible commencer à apprendre		unconscious, unresponsive
Insouciant commencer à apprendre		indifferent; lacking concern or care
Insularity mindedness; isolation commencer à apprendre		narrow
Insuperable commencer à apprendre		insurmountable; unconquerable
Interdict commencer à apprendre		to forbid; prohibit
Internecine commencer à apprendre		deadly to both sides
Interpolate commencer à apprendre		to insert; change by adding new material
Interregnum commencer à apprendre		interval between reigns; gap in continuity
Intractable commencer à apprendre		not easily managed
Inured commencer à apprendre		hardened; accustomed; used to
Invective commencer à apprendre		verbal abuse
Inveigh commencer à apprendre		to disapprove; protest vehemently
Inveigle commencer à apprendre		to win over by flattery or coaxing
Inveterate standing; deeply rooted commencer à apprendre		confirmed; long
Invidious commencer à apprendre		likely to provoke ill will; offensive
Irascible commencer à apprendre		easily angered
Itinerant commencer à apprendre		wandering from place to place; unsettled
Jocose commencer à apprendre		fond of joking; jocular; playful
Junta commencer à apprendre		group of people united by political intrigue
Labile commencer à apprendre		likely to change
Laconic commencer à apprendre		using few words
Lambaste commencer à apprendre		thrash verbally or physically
Lassitude commencer à apprendre		lethargy
Libertine commencer à apprendre		one without moral restraint
Lilliputian commencer à apprendre		extremely small
Limn commencer à apprendre		to draw, describe
Limpid commencer à apprendre		clear, transparent
Literati commencer à apprendre		scholarly or learned persons
Lucre commencer à apprendre		money or profits
Machiavellian dealing commencer à apprendre		crafty; double
Malinger commencer à apprendre		feign illness to escape duty
Maverick commencer à apprendre		dissenter
Mendicant commencer à apprendre		beggar
Meretricious commencer à apprendre		gaudy; plausible but false; specious
Metaphysics commencer à apprendre		branch of philosophy investigating the ultimate nature of reality
Mettle commencer à apprendre		courage, endurance
Militate commencer à apprendre		to work against
Minatory commencer à apprendre		threatening; menacing
Miscellany commencer à apprendre		mixture of writings on various subjects
Multifarious commencer à apprendre		diverse
Neophyte commencer à apprendre		novice, beginner
Nexus commencer à apprendre		means of connection; a center; a connected group
Nostrum commencer à apprendre		medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness
Nugatory commencer à apprendre		trifling, invalid
Obdurate commencer à apprendre		stubborn
Obsequy commencer à apprendre		funeral ceremony
Obviate commencer à apprendre		to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent
Officious commencer à apprendre		too helpful; meddlesome
Opprobrium commencer à apprendre		disgrace; contempt
Ostentatious commencer à apprendre		showy; pretentious
Overweening commencer à apprendre		presumptuous; arrogant; overbearing
Paean commencer à apprendre		song of joy or triumph
Panegryic commencer à apprendre		elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise
Patois commencer à apprendre		regional dialect; jargon
Pellucid commencer à apprendre		transparent; easily understood
Penury commencer à apprendre		extreme poverty
Peregrination commencer à apprendre		wandering from place to place
Peremptory commencer à apprendre		imperative; leaving no choice
Perennial commencer à apprendre		present throughout the years, persistent
Perfidious commencer à apprendre		disloyal, untrustworthy
Perigree commencer à apprendre		point in an orbit that is closest to the Earth
Phlegmatic commencer à apprendre		calm in temperament; sluggish
Piquant commencer à apprendre		appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent
Pique commencer à apprendre		fleeting feeling of hurt pride
Plumb commencer à apprendre		to examine deeply; to determine the depth
Plutocracy commencer à apprendre		government of the wealthy
Prate commencer à apprendre		to talk idly
Precipitate commencer à apprendre		rash; hasty; sudden
Prehensile commencer à apprendre		capable of grasping
Presage commencer à apprendre		to foretell; indicate in advance
Prevaricate commencer à apprendre		to quibble; evade the truth
Probity mindedness commencer à apprendre		honesty; high
Propitiate commencer à apprendre		to win over; appease
Proscribe commencer à apprendre		to condemn
Provident commencer à apprendre		providing for future needs; frugal
Puissant commencer à apprendre		powerful
Punctilious commencer à apprendre		careful in observing rules of behavior or ceremony
Pusillanimous commencer à apprendre		cowardly
Quagmire commencer à apprendre		marsh; difficult situation
Quail commencer à apprendre		to cower, lose heart
Quorum commencer à apprendre		number of members necessary to conduct a meeting
Raconteur commencer à apprendre		witty, skillful storyteller
Raiment commencer à apprendre		clothing
Rebus commencer à apprendre		puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words
Recalcitrant commencer à apprendre		resisting control or authority
Recondite commencer à apprendre		abstruse; profound
Redoubtable commencer à apprendre		formidable; arousing fear or respect
Refractory commencer à apprendre		stubborn; unmanageable
Refulgent commencer à apprendre		brightly shining; resplendent
Remonstrate commencer à apprendre		to object or protest
Renege commencer à apprendre		to go back on one’s word
Repine commencer à apprendre		to fret; complain
Riposte commencer à apprendre		a retaliatory action or retort
Rococo commencer à apprendre		excessively ornate (style of architecture in 18th century Europe)
Salacious commencer à apprendre		lascivious; lustful
Salubrious commencer à apprendre		healthful
Salutary commencer à apprendre		favorable to health; expecting an improvement
Sartorial commencer à apprendre		pertaining to tailors
Saturnine commencer à apprendre		gloomy
Sedition commencer à apprendre		behavior prompting rebellion
Sedulous commencer à apprendre		diligent
Servile commencer à apprendre		obedient
Sextant commencer à apprendre		navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude
Sidereal commencer à apprendre		relating to the stars
Simian like, relating to the apes commencer à apprendre		ape
Sinecure paying job or office that requires little work commencer à apprendre		well
Solicitous commencer à apprendre		concerned; attentive; eager
Spendthrift commencer à apprendre		a person who spends money recklessly
Stentorian commencer à apprendre		extremely loud
Stricture commencer à apprendre		something that restrains; negative criticism
Stultify commencer à apprendre		to impair or reduce to uselessness
Stygian commencer à apprendre		dark and gloomy; hellish
Subsume commencer à apprendre		to include / incorporate
Succor commencer à apprendre		relief; help in time of distress
Sundry commencer à apprendre		various
Supine commencer à apprendre		lying on the back; marked by lethargy
Suppliant commencer à apprendre		beseeching
Supposition commencer à apprendre		the act of assuming to be true or real
Sylvan commencer à apprendre		relating to the woods or the forest
Tautology commencer à apprendre		unnecessary repetition
Toady commencer à apprendre		a flatterer
Travail commencer à apprendre		work, especially arduous work
Truculence commencer à apprendre		aggressiveness, ferocity
Tumid commencer à apprendre		swollen; distended
Turbid commencer à apprendre		muddy; opaque
Tutelary commencer à apprendre		serving as a guardian or protector
Usury commencer à apprendre		practice of lending money at exorbitant rates
Vacillate commencer à apprendre		to waver; oscillate
Valedictory commencer à apprendre		pertaining to a farewell
Variegated commencer à apprendre		varied; marked with different colors
Vaunt commencer à apprendre		to boast; brag
Venal commencer à apprendre		bribable; mercenary
Veracious commencer à apprendre		truthful; accurate
Vitiate commencer à apprendre		to impair the quality of; make inoperative
Vituperative commencer à apprendre		using or containing harsh; abusive censure
Welter commencer à apprendre		to wallow or roll; be in turmoil

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