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question		réponse
1. squalid "The man was squalid" commencer à apprendre		sordid, dirty, marked by filthiness
2. proliferating commencer à apprendre		multiplying, rapidly increasing in numbers.
3. sanctuary commencer à apprendre		a refuge, a place for worship.
4. elude commencer à apprendre		evade, cleverly avoid.
5. ultimate commencer à apprendre		final, farthest, most remote in space or time.
6. inscrutable commencer à apprendre		obscure, not capable of being understood.
7. spiel commencer à apprendre		an extravagant talk, an oration.
8. servitude commencer à apprendre		slavery, punishment for a crime, subjection.
9. spellbind commencer à apprendre		fascinate, enchant, to hold one’s attention as by a spell.
10. proletariat commencer à apprendre		common people, working class.
11. delusion commencer à apprendre		a deception, a false idea or opinion.
12. purge commencer à apprendre		to cleanse, to purify, to free from impurities.
13. secular commencer à apprendre		worldly, not sacred or religious.
14. viable commencer à apprendre		practical, able to live or to be implemented.
15. anathema commencer à apprendre		a curse, a vigorous denunciation.
16. jeopardy commencer à apprendre		danger, peril, vulnerability.
17. reflective commencer à apprendre		thoughtful, pensive, contemplative.
18. benign commencer à apprendre		gentle, showing kindness of disposition.
19. pugnacious commencer à apprendre		belligerent, combative, obnoxious.
20. dissipate commencer à apprendre		scatter, vanish, to waste, as in money.
21. acquiesce commencer à apprendre		assent, to accept passively or reluctantly.
22. denigrate commencer à apprendre		defame, belittle, criticize unkindly.
23. munificent commencer à apprendre		lavishly generous, liberal in giving.
24. capitulation commencer à apprendre		surrender, giving up resistance.
25. palatable commencer à apprendre		edible, pleasant tasting, to one’s taste.
26. vehement commencer à apprendre		forcibly expressed, impassioned, fervid.
27. fruition commencer à apprendre		accomplishment, realization.
28. eradicate commencer à apprendre		exterminate, do away with completely.
29. despotic commencer à apprendre		tyrannical: dictatorial.
30. extricate commencer à apprendre		to free, remove from entanglement.
31. paranoia commencer à apprendre		irrational distrust, feeling of persecution.
32. malevolence commencer à apprendre		malice, hatred toward others, intention to harm.
33. tenuous commencer à apprendre		insubstantial, flimsy, weak.
34. ambivalence commencer à apprendre		uncertainty in attitude, fluctuation.
35. desiccate commencer à apprendre		dry up, dehydrate, to drain vitality.
36. replete commencer à apprendre		complete, full, abundantly filled.
37. recalcitrant commencer à apprendre		resistant, defiant of authority.
38. cogent commencer à apprendre		convincing, valid, forcibly appealing to the mind.
39. affluence commencer à apprendre		profusion, overflowing of wealth, etc., an abundance.
40. astute commencer à apprendre		clever, shrewd, intellectually observant.
41. fatuous commencer à apprendre		foolish, silly, simple-minded, not intellectual.
42. vindictive commencer à apprendre		revengeful, spiteful, wanting to hurt or harm.
43. meticulous commencer à apprendre		giving great attention to details, mindful of details.
44. catharsis commencer à apprendre		purification, purgation, cleansing of emotions.
45. insatiable commencer à apprendre		quenchless, incapable of being satisfied.
46. dubious commencer à apprendre		doubtful, uncertain in belief or knowledge.
47. tepid commencer à apprendre		lukewarm, lacking definite warmth, moderate warmth.
48. perpetual commencer à apprendre		everlasting, continuing forever.
49. skepticism commencer à apprendre		doubt, uncertainty in belief or knowledge.
50. vestige commencer à apprendre		remnant, that which is left.
51. clandestine commencer à apprendre		secretive, held or conducted secretly.
52. expatriate commencer à apprendre		banished person, one driven into exile.
53. converge commencer à apprendre		meet, to move toward one another.
54. implicit commencer à apprendre		understood without explanation, tacitly understood, implied
55. manifest commencer à apprendre		obvious, readily perceived by the senses.
56. lexicon commencer à apprendre		dictionary, book containing words and definitions.
57. felicity commencer à apprendre		great happiness, state of being happy.
58. accentuate commencer à apprendre		emphasize, to accent something.
59. ephemeral commencer à apprendre		fleeting, transient, lasting only a short time.
60. eccentric commencer à apprendre		odd, strange, deviating from the pattern.
61. symbiosis commencer à apprendre		mutuality, beneficial union or association.
62. debacle commencer à apprendre		great disaster, fiasco, a tumultuous breakup.
63. delusive commencer à apprendre		deceptive, likely to deceive or trick.
64. exigencies commencer à apprendre		urgent needs, emergencies.
65. pernicious commencer à apprendre		wicked, deadly, highly injurious or destructive.
66. ostracism commencer à apprendre		exclusion, banishment, social exclusion.
67. ameliorate commencer à apprendre		improve, to make better or more tolerable.
68. tutelage commencer à apprendre		instruction, a guiding influence.
69. morose commencer à apprendre		expressive of gloom, sullen, unsociable.
70. ancillary commencer à apprendre		subsidiary, auxiliary, subordinate.
71. plethora commencer à apprendre		excess, superfluity, an overabundance.
72. vivifying commencer à apprendre		enlivening, quickening, renewing of life.
73. aesthetic commencer à apprendre		artistic, relating to or dealing with beauty, appealing to the eye.
74. disparate commencer à apprendre		different, markedly distinct in some way.
75. pedagogues commencer à apprendre		pompous teachers, schoolmasters.
76. salutary commencer à apprendre		curative, promoting good health.
77. relegated commencer à apprendre		assigned, classified, banished.
78. nuance commencer à apprendre		subtle distinction or difference, subtle variation.
79. precarious commencer à apprendre		dangerous, unsafe, hazardous.
80. metamorphosis commencer à apprendre		change in form, alteration of appearance.
81. congruent commencer à apprendre		equal, harmonious, agreeable, in tangent.
82. essences commencer à apprendre		prime characteristics, basic qualities.
83. syntax commencer à apprendre		word order, arrangement of parts of sentences.
84. unimpeachable commencer à apprendre		irreproachable, not liable to accusation, above reproach.
85. generic commencer à apprendre		general, common, characteristic of a whole group.
86. tandem commencer à apprendre		twosome, an arrangement by two.
87. rapport commencer à apprendre		harmony, relation marked by accord.
88. effete commencer à apprendre		decadent, effeminate, marked by weakness.
89. austerity commencer à apprendre		extreme economy, an ascetic practice.
90. presumptuous commencer à apprendre		audacious, tending to be overly bold.
91. voracious commencer à apprendre		gluttonous, extremely greedy, insatiable.
92. invidious commencer à apprendre		hostile, offensive, rousing ill will.
93. impermeable commencer à apprendre		impervious, not permitting passage.
94. aphorism commencer à apprendre		proverb, a terse formulation of a truth.
95. malaise commencer à apprendre		a sick feeling, a sense of mental or moral ill being.
96. histrionic commencer à apprendre		dramatic, theatrical, relating to the theater.
97. gingerly commencer à apprendre		cautiously, carefully, proceeding with caution.
98. decadence commencer à apprendre		deterioration, a period of decline.
99. drone commencer à apprendre		parasite, one who lives from the effects/good will of others.
100. calibrate commencer à apprendre		to determine, to measure, to standardize.

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