Study Guide 2025/2026
1. callous - answers>made hard
2. explicit - answers>fully and clearly expressed
3. partisan - answers>biased, emotional allegiance
4. limbo - answers>an intermediate, transitional
5. succumbing - answers>to give way to superior force; yield
6. malingering - answers>to pretend illness, to avoid work, etc
7. avarice - answers>insatiable greed for riches
8. admonition - answers>counsel, advice, or caution
9. veneration - answers>the act of treating with profound respect
10. animosity - answers>strong dislike
[Date] 1
,11. menial - answers>lowly / degrading
12. nominal - answers>not real; too small to be considered or taken
seriously
13. cynical - answers>distrusting the motives of others
14. candid - answers>completely honest, straightforward
15. eloquent - answers>fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech
16. continuum - answers>a continuous extent, series, or whole
17. symposium - answers>a meeting or conference for the discussion
of some subject
18. presumptuous - answers>bold of forward; going beyond that
which is proper
19. vacillated - answers>indecisive or irresolute
20. transgressed - answers>go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.)
[Date] 2
, 21. ascetic - answers>self-denying
22. agitated - answers>to move or force into violent, irregular action;
shake
23. incongruous - answers>out of place; inappropriate; unbecoming;
24. dissident - answers>disagreeing
25. adamant - answers>unyielding; persistent
26. nondescript - answers>of no particular type or kind;uninteresting;
dull
27. lope - answers>to move or run with bounding steps
28. canter - answers>an easy gallop
29. saunter - answers>to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll
30. falter - answers>to hesitate; to move unsteadily
[Date] 3