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1. When did Congress abrogate the laws
prohibiting women from voting and
owning property?
• Abrogate - verb
• Parts: ab (apart, away); rog (ask); ate (cause, make)
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2. Political candidates must prepare to
cope with animadversion of their
opponents.
• Animadversion - noun
• Parts:anim(life, soul,spirit); ad(very); vers(turn) ion(act of)
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3. Expecting the movie to be intellectually
stimulating, we were disappointed by its
bathos.
• Bathos - noun
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4. He tried to circumvent answering his
mother’s question by pretending he had not
heard it.
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• Parts: circum ( around); vent (go come)
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5. Do most advertisements and commercials
encourage continence or indulgence:
• Continence - noun
• Parts: con (together, with) tin (hold, keep); ence (state of)
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6. The young prince learned that the royal
family is expected to dissemble their
emotions, even grief, and to appear strong.
• Dissemble- verb
• Parts: dis ( apart, away); sembl (appear, seem)
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7. The counselor will disseminate the
scholarship information to all students.
• Disseminate (verb)
• Parts: dis (apart, away); semin (seed); ate (cause, make)
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8. She had struggled with the math problem
for hours, but the epiphany was worth the
effort.
• Epiphany - noun
• Parts: epi(upon); phan (show, reveal); y (result of)
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9. Impatient with Gary’s feckless effort, his
employer fired him at the end of the first
week.
• Feckless - adjective
• Parts: feck[fect] (make); less (without)
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10. In reality, Jupiter is massive, but from
here it appears infinitesimal.
• Infinitesimal - adjective
• Parts: in(not)finis(end)esimus(hundredth)al(related to)
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11.The basketball player’s display of temper
and invidious comments after his third
personal foul resulted in a technical foul also.
• Invidious - adjective
• Parts: in(in, into) vid(see) ous (full of)
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12. The melancholy music established the
mood of the play about life in the
concentration camp.
• Melancholy - adjective
• Parts: melan (dark) chol (bile) y (result of)
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13. Rather than being rehabilitated, many
prisoners become more obdurate while
confined.
• Obdurate (adjective)
• Parts:ob(against)dur(hard, lasting)ate(having the state of)
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14. Only a student with perspicacity will
enjoy the intellectual challenge of this
complex novel.
• Perspicacity- noun
• Parts: per (through); spic (look, see); ity (state,condition)
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15. The precocious child had graduated from
high school years before he had his driver’s
license.
• Precocious - adjective
• Parts: pre (before); coquere (cook); ious (full of)
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16.Suffering from a protracted illness, she
missed many days of class.
• Protracted - adjective
• Parts: pro (forth, forward); tract (pull, draw)
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17. We enjoyed the State Fair replete with
games, rides, exhibits, food, and
pyrotechnics.
• Replete - adjective
• Parts: re (back); plet (fill, plenty)
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18. Sacrifice, practice, and commitment are
the sine qua non for our band to excel in the
international competition.
• Sine qua non - noun
• Parts: sine (without); qua (which); non (not)
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19. It is probable that this policy will cause
controversy; therefore, our decision must be
tenable.
• Tenable - adjective
• Parts: ten (hold, keep); able (capable of)
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20. I must weigh the benefits vis-à-vis the
disadvantages of a part-time job before
graduation.
• Vis-à-vis - preposition
• Parts: vis (see) --face to face
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