33 words that will fool you

Words for Smart Test Takers Chapter 4

Vocabulary Cards: 33

Lapinski
Lapinski
  • 1.
    • to approach and confront boldly
  • 2.
    • to imitate, mimic, or impersonate
  • 3.
    • to declare earnestly
    • to assert
    • to aver
  • 4.
    • teasing conversation
    • jesting
    • banter
  • 5.
    • obligated or indebted
  • 6.
    • self-important
    • pompous
    • arrogant
    • following as a result
  • 7.
    • abundant
    • plentiful
    • replete
    • teeming
    • fraught
  • 8.
    • cowardly
    • pusillanimous
    • faint-hearted
  • 9.
    • showing good taste and propriety
    • polite
  • 10.
    • to correct a false impression
  • 11.
    • to amuse
  • 12.
    • contrived
    • not genuine
    • artificial
    • sham
  • 13.
    • a handyman
    • one who performs various jobs
  • 14.
    • foolish
    • inane
  • 15.
    • composed
    • without emotion
    • reserved
  • 16.
    • to cause to rise or to make lighter (especially bread dough)
    • pepsidate
    • ferment
  • 17.
    • having a foul or offensive odor
    • fetid
    • unwholesome
  • 18.
    • pushy
    • meddlesome
    • intrusive
  • 19.
    • suitable for drinking
    • drinkable
  • 20.
    • lacking life's usual comforts
    • hardship
    • destitution
    • deprivation
    • penury
  • 21.
    • unimaginative
    • mundane
    • commonplace
    • banal
    • insipid
  • 22.
    • to swarm or teem
    • to breed or produce rapidly
  • 23.
    • stylish
    • chic
    • swank
  • 24.
    • setting right that which is wrong
    • compensation or remedy for a wrong
  • 25.
    • stubbornly disobedient
    • unmanageable
    • unruly
  • 26.
    • restless
    • impatient
  • 27.
    • pertaining to profane or irreverent language or speech
    • obscene
    • indecent
    • mocking
  • 28.
    • promoting a beneficial purpose
    • wholesome
    • healthful
    • salubrious
  • 29.
    • to petition humbly for a favor
    • entreat
    • beg
    • plead
    • beseech
    • adjure
    • conjure
  • 30.
    • a test for measuring the quality of a thing (especially precious metals)
  • 31.
    • unfavorable or unfortunate
    • unpropitious
    • annoyingly improper
    • uncouth
    • gauche
    • unseemly
    • indecorous
  • 32.
    • attractive
    • winning
  • 33.
    • shriveled
    • withered