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DE VOCAB| 95 QUESTIONS| WELL EXPLAINED

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folly Correct Answer: lack of good sense; foolishness. "an act of sheer folly" impede Correct Answer: delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder. "the sap causes swelli ... ng that can impede breathing" indolent Correct Answer: wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy. indolence Correct Answer: avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness. "my failure is probably due to my own indolence" invalid Correct Answer: a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury. "an invalid husband" parsimonious Correct Answer: unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal. "parsimonious New Hampshire voters, who have a phobia about taxes" parsimony Correct Answer: extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources. "a great tradition of public design has been shattered by government parsimony" raze Correct Answer: completely destroy (a building, town, or other site). "villages were razed to the ground" retort Correct Answer: answer; reply sharply subvert Correct Answer: overturn or overthrow from the foundation subversion Correct Answer: sabotage; undermining tractable Correct Answer: easily led; taught tractability Correct Answer: obedience exhort Correct Answer: arouse by words; urge exhortation Correct Answer: advice gall Correct Answer: make sore; irritate gall Correct Answer: brazen boldness; nerve inane Correct Answer: lacking significance or sense inanity Correct Answer: foolishness [Show More]

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