Vocabulary College Prep Advanced — Set 3: In Context flashcards
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Raised on canned soup, Felix came home from a year in Lyon an ______, lingering over three-hour lunches, arguing about cheese and refusing instant coffee on principle.epicureanCharacter & Behavior
Someone who lives to savor fine food is an epicurean. An rules out dilettante, and a dilettante dabbles without commitment anyway, while Felix takes eating very seriously. -
Rafael studied hard for every exam, but only out of habit: the results, he insisted, were written in the stars long before test day, and nothing he did could change them. His tutor found him maddeningly ______.fatalisticFeelings & Attitudes
Believing outcomes are fixed in advance, so effort changes nothing, is fatalistic. He studies hard, so he is not lackadaisical, and jaundiced is cynical distrust born of experience, not a belief in fate. -
Doctor, published poet, expert beekeeper and the county's best fiddler, Eliza Marsh was the town's resident ______, consulted on everything from fevers to folk tunes.polymathThinking & Knowing
Deep skill across many unrelated fields marks a polymath. A dilettante dabbles without mastery, and a savant is a learned person or an expert in one field; fiddling and beekeeping are skills, spread across many fields. -
Standing on a hay bale, the organizer, who had no power to give anyone orders, began in a ringing voice, with no hint of pleading, to ______ the weary pickers to stay united and vote yes in the morning.exhortSpeaking & Arguing
Urging a crowd earnestly in a rousing speech is to exhort. Enjoin suggests an order from someone in authority, which the organizer lacks, and entreat means to plead or beg, which they pointedly do not. -
Through the long hospital stay, letters from her old classmates gave Mrs. Adair more ______ than any medicine, comforting her on the loneliest nights.succorActions & Effort
Comfort and support that see someone through a rough stretch is succor. Largesse is generous giving by the wealthy, usually money or gifts, not letters that console. -
Callum's job as a sheep shearer is ______ by nature, taking him from ranch to ranch across three states every spring.peripateticChange & Growth
A job that keeps you moving from one site to the next is peripatetic. Inconstant means changeable or disloyal, which says nothing about moving around. -
What began as one student's letter about the cafeteria's plastic forks grew into a ______ of public demand for reusable trays across the district.groundswellSize & Amount
When public feeling swells quickly and widely, that is a groundswell. A spate is a burst of similar, usually unwelcome events, not rising public demand. -
Nobody would call the new mystery novel praiseworthy, and nobody would call it poor: fair clues, brisk chapters, not one memorable line. It is a thoroughly ______ piece of work.workmanlikeQuality & Judgment
Work that gets the job done properly but never sparkles is workmanlike. A creditable effort is praiseworthy and respectable, though not outstanding, and no one praises this book. -
The new constitution required the king to ______ every law in the town squares and the official gazette before it could take effect.promulgateSociety & Power
Publishing a new law so that it is now in force is to promulgate it. Enjoin means to give someone a firm instruction, not to publish a law. -
The old naturalist believed that a spirit of cooperation was ______ in every beehive, part of its very nature rather than imposed by the queen.immanentNature & Time
Built into a thing's very nature and dwelling inside it is immanent. Atavistic would mean a throwback to distant ancestors, and nothing here points back to the past.
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