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Questions and Answers List

level questions: Level 1

Question	Answer
become less in amount, degree, or intensity	Abate
to leave secretly	Abscond
to choose not to do something	Abstain
an extreme deep hole	Abyss
to make impure	Adulterate
to speak in favor of	Advocate
a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful	Aesthetic
to increase in power, influence, and reputation	Aggrandize
to make more bearable; provide physical relief, as from pain	Alleviate
to combine, to mix together	Amalgamate
doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted several ways	Ambiguous
to make better, to improve	Ameliorate
something out of place in time	Anachronism
similar or alike in some way; equivalent to	Analogous
deviation from what is normal	Anomaly
to annoy or provoke to anger	Antagonize
extreme dislike	Antipathy
lack of interest or emotion	Apathy
to judge a dispute between two opposing parties	Arbitrate
ancient, old-fashioned	Archaic
intense and passionate feeling	Ardor
able to speak clearly and expressively	Articulate
to make something unpleasant less severe	Assuage
to reduce in force or degree, to weaken	Attenuate
fearless and daring	Audacious
severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance	Austere
predictable,cliched, boring	Banal
to support, to prop up	Bolster
pompous in speech and manner	Bombastic
harsh,jarring noise	Cacophony
impartial and honest in speech	Candid
changing one's mind quickly and often	Capricious
to punish or criticize harshly	Castigate
something that brings about s change in something else	Catalyst
sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way	Caustic
great disorder or confusion	Chaos
someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs	Chauvinist
deception by means of craft or guile	Chicanery
convincing and well reasoned	Cogent
to overlook, pardon, or disregard	Codone
intricate and complicated	Convoluted
to provide supporting evidence	Corroborate
to trusting; gullible	Credulous
steadily increasing volume or force	Crescendo
appropriateness of behavior or conduct	Decorum
respect,courtesy	Deference
to mock	Deride
to dry out thoroughly	Desiccate
lacking a plan, to jump from one thing to another	Desultory
an abusive, condemnatory speech	Diatribe
lacking self-confidence	Diffident
to make larger, to expand	Dilate
intended to delay	Dilatory
someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic	Dilettante
a funeral hymn or mournful speech	Dirge
to set right, to free from error	Disabuse
to perceive; to recognize	Discern
fundamentally different; entirely unlike	Disparate
to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character	Dissemble
a harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds	Dissonance
a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief	Dogma
dictatorial in one's opinion	Dogmatic
to deceive, a person who is easily deceived	Dupe