Sentence Completion

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disparate
angular
altruistic
discern
innocuous
ambivalent
aversion
disparaging
subtle, disdain
embellish
arrogant
obscure
prodigal
insipid
lament
revere
superfluous
engender
laud
reticence
taciturn
repudiate
ostentatious
serene

defamation
extolled
benign
austere
capricious
ascend
banal
esoteric
exacerbate
dawdle
antithesis
autonomous
hypocrite
tranquil
innate
melancholy
symmetry
fastidious
lethargic
furtive
opaque
prolific
gregarious
reprove
venerate

audacity
erudite
deprecates
credulous
affable
depravity
contrite
dormant
fuse
abstruse
exotic
didactic
pacifistic
prologue
loathe
incorrigible
pretentious
nullify
servile
recant
immutable
vilify
trepidation
mitigate
enigmatic

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aesthetic
dissemination
contentious
daunted
discord
archaic
egocentric
aloof
debilitated
belied
assuage
dogmatic
slothful
gluttonous
pompous
verbose
precocious
virulent
mundane
volatile
trivia
ominous
petulant
duplicity
euphemism

debase
elucidate
inscrutable
ameliorate
efface
cajole
amenable
buoyant
amorphous
ferocity
calamity
acrimonious
oblique
infallible
opulence
impervious
flourish
haughty
perfunctory
languid
inane
malice
indolence
penitent
ephemeral

antiquated
derision
forbearance
atrophy
ascendancy
extricate
frivolous
clandestine
arable
conciliate
enmity
cursory
vivid
insolence
paradoxical
oblivion
industrious
perjury
infamous
vacillating
rancor
levity
sycophant
impetuous
garrulous

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charlatan, guile
accolades
dearth
diffidence
expunge
effervescence
bequeath
ethereal
ascetic
conflagration
abhor
reiterate
placate
insularity
poignant
spontaneous
vigilant
morose
provincial
implausible
voluble
toxic
synthesis
incongruity

empirical
extraneous
fallow
affinity
corroboration
despotic
acquiesce
blasphemous
emaciated
circumspect
deplete
buttress
hyperbole
homogeneous
laconic
sublime
surreptitious
zeal
proliferation
irascible
scrupulous
obsequious
magnanimity
veracity
incontrovertible

induce
amiable
ambiguous
hypothesize
docile
intractable
exonerate
discursive
gratuitous
crass
estranged
indignation
meticulous
lucid
plagiarize
terse
munificent
introspective
transient
recluse, misanthrope
sated
stupefy
profuse
virtuoso

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fatuous
burgeon
ineptness
chimera
abstracted
indulgent
adulation
decadent
entreaty
adversity
humane
culpable
transparent
suffrage
nefarious
inundated
prattle
summon, turbulence
predilection
stoic
viable
procrastinate
miser
ingrate

desolate
din
eulogy
agility
abetting
benevolence
dissuade
distend
enervation
fitful
antidote
ascertain
ornate
piety
scintillating
squalid, vexation
malevolence
indelible
quiescence
inert
precarious
prosaic
paucity
obliterate

alacrity
euphonious
augment
eclectic
bombastic
impecunious
ingratiate
abridged
decry
enhance
fervid
antipathy
luxuriant
placid
secular
static
vindictive, vindicated
torpid
preclude
promontory
raze
pedantry
paltry
tact

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caricature
ecstasy
apathetic
empathy
discrepant
auspicious
cosmopolitan
cordial
expeditious
equivocal
allure
deplore
inimitable
galvanize
implacable
soporific
strident
odious
parochial
mutability
penchant
replete
ponderous
protract
treachery

animosity
coalesce
edifying
adulterate
cryptic
dissipation
avarice
equivocate
apocryphal
collaborate
espousin g
desultory
prodigious
peripheral
respite
hedonists
interminable
parody
profane
portent
surfeited
sordid
trifling
indefatigable
naive

impeccable
cynical
dexterous
exalt
arid
dour
felicitous, beleaguered
antecedent
baneful
abate
contempt
pugnacious
supercilious
savory
platitudes, trite
imperturbable
malleable, obdurate
mortified
profligate
spurn
vociferous, vulgarity

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banter
commensurate
amass
cacophonous
desiccate
anarchist
complacency, elicit
acclaim
incessant, blithe
diminution
pliable
rectify
stealthy
rue
jollity
succinct, voluminous
sluggard
parsimony
kindle
perspicacious
quell, penury

amity
clemency
abstemious
exorcise
finesse
bastion
debunk
diffused
dupe
humility
admonish
callous
plight
larceny
mollify
orthodox
mirth
rupture
solicitous
repertoire
stolid
neologisms
tempestuous
untenable
imperious

carping
accord
fortuitous
guileless
desecrate
annulment
astute
covert
expatriate
esteem
dilatory
arduous
illustrious
loquacious
hackneyed
insatiable
reconcile
sonorous
utility
tentative
rancid
neurotic
saccharine
parch
porous

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galling
incantation
censure
defile
heralded
belligerent
diligent
flout
compliance
anomalous
adjunct
expedient
tangential
ratify
sagacious
slovenly
precipitate
luscious
taper
indigenous
parry
vagrant
nomadic
spiteful
pungent

congenial
dispatched
antiquity
civility
blandishments
garner
expurgate
chasten
heretical
deft
embroiled
affluent
nuance
mercurial
partisans
raucous
repugnant
iconoclast
succulent
terrestrial
sporadic
ungainly
satiric
irreproachable
pious

disputatious
deleterious
contaminants
boon
giddy
chicanery
emend
buffoon
aggregate
archipelago
corrugated
fetter
rebuffed
resilient
prodigy
spurious
vivacious
scapegoat
indomitable
metaphorically
tractable
irresolute
peruse
heterogeneity
panacea

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gravity
fickle
dissemble
approbation
copious
indigence
homely
boorish
delineated
circumlocution
emulate
jingoist
assent
prostration
migratory
tacit
sectarian
stalwart
transcended
whets
resolute
obfuscating
proclivity
recalcitrant
virtuous

fledgling
ambulatory
demagogue
facilitate
circumscribed
dissonant
breadth
cant
congeal
dubious
anarchy
engrossed
graphic
introvert
obstinate
misnomer
jocular
malcontent
gilded
prevalent
tactile
steadfastness
pulverize
prudent
recapitulation

decorum
abase
abdicate
deference
enunciated, caustic
commiserate, girth
brazen
drone
grandiose
obtuse
neophyte
ineffable
vapid, stultifying
troupe
reproach, rant
savant, parable
syllabus
unequivocal
inception
nebulous

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invective, indubitable
countenance
callow, clamor
dilettante, hack
impede
artifacts, arcane
atone
foreboding
vehement, stymie
unkempt, variegated
vacuous, rhetoric
zealot, tepid
rigors
relished
philanthropist
somnambulist
precursor

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fecund
comatose
castigate
eddy
abscond
capitulate
enfranchisement,
consolidate
despondent, destitution
ennobled
abominable
inebriation
inviolable
tantamount
remonstrate
nonchalance
sonnet
prevarication
primordial
punctilious
turgid
inopportune
rudimentary
vestigial

inordinate
grate
cataclysmic
edifice
enumerate
inertia
acrid
acuity
dogma
catharsis
baleful
abyss
propensity
luminous
maudlin
novice
remuneration
purse
supple
pique
understate
refute
vibrant
travail
soothsayer

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compilation, chagrin
contest
fervent
coagulate
defoliate
ingenuity
eons
abeyance
cavalier
effigy
burly
myopic
plethora
quack
insidious
propitious
protrusion, truncated
rustic
sovereign
viscosity
undulant
querulous
temperance

harbored, chided
squandered, cache
adherent
converged
dictum
advent
celestial
certitudes
effusion
affront
impermeable
salubrious
tenets
exacting, excise
fetid
incipient
vista
insolvent
quandary
jettison
obtrude
repentant

alcove
elegiac
dilation
heedless
instigation
convivial, fiasco
incisive
blanching
exculpate
compress
champion
pariah
quench
salutary
philanderer
labyrinthine
interloper
reprobate
molt
tenaciously
tenuous
predisposed
unfrock
validate

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incurious
despicable
blighted
convoke
alloy
emboldened
embedded
hiatus
altercation
florid
charismatic
chary
lassitude
rescind
saturate
officious
insubordination
premature
presumptuous
sterile
voracious
relegated
unimpeachable
montage
tumultuous

anathema
balky
corpulence
concert
disconcerting, dirge
atypical
bourgeois
focused
endemic
confluence
amenity
quixotic
hilarity
monumental
oscillating
pithy
premeditated
indict
presage
myriad
latent
reserve
warranted
stasis

doleful
importune
intangibles
homage
antediluvian
denigrate
epilogue
foible
epitaph
lecher
garish
anchor
morbidity
patronizing
tinge
workaday
plentitude
resonant
sequester
sentinel
ostracize
unpalatable
sumptuous
slag
raconteur

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bizarre
cognizant
eschew
anthology
declaim
equanimity
hone
exigent
intemperance
imbue
bellicose
addendum
pluralistic
retrogress
portly
sybarite
levitate
subvert
resplendent
snippet
intrepid
toady
moribund
willful
upbraided

ethos
fold
impudent
collage
interred
abandon
equilibrium
bemused
lionize
explicate
intensify
decorousness
rejoinder
revile
restive
revulsion
whim
surplus
severed
topple
vanquished
polarization
mosaic
pedestrian
reciprocal

husband
confound
ardor
bestial
dissected
concord
defer
lithe
inanimate
impertinent
evince
assiduous
redundant
potable
sinuous
vicarious
maladroit
muted
subjugate
tottered
paradigm
usurp
perfidious
woe
retinue

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20.

begrudge
commodious
frenetic
ignoble
dissolution
dither
evocative
grisly
impel
bulwark
conglomerate
assimilate
mutinous
zany
lugubrious
intercede
paragon
perennial
translucence
potent
skewed
verdant
supersede
pucker
retrograde

adamant, gambol
egregious, barbarism
abrogate
colloquial
impaled
immunity
effrontery
compatriot
hemophilia
defused
libertarian, utopian
tarry
palliate
temerity, tawdry
noxious
palatable
pernicious
pallor
mired, knotty
skulk

declivity
germinate, foliage
connoisseur
fly-by-night
debauchery
ebullient
airing
beguiled, legerdemain
augury
diatribe
lachrymose
kudos, rectitude
rend, disencumber
impromptu, lurid
gratis
hues
muse
Philistines
uproarious
schisms

Lesson 40

Lesson 41

Lesson 42

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10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

cloistered, hoary
appended, fanaticism
apprised, disentangle
infernal, fermented
ardent
constricted, musty
feint
multifarious, jaunty
matriarchs, progeny
ruminate
unobtrusive, replicate
precipice
malefactor
precipitously
obstreperous
forestalled, gnarled

amulet, burnished
knoll, aviary
epitome, evanescent
fester, circumvent
mural, itinerant
magnate, omnipotent
wily, overt
scale, pinnacle
preeminence
staid
tenure
puritanical
prurient
summary
subjective
valid
unfathomable

gravitate, maverick
revelry, incensed
indigent, frugal
abnegated
forsake, chronic
guise
illicit
plunderer
predator, intuitively
impregnable, insuperable
malign, malfeasant
thwart, irreverent
sanguine
vulnerable, vitriolic
taut, timorous

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Lesson 44

Lesson 45

1. extrinsic
2. coterie
3. disapprobation
4. despairing
5. betoken
6. fallible
7. cite
8. extemporaneous
9. gentility
10. decelerate
11. communal
12. apogee
13. supplant
14. waver
15. reprise
16. puerile
17. pulchritude
18. opprobrium
19. moratorium
20. intrinsic
21. implicit
22. iniquity
23. kinetic
24. scathing
25. topicality

1. disavowal
2. appease, defrauded
3. abrasive
4. ellipsis
5. mote
6. bewailed
7. idolatry
8. fussbudget
9. countermand
10. cleft
11. eclipse
12. malicious
13. personification
14. precept
15. supplication
16. venturesome
17. optimum
18. repulse
19. waylay
20. traduced
21. sophistry
22. scribe
23. prate
24. pertinacity

1. gamely
2. indices
3. appreciated
4. fatalistic
5. discretion
6. ignominy
7. couple
8. clich
9. chaff, emollient
10. bigot
11. idiosyncrasy
12. malingered
13. wheedle
14. preciosity
15. ossify
16. scurry
17. sophomoric
18. infidel
19. motley
20. pestilence
21. surly
22. verify
23. transgression
24. vent

Lesson 46

Lesson 47

Lesson 48

1. garnished
2. floe
3. fission
4. dotard, bilked
5. coven
6. coda
7. accrue
8. emotive
9. imbibe
10. incarcerated, malodorous
11. petty
12. noisome
13. scuttle
14. resourceful
15. transmutation
16. versatile
17. solvent
18. whelp
19. purveyor
20. mottled
21. ostensible
22. pensive
23. spangles

1. chortle
2. blunderbuss
3. arboreal
4. befuddled
5. acerbic
6. credible, articulate
7. influx
8. enthralling
9. coddle
10. flaccid
11. encumber
12. requite
13. perishable
14. synchronize
15. scythe
16. pyromania
17. trek
18. verve
19. query
20. marshal
21. prcis
22. sphinx
23. travesty
24. winnow

1. germane
2. flower
3. crescendo
4. bolted
5. codicil
6. aperture
7. endowed
8. martial, nimble
9. abject
10. array
11. genial
12. laggard
13. palette
14. philologists, refrain
15. quaint
16. searing
17. resurge
18. precognition
19. splice
20. syncopation
21. vestiges
22. trenchant
23. winsome

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Lesson 50

Lesson 51

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24.

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24.

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22.

import
cognate
deterrent
fluid
disinterred
insentient
bovine
cumbersome
integral
corporeal
inimical
adage
quake
reputable, masochistic
palisade
wispy
retraction
seasoned
stagnant
synthetic
vicissitudes
lampoon
phlegmatic
preface

dynamic
impoundment
cupidity
ensconced
disjunction
germinal
broach
fulsome
facsimile
adroit
commission
insufferable
largess
table
phobia
turpitude
pall
vignettes
wistful
quash, restitution
premonition
retrenchment
sedentary
stand

askew
latitude
junta
chaste, disrepute
compost
curmudgeon
foliated
hydrophobia
witticisms, artful
advocacy
bucolic
rabid
palpable
malediction
unassailable, pillaging
phoenix
sedulously
prepossessing
nadir
stark
tangible
vile

Lesson 52

Lesson 53

Lesson 54

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23.

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23.

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19.
20.
21.
22.
23.

improvidence
intransigent
distant
rail at, dowager
buffeted
cutlery
entrench
leavened
compunction
asperity
glacial
seethe
retrospection, reverie
wooden
vim
narcissistic
methodically
picayune
panache
prescient
stately
unctuous
matriculated

diurnal
concentration
ford, enmesh
astronomical
maxim
dashiki, swatch
impugned
epicure
aggrandizement
by-line
legacy
rarefied
nascent
rhapsodize
tart
papyrus
seminal
pigeonhole
stilted
unflappable
yoke
visceral
prestidigitation

imputed
epithets
divinations
inveterate
concomitant
foremost, influence
goaded
calcify
monastic
attenuated
mellifluous
zenith
necromancy
parasite
theatrical, ribald
potentate
primeval
visionary
unnerved
onus
ravenous
sententious
stint

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Lesson 56

Lesson 57

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23.

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17.
18.
19.
20.

mellow
rife
forensic
document
alchemist, amalgam
caldron
nettle, protuberance
inaugural
august
conduit
invidious
teeming
stipend
zephyr
reprehensible
solace
refractory
unremitting
privation
pared
vitiated
serendipity
placebo

Lesson 58
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6.
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17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.

berate
delimits
forswore
aplomb
discriminating, grotto
celerity, cascade
automaton
circuitous
dormer
execrable
meritorious
limpid
unwittingly, ruffian
stratum
regimen
tensile
plumage
rotund
shepherd
pathogenic
progenitor
vogue

defunct
grievous
calipers
iota
formidable
aura
congenital
fomenting
allay
dolt
epochal
inauspicious
vituperation
melodeon
neuter
serrated
plaintive
titter
warp
parity
riled
unsung
proffer
vanguard
superb

acumen, excoriate
autocrat, gaunt
conspicuous, iridescence
licentious
menagerie
allegory
incapacitated
conjecture
domicile
rivulet, serpentine
stooped, trowel
pastiche
profundity
unwieldy
stoke
temperate
vivify
plausible
nihilist
refuge

Lesson 59

Lesson 60

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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
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22.
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24.

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12.
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16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.

failing
catacombs
diorama
consecrate
ambience
demarcation
itinerary
inexorable
awry
exhume
forte
icons
remit
peal
lineage
metaphysical
pneumatic
shrill
upshot
voluptuous
phalanx, noncombatant
propinquity
strife
routed

juxtaposed
balm
loiter
jaded
hallmark
demure, demur
fountainhead
inclement
furrows
expiate
conservatory
monolithic
propound
repast, peccadillo
rudiments
sieve
polemicist
vouchsafed
obeisance
reneged
tether
urban
mince

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Lesson 62

Lesson 63

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2.
3.
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23.

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23.

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20.
21.
22.
23.

barbs, afoot
harbinger
censorious
fractious, disinclination
droll
extant
anachronism
jargon
franchise
inconsequential
propriety
urbane
scanty
repress
perpetuate
opalescent
obviated
mettle
peevish
polyphony
simper
sublimated
renunciation

jaundiced
abode, threadbare
analgesic
incorporeal
dross
contusion
extradite
centrifuge
dereliction
lexicon
histrionics
lustrous
pejorative
proscribe
pragmatic
utter
submissive
tidings, pontificate
oculist
reparation
ruse
soliloquy
sinecure

Lesson 64

Lesson 65

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2.
3.
4.
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6.
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22.
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24.

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20.
21.
22.
23.
24.

materialized, sanctified
convocation
hidebound
desist
ancillary
fruition
ductile
jubilee
bedlam
exuded
inculcate
malady
vagabonds
sleuth
wane
mobile
omnipresent
percipient
tiers
posterity
venal
protagonist
sully
wary

baseness, carnal
analogous
inextricable
hermetic
extrapolation
derivative
incrusted
dub
jocose
convalescence
fraught
tome
saboteur
maelstrom
proselytizer
pendant
portal
sleeper
wanderlust
subterranean, wan
vacuity
superlative
mnemonic

cherubic
facile
coquette
flaunt
a cappella
despoiled
fugitive
dulcet
cosmetology, modicum
anecdote
aberration
slough
malapropism
omniscience
perdition
juncture
titanic
postscript
protean
wanton
sundered
metamorphosis
repose
fissure

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