ISEE Vocabulary > Group 33
Adage
a proverb expressing a truth
Amicable
friendly or good‐ natured
Artifice
trickery or deception
Bigot
a person intolerant of others
Cavalier
showing a lack of proper concern
Conniving
conspiring to do something illegal
Debacle
a sudden failure or fiasco
Dirge
a lament, song, or poem for the dead
Egress
exit or leave a place
Equanimity
composure under difficult situations
Fallacy
a mistaken or false belief
Gamut
complete scope or range of something
Hiatus
a pause or gap in a process
Impish
inclined to cause trouble for fun
Inert
lacking the ability to move
Invaluable
extremely useful or indispensable
Levity
lack of appropriate seriousness
Malediction
a curse or damnation
Megalomania
obsession with the exercise of power
Nepotism
favoring relatives/ friends with power
Pertinent
relevant to a particular matter
Puerile
childishly silly and trivial
Refute
prove something to be wrong
Saccharine
excessively sweet or sentimental
Semblance
outward form or appearance
Sparse
thinly dispersed or scattered
Superfluous
more than is required
Tout
aggressively try to sell something
Valiant
possessing courage or determination
Wistful
having vague or regretful longing
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