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EXPLANATION
Uncouth: lacking in good manner
A) Urbane: having or showing refined manner
B) Travail: An unpleasant experience or situation that involves a lot of effort or
suffering
C) Sentient: capable of perceiving or feeling things
D) Prevaricate: to speak or act in a way that misleads others
E) Maladroit: not clever or skillful
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS A

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EXPLANATION
Truncate: to make something shorter by cutting off the top or end
A) Enlarge: to make something large
B) Extrude: to force or squeeze something into or out of something by pressure
C) Intrepid: without fear; brave
D) Pique: a feeling of annoyance or presentment
E) Vacillate: to keep changing one’s mind
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS A

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EXPLANATION
Sagacious: showing wisdom and good judgment
A) Trepidation: great worry or fear about something unpleasant that may happen
B) Perspicuity: having or showing great judgment
C) Frugal: using as little as possible of something
D) Garish: bright in a harsh unpleasant way
E) Ignorant: lacking wisdom and good judgment
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS E

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EXPLANATION
Peremptory: insisting on immediate attention or obedience
A) Glaucous: Eye disease causing gradual loss of sight
B) Docile: doing nothing
C) Extricate: to free or release oneself from something
D) Panegyric: a speech or piece of writing praising somebody or something
E) Mnemonics: designed to help the memory
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS B

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EXPLANATION
Inexorable: impossible to change or prevent
A) Surreptitious: done or acting secretly
B) Tractable: easy to control or influence
C) Jaded: tired and lacking interest or pleasure
D) Iconoclast: a person who attacks popular beliefs
E) Garish: bright in a harsh unpleasant way
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS B