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5-Advanced Vocabulary in Context-Description & A ...

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  • The room's colors and design gave it an elegant artistic appearance. What word describes this visual style?
    Aesthetic
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  • A medieval knight checks a smartwatch in the film. The detail is ____.
    Anachronistic
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  • Climbing the steep mountain in a snowstorm required great effort. It was an ____ task.
    Arduous
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  • The speech repeated obvious ideas and bored everyone. It was ____.
    Banal
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  • Horns, shouting, and alarms made a harsh mixture of sounds. What noun names it?
    Cacophony
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  • The event failed completely when the power went out and the audience left. It was a ____.
    Debacle
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  • The two ideas come from fundamentally different fields. They are ____ ideas.
    Disparate
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  • The article contained a shockingly bad factual error. The error was ____.
    Egregious
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  • The rainbow lasted only a few minutes. Its beauty was ____.
    Ephemeral
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  • Missing sleep made her stress worse. What verb means to make a problem worse?
    Exacerbate
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  • Dark clouds appeared before the storm. They were a ____ of the storm.
    Harbinger
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  • The clock kept moving forward and could not be stopped. Its progress was ____.
    Inexorable
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  • Even experts can make mistakes nobody is ____. Fill in the word meaning incapable of error.
    Infallible
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  • The harm developed slowly and secretly, so no one noticed at first. It was ____.
    Insidious
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  • Planting trees may reduce the severity of air pollution. What verb means to reduce its severity?
    Mitigate
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  • After the policy changed, the old question was no longer practically relevant. It became ____.
    Moot
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