Greatest Hits
1. Latent – lying dormant until circumstances are suitable for
manifestation
2. Tenuous – Weak or slight, insubstantial
3. Titular – Holding a purely ornamental position
4. Trite – Lacking originality or freshness. Dullness, overused
5. Auspicious – Favourable, conductive to success
6. Multifarious – Many and of various types
7. Venerable – Accorded to a great deal of respect
8. Enigmatic – Difficult to understand, mysterious
9. Dubious – Hesitating or doubting
10. Avant-Garde – New and experimental (Ideas in art literature or
music)
11. Galvanizing – Shock or excite someone into taking actions
12. Dissension – disagreement that leads to discord
13. Discord – Disagreement between people
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15. Affectation – Behaviour, speech or writing that is false and
designed to impress
16. Romping – Play about roughly and energetically
17. Stately – dignified or grand
18. Tributaries – A river to stream flowing into a larger river/lake
19. Idiosyncratic – mode of behaviour or way of thought particular to
an individual
20. Superfluous – Unnecessary, more than required
21. Callous – Insensitive or cruel
22. Ambivalence – State of having mixed feelings about something
23. Analogous – Comparable in certain aspects
24. Arbitrary – Based on random choice instead of a fixed system
25. Benign – Gentle and kindly
26. Axiomatic – Self-evident, obvious
27. Enunciate – Say or pronounce clearly
28. Interspersed – Scatter among other things or diversify with other
things at fixed intervals
29. Denounce – To publicly declare to be wrong or evil
30. Eloquent – Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing
31. Explicit – State clearly or in detail, leaving no room for confusion
or doubt
32. Verisimilitude – The appearance of being true/real
a. Despite being a work of fiction, the movie possessed such
authentic characters and believable dialogue that critics praised
it for its verisimilitude
33. Peripheral – Related to or situated on the edge of something
34. Proponent – Person who advocates a theory, proposal or course
of action
35. Recants – to withdraw or reject publicly
36. Repudiate – Refuse to accept, reject
37. Ubiquitous – Present, appearing, found everywhere
38. Innocuous – Not harmful or offensive
39. Belies – Fail to give a true impression of something
40. Fiduciary – involving trust, especially with regard to the
relationship between a trustee and a beneficiary
41. Laments – a passionate expression of grief or sorrow
42. Chastisements – severe criticism: rebuke or strong reprimand
43. Consecrated – make or declare sacred
44. Inviolate – free or safe from injury or damage
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46. Positing – Put forward as fact or basis for argument
47. Discernible – recognizable, can be found out
48. Cordially – In a warm and friendly way, with intense feeling
49. Antecedent – A thing that precedes another or logically precedes
another
a. Some antecedents of the African novel might exist in Africa’s oral
traditions
50. Prudent – acting with or showing care and thought for the future
51. Inadvertently – without intention, accidently
52. Ameliorate – make something (bad or unsatisfactory) better
53. Evinced – reveal the presence of a quality or feeling, indicate
54. Contempt – the feeling that a person or thing is worthless beyond
consideration, disregard for something that should be considered.
55. Buttress – a source of defence or support
56. Coxcombical – A conceited foolish person
57. Conceited – Egotistical
58. Jackanapes – a cheeky person
59. Sardonic – Grimly mocking or cynical
60. Cynical – believing that people are motivated purely by self-
interest, being distrustful of others
61. Furtive – Avoiding notice or attention for fear or guilt, secretive
62. Redressing – remedy or set right an undesirable or unfair
situation
63. Paucity – the presence of something in only small or insignificant
amounts
64. Conflate – combine (e.g. two or more sets of information) into
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