Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster: Verbal Advantage CD 07 of 12 Level 03 Words 41-50 CD Track Listing

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Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster Verbal Advantage CD 07 of 12 Level 03 Words 41-50 (1999)
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1. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T01: L03W41, Adroit (03:32)
   Skillful, clever, dexterous; specifically, showing skill in using one's hands or in using one's brains.\nSynonyms: deft, resourceful, ingenious, artful adept.\nAntonyms: awkward, clumsy inept, maladroit (mal-uh-DROYT).\nEtymology tips and related words: A
2. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T02: L03W42, Platitude (01:57)
   A flat, dull, ordinary, remark, a trite statement or hackneyed saying, expecially one uttered as if it were original or profund.\nSynonyms: cliche, truism, bromide (BROH-myd)\nEtymology: Platitude comes from the French word for flat, and means literally "
3. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T03: L03W43, Fastidious (04:28)
   (1) Extremely delicate, sensitive, or particular, especially in matters of taste or behavior.\nSynonyms: dainty, fussy, finicky, overnice.\n(2) Hard to please, extremely picky or demanding, exacting, critical to a fault.\nEtymology and usage: Fastiduous d
4. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T04: L03W44, Vendetta (02:01)
   A bitter, protracted feud or rivalry.\nEtymology: Vendetta comes through Italian from the Latin vindicata, revenge, or vengeance.\nRelated word: vindictive, vengeful, seeking revenge.\nUsage: Vendetta refers specifically to the violent tradition of freven
5. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T05: L03W45, Lucid (01:46)
   (1) Clear, easy to see or understand, plainly expressed.\n(2) Clear of mind, mentally sounds, rational, sane.\nSynonyms: (sense 1) intelligle, comprehensible, limpid, perspicuous (pur-SPIK-yoo-us).\nAntonyms: murky, obscure, befuddled, nebulous, ambiguous
6. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T06: L03W46, Salient (01:28)
   Comspicuous, noticeable, prominent; sticking or jutting out.\nSynonyms: protuding, manifest, obtrusive, protuberent.\nAntonyms: inconspicuous, unassuming, unobtrusive, indiscernible, unostentatious.\nEtymology and usage: Salient comes from the Latin verb
7. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T07: L03W47, Categorical (02:12)
   Absolute, unqualified, explicit; without exceptions, conditions, or qualifications.\nAntonyms: ambiguous, doubtful, dubious, indefinite, enigmatic, equivocal.\nUsage: Categorical refers to statements or assertions that are absolute, unqualified, direct an
8. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T08: L03W48, Inscrutable (02:34)
   Incomprehensible, unfathomable, extremely difficult to understand, not open to investigation or analysis.\nSynonyms: mysterious, impenetrable, esoteric, arcane (ar-KAYN).\nAntonyms: lucid, perspicuous\nEtymology: Inscrutable combines the negative prefix i
9. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T09: L03W49, Construe (01:29)
   To interpret, explain the meaning or intention of.\nRelated words: construct, construction.\nEtymology: By derivation, the verb to construe means to put a particular construction on something, to interpret it, explain its underlying meaning or intention.
10. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T10: L03W50, Allue (01:46)
    To refer to something indirectly, make a causual reference.\nSynonyms: suggest, hint, insinuate, intimate (IN-ti-mayt).\nAntonyms: indicate, specify, detail, enumerate.\nCorresponding noun: allusion, an indirect, casual, or passing reference.
11. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T11: Review W41-W50 (03:49)
12. Verbal Advantage: Charles Harrington Elster - VACD07T12: Words into Action (09:32)