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The following words are word pairs:
abjure, repudiate
conundrum, enigma
equivocate, prevaricate
haughty, supercilious
indolent, shiftless
iota, scintilla
obstreperous, truculent
obtrusive, salient
pertinacious, tenacious
reticent, taciturn
Across
- To abjuremeans to repudiate, renounce under oath; to give up,
reject. - Obstreperousmeans noisily and stubbornly defiant; aggressively
boisterous, unruly; truculent. - Truculentmeans defiantly aggressive, obstreperous; fierce, violent;
bitterly expressing opposition. - An iotais a very small amount, a scintilla; the smallest possible
quantity. - Shiftlessmeans lazy and inefficient, indolent; lacking ambition,
initiative, or purpose. - Reticentmeans tending to keep one’s thoughts and feelings to
oneself; reserved, untalkative, taciturn. - Taciturnmeans habitually untalkative, reserved; reticent.
Down
- Superciliousmeans haughty; scornful, disdainful.
- To repudiatemeans to disown; disavow, reject completely, abjure.
- To equivocatemeans to use unclear or ambiguous language in order
to mislead or conceal the truth; prevaricate. - Obtrusivemeans prominent, undesirably noticeable; projecting,
thrusting out; salient. It also means tending to push one’s self or
ideas upon others; intrusive. - A conundrumis a hard riddle, an enigma; a puzzling question or
problem.