CBEST Vocabulary with Correct Solutions 2024

CBEST Vocabulary with Correct Solutions 2024 Prescient - Answer -Knowing things or events before they happen; having foresight Perpetuate - Answer -To preserve from extinction Candor - Answer -Being open and honest in expression, frankness Abrogate - Answer -To abolish by formal or official means Pretext - Answer -(n.) a false reason, deceptive excuse Turgid - Answer -(adj.) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language Exceptionable - Answer -open to objection; causing disapproval or offense Categorically - Answer -absolutely; without exceptions Extolled - Answer -praised highly; exalted Expedient - Answer -(adj.) advisable, advantageous, serving one's self-interest Dearth - Answer -(n.) a lack, scarcity, inadequate supply; a famine Debacle - Answer -A sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat. Declaim - Answer -To speak loudly and with feeling Defamatory - Answer -(adj.) harmful toward another's reputation Demagogue - Answer -(n.) a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power Denizen - Answer -(n.) an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place Deride - Answer -(v.) to ridicule, laugh at with contempt Diffuse - Answer -Spread widely, disseminate (verb); dispersed, widely spread out, or wordy and going off-topic (adj) Digress - Answer -(v) go off-topic when speaking or writing Dilapidated - Answer -(adj.) falling apart or ruined, run-down