Mr. Bardo's Vocab List (Impeccable - Calibrate)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Impeccable | Faultless; Flawless |
| Dharma | conformity to religious law |
| Galvanize | to startle into sudden activity |
| Rhetoric | the use of language |
| Innocuous | not interesting or stimulating |
| Propitious | presenting favorable conditions |
| Infirmity | a physical weakness |
| Injunction | a judicial order or command requiring the person or the persons whom it is directed to to refrain from or follow an activity |
| Indignation | strong displeasure at something considered unjust |
| Magnanimous | generous in forgiving an insult or injury |
| Effluvium | an unpleasant smell of waste |
| Affront | an offense to one's dignity or self-respect |
| Omniscience | infinite knowledge |
| Implore | to beg or ask earnestly; plead with |
| Remunerate | to pay or compensate |
| Pariah | an outcast of a low society |
| Apprehension | anticipation of adversity |
| Queue | a file or line |
| Jocularity | characterized by joking or good humor |
| Capricious | erratic |
| Implacable | not to be appeased or pacified |
| Trepidation | trembling or quivering movement |
| Solicit | to seek influence or incite to action |
| Desiccate | to dry out thoroughly |
| Insouciant | free from concern or worry |
| Collude | to conspire in a fraud |
| Equilibrium | a balance of opposing forces |
| Extricate | to free or release from entanglement |
| Corpulent | fat |
| Vindicate | to uphold or justify by argument or evidence |
| Decipher | to make out the meaning of |
| Inscrutable | not easily understood |
| Exhort | to urge or advise |
| Enervate | weaken |
| Calibrate | to plan or devise something carefully so as to have a precious use, application, or appeal |
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