Jazz Vocab 1
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unomomento13 on March 5, 2012
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63 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abstracted | removed in thought from the immediate situation |
| abyss | bottomless hole |
| acuity | sharpness of perception |
| addenda | something added, usually to a book |
| aesthetic | relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art |
| ambiguous | having more than one meaning; uncertain, unclear |
| amorphous | shapeless |
| antecedents | preceding a cause |
| apathy | lack of concern or feeling; indifference |
| append | to add in a supplementary manner |
| banter | to speak in a witty or teasing manner |
| commensurate | equal |
| complacency | the state of being self-satisfied |
| confound | to cause one to be confused |
| convivial | fond of good company and of festivity |
| corpulent | state of being very fat |
| corroborated | confirmation |
| corrugated | bend into folds |
| credulous | believing on slight evidence; gullible |
| debauchee | moral corruption |
| defunct | no longer existing; dead |
| dilatory | delaying; slow |
| din | loud and discordant noises |
| eddies | a current of air or water moving contrary to the main current |
| elicited | to bring out a response |
| endow | to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality |
| fractiousness | unruly |
| feign | pretend to be affected by; false appearance |
| florid | flowery; flushed with color and decorated nicely |
| garnished | to decorate |
| garrulous | talkative |
| haughty | arrogant, excessively proud and vain |
| impetuously | violent, hasty, rash, impulsive |
| incessant | uninterrupted |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in speech or words |
| ingratiate | to make an effort to gain good favor with someone |
| insidious | treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| inviolate | secure from violation or from being profaned |
| juxtaposition | to place closely together or side by side |
| languid | slow, sluggish |
| laudable | to praise |
| levity | excessive frivolity |
| magnanimous | having a lofty, generous, and contagious spirit |
| obstinate | unyielding regardless of reasoning or logic |
| plagiarize | to steal and use another's writing writings as one's own |
| pneumatic | pertaining to air or gas |
| poignant | piercing, incisive, and keen |
| precipitately | to cause to speedily occur |
| prodigality | wasteful |
| provincial | lacking sophistication; narrow-minded |
| punctilious | stressing precise following of instructions |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| rend | to tear violently, to split |
| reverent | to honor, to regard with respect |
| somnambulist | a sleepwalker |
| stratum | a horizontal layer |
| strident | loud and harsh sounding |
| superfluous | beyond what is needed or required |
| turgid | swollen |
| presumptuous | brazenly overstepping bounds, arrogant |
| vista | a distant view seen through an opening |
| vacuous | lacking content; marked by a lack of intelligence |
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