Elite Vocab Set 751-775
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French | English |
|---|---|
 consign | v. to give to the care of another; to set apart |
| insouciant | adj. calm and untroubled; carefree; indifferent; |
| anomaly | n. a departure from the regular pattern |
| accolade | n. an award or honor; a sign of great respect |
| ire | n. anger |
| subsume | v. to include as part of a larger group |
| importune | v. to beg desperately and repeatedly |
| strident | adj. loud and shrill or grating |
| codify | v. to organize something (such as laws or rules) into a system |
| penury | n. lack of money, property, necessities |
| enclave | n. a country or other distinctly bounded area wholly surrounded by another area |
| iconoclast | n. one who attacks and seeks to destroy widely accepted ideas |
| pallid | adj. faint in color; pale |
| excoriate | v. to denounce sharply; to tear or wear the skin off |
| oxymoron | n. a figure of speech combining apparently contradictory terms, e.g., "darkness visible" |
| adhere | v. to stick to; to be a firm follower |
| burgeon | v. to sprout or grow rapidly |
| faux pas | n. a social blunder |
| bevy | n. a group, esp. of women or birds |
| impromptu | adj. without preparation |
| ductile | adj. easily shaped; capable of being persuaded easily |
| flout | v. to intentionally and obviously disobey |
| maul | v. to injure; mangle |
| nonplus | v. to put at a loss what to do or think |
| ensconce | v. to settle securely or snugly |
| renege | v. to fail to carry out a promise |
| tyranny | n. arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority |
| prowess | n. superior skill or ability |
| crop | v. to cut or bite the ends off; to trim |
| martial | adj. warlike |
| shoddy | adj. inferior or cheap |
| bizarre | adj. very odd in manner; grotesque; strange |
| cognition | n. the process of knowing; perception |
| resonant | adj. strong and deep in tone |
| prospect | n. the outlook for the future; a view, esp. of scenery |
| qualm | n. a sudden feeling of sickness; an uneasy feeling about the moral rightness of an action |
| desecrate | v. to violate the religious quality of something |
| banish | v. to drive away; to force to leave a place by official decree |
| authoritarian | n. demanding unquestioning obedience |
| alleviate | v. to reduce pain, esp. temporarily or without removing its cause |
| fiasco | n. a major disaster |
| eugenics | n. the study of hereditary improvement of human beings by controlled breeding |
| douse | v. to wet thoroughly |
| inadvertent | adj. unintentional; accidental |
| neologism | n. new word of phrase |
| catharsis | n. purging of the emotions |
| conducive | adj. tending to be bring about |
| haunt | v. to visit often or continually |
| interlocutor | n. someone who takes part in a conversation, esp. formally |
| theology | n. the study of the nature of God and religious truth |
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