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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| obsequious | subservient |
| conciliatory | reconciling |
| meek | docile |
| shrew | scolding woman |
| malleable | changeable |
| tribulation | a trying experience |
| amiable | friendly |
| squabble | fight |
| insuperable | impossible to overcome |
| aversion | a feeling of revulsion |
| assiduous | careful and persistent |
| patrimony | heritage |
| incessant | unceasing |
| torrent | rush |
| alacrity | quickness in response |
| bilious | ill-natured |
| harangue | rant |
| vehement | forceful (v) |
| austere | morally strict |
| anachronism | thing that is out of place in time |
| urchin | street child |
| impunity | freedom from punishment |
| exhort | to incite by argument |
| precedent | an earlier occurence |
| ennui | boredom |
| sublime | lofty, exalted |
| mien | bearing |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| decorum | propriety |
| ominous | menacing |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| fiend | demon |
| pallid | pale |
| sepulcher | a place of burial |
| profuse | bountiful |
| secluded | hidden from view |
| august | majestically dignified |
| egress | exiting |
| voluptuous | full of delight to the senses |
| gaudy | tastelessy ornamented |
| monotonous | tediously uniform in tone |
| disconcerted | thrown into confusion |
| concerted | performed in unison |
| tremulous | timid |
| wanton | lewd |
| emphatic | forceful (e) |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| refrain | to resist an impulse |
| audacity | boldness |
| derision | ridicule showing contempt |
| progenitor | forefather |
| dearth | lack of |
| cogitate | think |
| ascetic | self-denying, especially of matierial pleasures |
| loathsome | hateful |
| exemplary | deserving imitation |
| emaciated | feeble, really thin |
| heterodox | unorthodox |
| somnambulist | sleepwalker |
| soporific | causing sleepiness |
| ignominious | deserving of shame |
| notorious | widely and unfavorably known |
| malevolent | evil |
| propinquity | kinship |
| scintillating | witty, stimulating |
| vivacious | lively |
| misanthrope | person who hates mankind |
| malign | speak evil of |
| abyss | bottomless gulf |
| vicissitude | the quality of being changeable |
| duplicity | contradictory actions or thoughts |
| transitory | of brief duration |
| abeyance | temporary inactivity |
| vindicate | to free from blame |
| debauchery | extreme indulgence |
| libido | sex drive |
| termagent | shrew |
| adherent | follower |
| Terms | 78 |
| Creator | 11caplan |
| Created | August 8, 2009 |
| Group | piglet ban-KAI |
| Subjects | DA, Biersach, English, Honors English 11 |
| Access | Anyone |
| Edit | Group: piglet ban-KAI |
There are a couple of words who could be widely defined a couple of ways. I'm putting the most common definitions in separately, with the most common defs labeled word (1)