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Created by:
dneidinger on September 22, 2009
Subjects:
english vocabulary, english vocab, english
Description:
First Yo Mama vocab set
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Print List| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| ubiquitous | being present everywhere at once |
| emaciated | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| pallid | abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress |
| voracious | excessively greedy and grasping |
| hirsute | having or covered with hair |
| corpulent | excessively fat |
| malapropism | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar |
| largesse | liberality in bestowing gifts |
| egregious | conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible |
| unctuous | excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable |
| portmanteau | a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings |
| sesquipedalian | (of words) long and ponderous |
| wizened | lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness |
| redundant | use of more words than required to express an idea |
| ephemeral | enduring a very short time |