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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abhorrence | a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion (dislike) |
| bigot | a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, etc |
| hubris | excessive pride, arrogance |
| lassitude | lack or energy, listless, languor |
| fervor | great warmth and earnestness of feeling |
| miser | a stingy person |
| servile | slavishly submissive, fawning |
| frenetic | frantic, frenzied |
| strident | making or having a harsh sound |
| noisome | offensive, digusting odor (smell) |
| filigree | delicate oramental work of gold, silver, etc |
| supplicate | to pray humbly |
| beseech | to implore urgently, beg eagerly |
| coquette | a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men |
| pliable | easily bent |
| morose | gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood |
| ignominious | discreditable, humilitating, disgraceful |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| concede | to aknowledge as true |
| peculiarity | a trait, characteristic, something odd |
| countenance | noun - appearance, esp of the face |
| countenance | verb - to permit or tolerate |
| evince | to show clearly |
| aggrandize | to widen in scope OR to make greater in power, |
| belie | to shower to be false, contradict |
| diffident | lacking confidence, shy |
| mendacious | telling lies, dishonest |
| antagonism | an active hostility or opposition |
| castigate | criticize, reprimand severly |
| tepid | moderately warm, luke warm |
| salutary | tending to promote physical well-being |
| heretic | a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his church |
| excoriate | to denounce or berate severly |
| extoll | to praise highly of |
| purport | to present, express, imply ~ usually falsely |
| candor | the sate of being frank, open and sincere in speech or expression |
| dubious | doubtful |
| banal | lack of originality |
| promulgate | to make known by open declaration, publish |
| lampoon | a sharp satire directed against something (mock) |
| relegate | to send or consign to an inferior position |
| ineluctable | incapable of being evaded |
| invidious | hateful |
| plangent | resounding loudly |
| nugatory | of no real value |
| dnouement | the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot |
| antediluvian | very old, out of date |
| jejune | without interest or significance |
| tautology | needless repetition "...will win or not win" |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or uncertainty |
| peregrinate | to travel, esp on foot |
| prestidigitation | sleight of hands, legerdemain, trickery |
| peroration | long speech characterized by lofty or pompous language |
| stipulate | make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force |
| wallow | an indolent or clumsy rolling about OR live self indulgently |
| senescent | growing old, aging |
| superannuate | to retire, become old, etc |
| prim | proper |
| debilitate | to make weak |
| obsequious | fawning, obedient |
| quotidian | daily |
| consequential | 2nd def- important |
| obstreperous | resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner |
| acquiescent | consent tacitly |
| duplicity | double-dealing, speaking or acting 2 diff. ways |
| garrulous | excessively talkative |
| sordid | selfish, dirty, filthy |
| disingenuous | lakcing in frankness |
| hackneyed | overdone, overused |
| redact | revise, edit |
| dearth | lack, scarcity |
| gainsay | to deny |
| thwart | to oppose sucessfully |
| subdue | to conquer & bring into subjection |
| pedantic | overly concerned in minute details or showy in school |
| ostentatious | showy |
| despotic | having absolute rule |
| discern | to perceive by the sight or other sense |
| indigination | strong displeasure @ something unjust, offensive |
| ordain | confer holy upon (confer means consult) |
| enervate | to weaken |
| extrovert | an outgoing, gregarious(sociable) person |
| disconcert | to disturb the self possesion of |
| charlatan | a person who pretends to know more knowledge than he possesses, a quack |
| beleaguer | to surround /w military forces, harassed |
| supple | flexible, bending readily |
| moratorium | a suspension of activity |
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