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pcrockford on May 6, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Prodigal | Spendthrift, extravagen person; opp. economical person |
| Officious | meddlesome; helpful in excessive, offensive amount |
| Sycophant | Fawning |
| Opulence | Wealth, affluence |
| Penury | Extreme poverty |
| Typify | express indirectly by an image, form, or model |
| Hone | To sharpen; opp. to dull |
| Banality | Common place |
| Chicanery | the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
| Abase | Lower, degrade humiliate |
| Sumptuous | rich and superior in quality |
| Enervate | weaken mentally or morally |
| Parsimonious | excessively unwilling to spend |
| Chary | characterized by great cautious and wariness |
| Stupefy | make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow |
| Cogent | powerfully persuasive |
| Fickle | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
| Stilted | artificially formal |
| Quixotic | not sensible about practical matters |
| Mirth | great merriment |
| Restiveness | characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright |
| Prevaricate | be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information |
| Bilk | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of |
| Mollify | make less rigid or softer |
| Nettle | cause annoyance in |
| Replete | fill to satisfaction |
| Assuage | provide physical relief, as from pain |
| Paltry | contemptibly small in amount |
| Exhort | urge on or encourage especially by shouts |
| Splenetic | very irritable |
| Adherent | someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another |
| Fetter | a shackle for the ankles or feet |
| Castigate | inflict severe punishment on |
| Gambol | gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement |
| mellifluous | pleasing to the ear |
| Diminution | the act of decreasing or reducing something |
| Augment | enlarge or increase |
| Distend | swell from or as if from internal pressure |
| Crestfallen | brought low in spirit |
| Pulchritude | physical beauty (especially of a woman) |
| Erudite | having or showing profound knowledge |
| Placate | cause to be more favorably inclined |
| Laudable | worthy of high praise |
| Pedant | a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit |
| Vacillate | be undecided about something |
| Capricious | determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason |
| Loquacious | full of trivial conversation |
| Laconic | brief and to the point |
| belies | contradicts |
| antiquated | so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period |
| calumny | an abusive attack on a person's character or good name |
| salubrious | promoting health |
| opprobrious | (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame |
| endemic | native to or confined to a certain region |
| vicissitude | a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something |
| petulant | easily irritated or annoyed |
| tempestuous | (of the elements) as if showing violent anger |
| mercurial | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
| pliant | capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out |
| frenetic | excessively agitated |
| arrogates | To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds. |
| eschew | avoid and stay away from deliberately |
| apogee | highest point; the point farthest from the earth; OP. perigee |
| impugn | attack as false or wrong |
| sinecure | an office that involves minimal duties |
| ostentatious | intended to attract notice and impress others |
| ebullience | overflowing with enthusiasm |
| acumen | The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| specious | Superficially plausible, but actually wrong |
| discretionary | Available for use at the discretion of the user |
| Lurid | Very vivid in color, esp. so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect |
| contemporaneous | Existing or occurring in the same period of time |
| recused | (of a judge) Excuse oneself from a case because of a possible conflict of interest or lack of impartiality |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
| Mundane | belonging to this earth or world |
| Sublime | inspiring awe |
| recused | (of a judge) Excuse oneself from a case because of a possible conflict of interest or lack of impartiality |
| modicum | a small or moderate or token amount |
| sanguine | confidently optimistic and cheerful |
| sardonic | disdainfully or ironically humorous |
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