Gardner-Griffin English IIH Vocab List
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cachinnate | to laugh loudly or immoderately |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend; recondite (recondite - hidden from sight, concealed; difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend; of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure) |
| bon vivant | a person having cultivated, refined, and sociable tastes especially with respect to food or drink |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed; assumed to exist or have existed |
| validate | to make legally valid, ratify; to grant official sanction to by marking; to confirm the validity of; also, to declare a person elected; to support or corroborate on a sound or authoritative basis; to recognize, establish, or illustrate the worthiness, or legitimacy of |
| satiety | the quality or state of being fed or gratified beyond capacity; surfeit, fullness; the revulsion or disgust caused by overindulgence or excess |
| torrid | parched with heat, especially of the sun; hot; giving off intense heat, scorching; ardent, passionate |
| pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of; soothe; to restore to a tranquil state; settle; to reduce to a submissive state; subdue |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint; difficult to manage or operate, not responsive to treatment, resistant |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object, gap; a gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ; an interruption in time or continuity; break, especially a period when something is suspended or interrupted; the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound |
| rash | marked by or proceeding from undue haste or lack of deliberation or caution |
| carp | to find fault or complain querulously |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk, wordy; given to fluent or excessive talk, garrulous |
| alleviate | relieve, lessen; to make (as suffering) more bearable; to partially remove or correct |
| emote | to given expression to emotion especially in acting |
| querulous | habitually complaining, fretful, whining |
| derring-do | daring action, daring |
| piquant | agreeably stimulating to the palate, especially spicy; engagingly provocative; having a lively arch charm |
| nebbish | a timid, meek, or ineffectual person |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind; social; marked by or indicating a liking for companionship, sociable; of or relating to a social group; growing in a cluster or a colony; living in contiguous nests but not truly forming a colony--esp. of wasps and bees |
| maledicton | curse, execration |
| vindicate | avenge, to free from allegation or blame; confirm, substantiate, to provide justification or defense for, justify; to protect from attack or encroachment, defend; to maintain a right to |
| argot | an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| kowtow | to show obsequious deference, fawn; to kneel and touch the forehead to ground in token of homage, worship, or deep respect |
| unabashed | not disconcerted, undisguised, unapologetic |
| obliterate | to remove from recognition or memory, to remove from existence; to make undecipherable by wiping out or covering up |
| notorious | generally known of and talked of, esp. widely and unfavorably known |
| spiel | a voluble line of often extravagant talk; speech delivered especially to sell or promote something |
| tub-thumper | a vociferous supporter (as of a cause) |
| oppugn | to fight against; to call in question |
| pippin | a crisp, tart apple having usually yellow or yellow-greenish skin strongly flushed with red and used especially for cooking; a highly admired or very admirable person or thing |
| demarcate | to fix or define the limits of, delimit; to set apart, distinguish |
| multitudinous | including a multitude of individuals; existing in a great multitude; existing in or consisting of innumerable elements or aspects |
| hypnagogic | of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep |
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