Damaso Full Fahrenheit Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abrade (v) | to wear something away or be worn away by friction |
| blanch (v) | to whiten |
| blanch (v) | to briefly boil |
| breach (n) | a hole or gap |
| breach (v) | to break or surpass a limit |
| cadence (n) | rhythm in language |
| clad (adj) | dressed |
| convolutions (n) | rolled up condition |
| deluge (n) | a flood |
| deluge (v) | to flood |
| dictum (n) | a declaration |
| feign (v) | to pretend |
| fervor (n) | intensity or great warmth |
| filigree (n) | delicate or ornamental metalwork |
| gilt (adj) | covered in gold |
| grandiose (adj) | more complicated than necessary, pompous |
| heresy (n) | an opinion opposite the norm, especially in religion |
| incessant (adj) | unceasing |
| incite (v) | to stir up, to foment |
| insidious (adj) | harmful but hardly noticed |
| jargon (n) | vocabulary of a specific group |
| juggernaut (n) | a Hindu deity |
| juggernaut (n) | a crushing force |
| luminosity (n) | brightness |
| melancholy (n) | pensive sadess |
| melancholy (adj) | feeling sadness |
| moor (n) | wet wasteland; bog |
| odious (adj) | detestable |
| olfactory (adj) | related to smelling |
| pedant (n) | person who over emphasizes details |
| perfunctory (adj) | lacking interest |
| proboscis (n) | trunk, snout, nose |
| proclivity (n) | tendency, propensity |
| quibble (v) | to make trivial objections |
| quibble (n) | a petty objection |
| rend (v) | to tear apart |
| sieve (n) | a strainer |
| sieve (v) | to strain |
| stolid (adj) | unemotional |
| stratum (n) | layer |
| suffuse (v) | to spread over and through |
| tactile (adj) | touchable |
| tallow (n) | animal fat |
| titillate (v) | to excite, to cause somebody to tingle |
| torrent (n) | flood |
| trifle (n) | a thing of little value |
| verbiage (n) | wordiness |
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