Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 4
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SweetSerenity on January 10, 2008
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Affable | courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to |
| Aggrandize | To increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater |
| Amorphous | Shapeless, without definite form; of no particular character; without organization; unity, or cohesion |
| Aura | That which surrounds(as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal quality |
| Contraband | illegal traffic, smuggled goods; illegal, prohibited |
| Erudite | scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic |
| Gossamer | thin, light, delicate, insubstantial, a very thin, light cloth |
| Infer | to find out by reasoning, to arive at a conclusion on the basis of thought, to hint, suggest, imply |
| Inscrutable | incapable of being understood; impossible to see through physically |
| Insular | relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island, narrow or isolated in outlook or experience |
| Irrevocable | incapable of being changed or called back |
| Propensity | a natural inclination or predilection toward |
| Querulous | peevish, complaining fretful |
| Remonstrate | to argue or plead with someone against something, protest against, object to |
| Repudiate | To disown, reject, or deny the validity of |
| Resilient | able to return to an original shape or form, able to recover quickly |
| Reverberate | to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly |
| scurrilous | coarsely abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language). |
| Sedulous | Persistent, showing industry and determination |
| Sleazy | Thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy or inferior in quality of character; ethically low, mean, or disreputable |
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