Sheppard 7
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 fain | happily, perferably; eager, compelled to as in forced by obligation |
| recondite | obscure, abstruse, complex, esoteric or hidden |
| warrant | merit or deserve, demand, guarantee, affirm, assure |
| fastidious | finiky or picky, fussy, choosy, persnickety; painstaking, precise |
| vitriolic | spiteful, venomous, acerbic, vicious, caustic |
| limpid | clear and transparent, lucid; unworried, calm, composed |
| untenable | indefensable, weak, invalid, flawed |
| esoteric | obscure, arcane, cryptic, mysterious |
| vicissitude | unexpected changes, fortunes |
| zeitgeist | the ideas prevalent in a period or place, the spirit of the age |
| gamut | the full range, length, extent, breadth |
| ineluctable | unavoidable, inescapable, ordained, inexorable, unavoidable |
| nexus | connection, link, center, foucs |
| surmise | guess, deduce, infer, construe, assume, postulate,;guesswork, inference, deduction, hypothesis, theory |
| maligner | shirk, feign illness, play hooky |
| harbinger | portent, omen, forerunner, herald |
| hiatus | gap, pause, break, lull, interval |
| plaintive | mournful, nostalgic, melancholic, sad, lamenting |
| spectral | ghostlty, phantom, haunted, supernatural, ethereal |
| bemuse | confuse, bewilder, puzzle, perplex, muddle |
| imperious | domineering, authoritative, arrogant, haughty |
| sophistry | flawed method of argumentation, faulty logic or reasoning that seems good, but it only clever and dishonest |
| tirade | outburst, diatribe, harangue, jeremaid, rant, invective |
| lurid | garish, gaudy, vivid, loud, explicit, sensational, shocking |
| vociferous | voluble, enthusiastic, raucous, strident, noisy |
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