Mama Grendel's vocab
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| concomitant |  occuring or existing at the same time; accompanying |
| eon | longest division of geologic time, containing two or more eras |
| extant | still in existance; not destroyed, lost, or extinct |
| hiatus | gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break |
| inure | to accustom to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection or expose |
| irrevocable | impossible to retract; irreversible |
| millenium | span of one thousand years |
| perpetuity | time without end; an eternity |
| pristine | typical of the earliest time or condition; original; primitive |
| transience | short life or existance; an impermanence |
| buffoon | clown or jester, especially one who make undignified, rude jokes |
| farce | comic play using exaggerated characters and improbable plots |
| irony | deliberate use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning |
| jocular | characterized by a joking manner |
| lampoon | good-natured written piece that pokes fun at something or somebody |
| levity | light and humorous manner or attitude, often when inappropriate |
| parody | comic imitation that exaggerates characteristics in order to poke fun |
| raillery | good-natured teasing or ridicule, particularly in a conversation |
| regale | to delight or give pleasure; to entertain |
| satirical | using sarcasm or sharp wit to expose human vice or weakness |
| adumbrate | to describe roughly or vaguely |
| arcane | known or understood only by a few |
| covert | concealed or hidden |
| educe | to draw of bring out |
| fathom | to understand |
| impenetrable | impossible to break through or enter |
| impervious | incapable of being affected or harmed |
| limpid | transparent; clear |
| manifest | clearly apparent or obvious |
| nebulous | cloudy, misty, or hazy |
| adjunct | something or someone attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position |
| amalgamate | to unite |
| compatriot | person from one's own country |
| conclave | secret or confidential meeting |
| contiguous | sharing an edge or boundary |
| diffuse | widely spread or scattered |
| diverge | to extend in different directions from a common point |
| parity | equality in amount or value |
| synergy | interaction of cooperation of agents or forces to that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects |
| transcend | to pass beyond the limits |
| axiomatic | self-evident; based on a universally accepted principle or rule |
| definitive | precisely described, defined, or characterized |
| dialectic | the practice of arriving at the truth by exchange of opposing logical arguements |
| empirical | relying on or derived from observation or experiment |
| presuppose | to believe or assume in advance |
| rationalize | to devise self-satisfying but incorrect reasons for behavior |
| rebuttal | opposing evidence or arguements or the presentation of those arguments |
| repudiate | to reject the truth, the authority, or the validity of |
| tenuous | having little strength or substance |
| verifiable | able to be proved by presentation of evidence or testimony |
| bedlam | a place or situation of noisy uproar or confusion |
| bowdlerize | to censor prudishly |
| chauvinism | a prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind |
| draconian | exceedingly harsh |
| martinet | rigid military disciplinarion |
| maudlin | overly emotional |
| mesmerize | to spellbind |
| silhouette | drawing of the outline of something |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| titanic | having enormous size, strength, power, or influence |
| exalt | to raise rank, character, status: to elevate |
| exhort | to urge by strong often stirring argument |
| garrulous | given to excessive and often trivial talk |
| gist | the central idea |
| histrionics | afffected |
| laconic | terse of concise |
| polemic | relating to a controversy or agument |
| peremptory | putting an end to all debate of action |
| vivacious | full of animation and spirit |
| vociferous | loud and noisy; compelling attention |
| unscathed | unentered of not harmed |
| scourge | a cause of great harm, a war |
| salubrious | conducive to health or well being |
| prostrate | laying flat face down at full length |
| pestilence | a usually epidemic disease |
| noxious | poison or harmful to living things |
| moribund | about to die; on the verge of being outdated |
| livid | furious with anger; black or blue |
| debilitate | to weaken or zap strength of |
| atrophy | to deteriorate, to wither away |
| stoic | a person who is unaffected by pleasure or pain, not to show feeling |
| pertinacity | stubbornness; to hold fast to |
| irresolute | undecided about what to do, wavering |
| indefatigable | tireless,unable to be tired |
| contumacy | a scornful resistance to authority, or rebelliousness |
| audacious | showing a willingness to offend others |
| obsequious | excessively eager to serve another, fawning |
| obdurate | persistence in wrong doing |
| eclat | brilliance in achievement or success |
| dour | sternly stubborn ill tempered or gloom |
| voluminous | of great size; numerous; writing or speaking at great length |
| replete | abundantly supplied; filled to capacity |
| parsimony | stinginess; excessive frugality |
| prodigal | wasteful, a person given to extravagance |
| florid | elaborately or excessively ornamented |
| myriad | innumerable |
| insatiable | impossible to satiate or satisfy |
| avarice | extreme greed for material wealth |
| inundate | to flood, overflow; to overwhelm by numbers or size |
| austere | strict, stern; unadorned, ascetic |
| contrite | feeling regret for a fault or offence |
| iniquity | morally objectionable behavior |
| impute | attribute or credit to |
| restitution | the act of restoring something to its original state |
| redress | act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil |
| clemency | Mercy or leniency granted to an offender by a chief executive |
| bilk | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of |
| vindicate | clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof |
| abscond | run away |
| reprehensible | bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure |
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