Midterm Vocab Def
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danielle_hadler on December 29, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Rabid | Furious, violently intense, unreasonably extreme, mad, infected w/rabies |
| Sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
| Diligent | hardworking, industrious, not lazy |
| Morose | having a gloomy or sullen manner, not friendly or sociable |
| Pliant | bending readily, easily influenced |
| Unflinching | firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back |
| Lucrative | bringing in money, profitable |
| Condone | to pardon or overlook |
| Atone | to make up for |
| Flippant | lacking in seriousness, disrespectful, saucy |
| Superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess |
| Pilfer | to steal in small quantities |
| Assurance | a pledge, freedom from doubt, self-confidence |
| Larceny | theft |
| Biased | Favoring one side unduly, prejudiced |
| Shoddy | of poor quality, characterized by inferior workmanship |
| Adjourn | to stop proceedings temporarily, move to another place |
| Militant | given to fighting, active and aggressive in support of a cause, an activist |
| Realm | a kingdom, a region or field of study |
| Tenacious | holding fast, holding together firmly, persistent |
| Cumbersome | clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving |
| Inundate | to flood, overflow, to overwhelm by numbers or size |
| Impoverished | poor, in a state of poverty, depleted |
| Compensate | to make up for, to repay for services |
| Hoodwink | to mislead by trick, deceive |
| Muddle | to make a mess of, muddle through, to get by, a hopeless mess |
| Breach | an opening, gap, rupture, rift, a violation or infraction, (v) to create an opening, break through |
| Perennial | lasting for a long time, persistent, a plant that lives for many years |
| Fortify | to strengthen, build up |
| Assimilate | to absorb fully or make one's own, to adopt as one's own, to adapt fully |
| Feint | a deliberately deceptive movement, a pretense, to make a deceptive movement, to make a pretense of |
| Venture | a risky or daring undertaking, to expose to danger, to dare |
| Succumb | to give way to superior force, yield |
| Altercation | an angry argument |
| Diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely, wordy, long-winded, or unfocused, scattered or widely spread |
| Predispose | to incline to beforehand |
| Warp | to twist out of shape, an abnormality |
| Hamper | to hold back |
| Prattle | to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way, to babble, N baby talk, babble |
| Terse | brief and to the point |
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