MLK & Frederick Douglass Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 impertinent | inappropriate, incongruous, irrelevant, or absurd |
| intimation | a fact made known subtly and discreetly |
| odiousness | deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable |
| deference | submission or courteous yielding to the opinion or wishes of another |
| cudgel | a short, thick stick used as a weapon |
| evinced | to show clearly; make evident |
| privation | lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life |
| reposed | to put (confidence, trust, etc.) in a person or thing |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed or described in words |
| obdurate | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding |
| sundered | to break or wrench apart; sever |
| imbibe | to receive or absorb into the mind and retain |
| execrate | to detest utterly; abhor; abominate |
| impudence | the quality of being offensively bold |
| immutable | not subject or susceptible to change; definite |
| debasing | lowering in character, quality, or value; degrading |
| consummate | complete or perfect, being of the highest or most extreme degree |
| depravity | moral corruption |
| chattel | slave/tangible property |
| divest | to strip or deprive |
| prudence | caution/discretion with regard to practical matters |
| unabated | undiminished |
| stultified | rendered absurd, useless, or foolish |
| felicitous | well suited or appropriate |
| perspicacity | keeness of understanding |
| canard | a false or baseless story...usually a derogatory report or rumor |
| profligate | recklessly wasteful...utterly and shamelessly immoral |
| dissipation | a wasting by misuse...dissolute way of living |
| impassable | unable to be surmounted |
| piety | reverence for God...devout fulfillment of religious obligations |
| exhorter | preacher or clergyman...one who incites, urges, or advises |
| sagacity | acuteness of discernment |
| pernicious | harmful or ruinous |
| forte | strong point |
| apostrophe | direct address to something absent |
| quail(ed) | shrank back in fear, cowered |
| staid | steady, composed, regular |
| imprudent | incautious, rash, lacking discretion |
| imbue | to inspire with feelings |
| impropriety | incorrectness or inappropriatepness |
| redress | compensation or satisfaction for a wrong |
| exculpate | to clear from guilt or fault |
| commensurate | having the same measure |
| ardor | fever, passion, great warmth or feeling |
| palpably | clearly or tangibly, so as to have readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc. |
| habiliment | clothes for a particular profession |
| vestige | a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence |
| odium | intense hatred or dislike |
| emaciated | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| offal | the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible hy human beings; carrion |
| consign | give over to another for care or safekeeping |
| montage | a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photos to form an artistic image |
| sonorous | full, loud and deep |
| circumscription | restriction/confinement |
| nuanced | subtlely different in meaning, opinion or attitude |
| impetus | a force that moves something along |
| audacious | invulnerable to fear/intimidation...bold |
| sanctimony | the quality of being hypocritically devout |
| existential | derived from experience |
| assimilationist | one who wants to absorb one cultural group into harmony with another |
| bourgeois | belonging to the middle class |
| manacled | confined or restrained with something like handcuffs |
| succor | help in a difficult situation |
| anomalous | devious from common order |
| sanguine | optomistic |
| caluminator | liar |
| imbruted | degraded to the level of a beast |
| execrable | unequivocally detestable |
| salutary | tending to promote physical well-being |
| pernicious | exceedingly harmful |
| veracity | unwillingness to tell lies (truthfulness) |
| cognizant | fully informed; conscious |
| grapple | to try to overcome or deal |
| gainsay | to deny, dispute or contradict |
| provincial | narrow-minded |
| notorious | publicly or generally known, as for a particular trait |
| concur | to accord in opinion; agree |
| moratorium | a suspension of activity |
| unfettered | to free from restraint; liberate. |
| gadflies | a person who persistently annoys or provokes others with criticism, schemes, ideas, demands, requests, etc. |
| impunity | exemption from punishment |
| harried | harassed, annoyed, or proved a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry |
| relegating | to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition |
| rabid | irrationally extreme in opinion or practice |
| existential | pertaining to existence |
| paternalistically | the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children |
| precipitate | to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly |
| vitriolic | very caustic; scathing |
| elegy | a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead |
| repudiated | rejected as having no authority or binding force |
| zeitgeist | the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time |
| languished | to have become weak or feeble; droop; fade |
| anesthetizing | to render physically insensible, as by an anesthetic |
| interposition | the doctrine that an individual state of the U.S. may oppose any federal action it believes encroaches on its sovereignty |
| nullification | to make invalid |
| laxity | the state or quality of being lax; looseness |
| ineffectual | powerless; impotent |
| profundity | the quality or state of being profound; depth |
| scintillating | animated; vivacious; effervescent |
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