Shelnut Vocab 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ambivalent | Exhibiting or feeling Uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow |
| Antipathy | A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance |
| Antipathy | Hatred or dislike |
| Bathos | Grossly sentimental pathos; Banality; triteness. |
| Beneficent | Beneficial, kind, charitable |
| Bombast | Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing |
| Candor | Frankness; openness |
| Choleric | Easily angered; bad-tempered |
| Conciliate | appease |
| Conciliate | To make or attempt to make compatible; reconcile |
| Connotation | A meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing |
| Contentious | Quarrelsome |
| Cynical | Skeptical |
| Cynical | Negative or pessimistic, scornfully skeptic |
| Denotation | The most specific or direct meaning of a word |
| Disdain | To regard or treat with haughty contempt; despise |
| Disdain | To consider or reject as beneath oneself. |
| Ebullient | Zestfully enthusiastic |
| Ebullient | Bubbly |
| Effusive | Excessive in emotional expression; gushy |
| Effusive | Profuse; overflowing |
| Empathize | To feel or experience empathy |
| Euphoria | A feeling of great happiness or well-being |
| Haughty | Condescending, scornfully proud |
| Incisive | Penetrating, clear, and sharp; deliberately profound and deep |
| Indictment | A written statement charging a party with the commission of a crime or other offense, drawn up by a prosecuting attorney and four and presented by a grand jury. |
| Indolence | Habitual laziness; sloth. |
| Insouciance | Lack of concern; nonchalance |
| Introspect | To look inside one's self |
| Jocund | Lighthearted. happy |
| Laconic | Marked by the use of few words; terse or concise |
| Languor | Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness. Lethargy |
| Lethargic | Listless, lacking energy |
| Lugubrious | Mournful, dismal, or gloomy |
| Melancholy | Sad or gloomy |
| Pathos | A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow. |
| Pedantic | ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules |
| Piety | The state or quality of being pious, especially religious devotion and reverence to God |
| Pithy | Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
| Polemic | A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion |
| Profundity | Great depth |
| Profundity | Depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning |
| Prudent | Wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense |
| Reticent | Restrained or reserved in style |
| Reticent | Reluctant; unwilling |
| Sanguine | Cheerfully confident; optimistic |
| Sardonic | Scornfully or cynically mocking |
| Servile | Abjectly submissive; slavish |
| Sinister | Threatening evil; Presaging trouble |
| Terse | Brief and to the point; concise: marked by the use of few words |
| Timorous | Timid |
| Transcendent | Surpassing others |
| Truism | A self-evident truth |
| Verbose | Wordy |
| Verisimilitude | Something that has the appearance of being true or real |
| Vitriolic | Bitterly scathing; caustic |
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