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hannahrichardson on March 8, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 torrid | adj, hot |
| stentorian | adj, loud |
| deleterious | adj, harmful |
| apocryphal | adj, of doubtful authenticity |
| jocose | adj, jesting |
| execrable | adj, detestable |
| gigolo | n, man financially supported by a woman |
| anathema | n, a person cast out and detested; curses |
| incursion | n, sudden invasion |
| cite | v, to quote from; n, summons; v, mentioned honorably |
| atoll | n, ring-shaped coral island |
| fell | adj, cruel; deadly |
| diva | n, female opera star |
| zephyr | n, gentle breeze |
| egregious | adj, flagrantly bad |
| emolument | n, salary |
| immanent | adj, present within |
| yaw | v, to swing off course |
| atone | v, to make amends |
| eclogue | n, short pastoral poem |
| checkered | adj, marked by changes of fortune; having a pattern of squares |
| salubrious | adj, beneficial |
| oleaginous | adj, oily; smoothly bland |
| frenetic | adj, hectic; frantic |
| intransigent | adj, unwilling to compromise |
| perfunctory | adj, mechanically routine |
| pusillanimous | adj, fainthearted |
| turbid | adj, muddy |
| cambric | n, finely-woven linen |
| gastronomy | n, the art of good eating |
| apotheosis | n, elevation to a godlike state; ultimate expression |
| gratis | adj, without charge |
| moot | adj, debatable; devoid of practical significance; v, to raise |
| tier | n, row |
| espouse | v, to marry; to support |
| genuflect | v, to bend the knee in worship |
| clarion | adj, brilliantly clear |
| risible | adj, arousing laughter |
| annular | adj, circular |
| attenuate | v, to weaken; adj, thin |
| aeon | n, indefinitely long period of time |
| abrogate | v, to abolish |
| feral | adj, beastlike |
| emollient | n, soothing ointment |
| endemic | adj, restricted to a particular area |
| splenetic | adj, easily irritated |
| retrograde | adj, tending to make things worse; directed backward |
| chiarascuro | n, pictorial use of light and shade |
| litigation | n, legal action |
| appendage | n, attachment |
| canon | n, complete works; important principle; member of the clergy attached to a cathedral; body of law |
| simian | adj, apelike |
| factious | adj, caused by a group of quarrelsome dissenters |
| factitious | adj, artificial |
| sanguine | adj, cheerful; ruddy |
| descry | v, to catch sight of |
| savant | n, scholar |
| mountebank | unscrupulous faker |
| beget | v, to become the father of |
| obloquy | n, condemnatory statements; disgrace |
| dialectical | n, logical argument |
| roseate | adj, overly optimistic; pink |
| puerile | adj, childishly immature |
| debilitated | adj, enfeebled |
| bellicose | adj, warlike |
| elixir | n, medical preparation; magical prolonger |
| ciliated | adj, having minute hairs |
| atelier | n, artist's studio |
| scintilla | n, tiny particle |
| spatial | adj, relating to space |
| singular | adj, denoting only one; strange; rare; n, separateness |
| indigent | adj, poor |
| diurnal | adj, active in the daytime; daily |
| sentient | adj, having feelings |
| insular | adj, of an island; narrow-minded |
| archipelago | n, sea containing many scattered islands; cluster of islands |
| pendent | adj, hanging |
| pendant | n, hanging ornament |
| peon | n, unskilled worker |
| tyro | n, beginner |
| fiat | n, command of the ruler |
| opalescent | adj, of changing colors |
| veracious | adj, habitually truthful |
| heinous | adj, wicked |
| brackish | adj, somewhat salty |
| sacerdotal | adj, priestly |
| quiescent | adj, inactive |
| cabal | n, small group of plotters; conspiracy |
| dotage | n, feeble-minded state due to old age |
| gyrate | v, to move in a spiral path; to move irregularly |
| overrule | v, to decide against |
| ensconced | v, to conceal; to be settled in place |
| triptych | n, picture formed of three parts |
| uxorious | adj, excessively devoted to one's wife |
| corporeal | adj, physical |
| sanguinary | adj, murderous; bloody |
| caulk | v, to stop up |
| adduce | v, to present |
| mawkish | adj, sentimental |
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