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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Feign | to imitate deceptively, to make believe, pretend |
| Wan | of unnatural or sickly pallor |
| Complacent | Often without awareness of some potencial danger or defect |
| Anon | in a short time |
| Contiguous | connecting without a break |
| Interpose | to step in between parties at variance |
| Apathetic | not interested or concerned |
| Languid | Lacking in spirit or interest |
| Strident | Having a shrill, irritating quality or character |
| Deft | nimble, skillful, clever |
| Clad | dressed, covered |
| Erroneous | containing error, mistaken, incorrect, wrong |
| Vehement | Strongly emotional |
| Cordial | courteous and gracious |
| Impetuous | Characterized by sudden or rash actions |
| Vacuous | Lacking in ideas or intelligence |
| Corpulent | Large or bulky of body |
| Provincial | Having the manners, and viewpoints considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitance of a province. |
| Din | a loud, confused noise |
| Knickerbocker | any New Yorker |
| Valor | Heroic courage, bravery |
| Somnambulatory | related to sleep walking |
| Denizen | an inhabitant, a resident |
| Jaunty | easy and sprightly in manner or bearing |
| Obstinate | Inflexible, Stubborn, not yielding |
| Exult | to show , to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice; be highly elated or jubilant |
| Hulking | heavy and clumsy |
| Nebulous | hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused |
| Laudable | deserving praise |
| Insidious | intended to entrap |
| Debauch | an uninhibited spree or party |
| integrated | to establish in favore of others by deliberate effort |
| Dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate |
| Tumult | uproar, disorder |
| Portentous | ominous, predictive of future bad events |
| Rancor | resentment or ill will |
| Settee | a seat for two or more persons |
| Garrulous | excessively talkative in rambling |
| Pasquinate | a satire or lampoon |
| Elocution | a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public |
| Gratis | free |
| Gravity | seriousness, importance |
| Grievous | Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow |
| Impertinent | Insolently rude, not within the proper bounds of good taste or manners |
| Impugn | to assail of attack ones honor |
| impute | to blame or to charge |
| Jaundiced | prejudice, having hostile attitude resulting from distorted reasoning |
| Malice | desire to harm others |
| Melancholy | Depression of spirits |
| Mirth | gladness and merriment usually accompanied by by laughter |
| Mitigate | to cause to become to become less harsh or hostile. |
| Obdurate | extremely stubborn |
| obscure | difficult to see |
| peevish | fretful, obstinate |
| Perjury | False testimony under oath |
| Presage | something tat foreshadows a future event |
| prodigal | Wasteful, a person given to extravagance |
| Quaint | usual in character or appearance |
| Spurn | To reject or refuse with hostility |
| Superflous | beyond what is needed or required, an overflow |
| Surfeited | fed of supplied to excess |
| tarry | to delay in coming or going |
| trifling | not significant |
| Wanton | immoral, lewd |
| Zeal | enthusiasm, fervor |
| Wholly | In whole or complete menner |
| Mercurial | Quick a changeable in thinking |
| Crestfallen | Discouraged and depressed |
| simonized | To polish with wax |
| Pompous | Characterized by excessive self-esteem, pretentious |
| Incipient | Beginning to exist or appear |
| Adonis | Very handsome young man |
| Darn | To mend, by weaving a thread or yarn across a hole |
| Laconic | using few words, to the point |
| Trepidation | 1. State of alarm or dread 2. an involuntary trembling or quivering |
| Valise | A small piece of hand luggage |
| stolid | Having or revealing little emotion or responsiveness |
| Caliber | degree of worth |
| audacity | Bold or rude neglects of limits that are based on good manners |
| Philandering | Engaging in many love affairs |
| Remiss | Neglecting |
| Chippy | a female prostitute |
| Elegiac(al) | Expressing sorrow |
| Carte Blanche | unlimited authority |
| Raucous | Rough sounding and harsh |
| Sotto Voce | in Soft tones |
| Cliche | a trite or overused expression or idea |
| gilt-edged | Of highest quality or value |
| imbue | to fill or permeate |
| Adaptable | willing to conform or to adjust |
| appreciate | to increase in value |
| atheist | one who dose not believe in god |
| boisterous | rowdy, rough |
| bourgeois | a person with the traits or viewpoints of the middle class |
| complex- | -complicated |
| conceit | excessively high opinion of one's own worth |
| disciple | a follower of a teacher or philosophy |
| exhaust | to use up, drain |
| homely | plain or unattractive in appearance |
| humility | the quality or state of being humble in spirit |
| Inane | lacking significance |
| innumerable | very many |
| monotony | sameness |
| muted | toned down or silenced |
| mutinous | rebellious, unruly |
| nonchalance | indifferent, showing little interest |
| pacifistic | opposed to war or use of force |
| porous | something that permits the passage of a liquid through pores |
| premature | occurring or existing earlier than what is normal |
| reciprocal | mutual, interacting |
| repulse | to repel or to rebuff |
| rile | to make angry |
| scrupulous | very principled, very careful and conscientious |
| spiritual | concerned with the soul of god |
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