Unit 5 vocab
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 mendacious | ADJ telling lies (esp. habitually), dishonest |
| miscreant | N a vicious or depraved person,villain, evil person |
| modicum | N a moderate or small amount |
| onerous | ADJ burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome, causing hardship |
| prosaic | ADJ commonplace or dull, matter-of-fact or unimaginative |
| querulous | ADJ full of complaints, complaining, inclined to find fault |
| recalcitrant | ADJ resisting authority or control, not obedient or compliant, hard to deal with |
| remonstrate | V to say or plead in protest, objection |
| retinue | N a body of assistants, servants tending an important personage |
| satiety | N the state of having enough or more than enough |
| secular | ADJ not pertaining to religion, pertaining to worldly things |
| stolid | ADJ not easily stirred or moved mentally, unemotional |
| subterfuge | N an artiface or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, etc |
| sylvan | ADJ of, or pertaining to, or inhabiting the woods |
| truculent | ADJ fierce, cruel, savagely brutal |
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