Vocab 1 (Mrs. Camp)
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Abase (v) |  to degrade, to humiliate |
| Aberrant (adj) | straying from the correct or normal way |
| Angst (n) | strong anxiety and unhappiness; a feeling of dread |
| Brazen (adj) | bold, shameless; impudent |
| Chasm (n) | a deep opening; a gorge |
| Circumscribe (v) | to set the limits; to restrict |
| Digress (v) | to stray from the topic |
| Draconian (adj) | hard, severe, cruel |
| Fickle (adj) | not loyal or consistent |
| Grapple (v) | to seize firmly or hold onto something, wrestle |
| Guise (n) | outward appearance, semblance; false appearance |
| Haphazard (adj) | lacking order or purpose; not planned; random |
| Imminent (adj) | just about to happen |
| Ingenue (n) | a guileless unsophisticated person |
| Intrepid (adj) | fearless; bold |
| Juxtapose (v) | to place side by side |
| Lackadaisical (adj) | lacking energy and vitality; languid |
| Loquacious (adj) | overly talkative |
| Magnanimous (adj) | generous; noble in spirit |
| Mediocre (adj) | unimpressive, ordinary, average, passable |
| Mollycoddle (v) | to pamper, to spoil someone with kind treatment, overindulge |
| Nostalgia (n) | remembrance, longing for the past, homesickness |
| Obstreperous (adj) | not submitting to discipline or control; boisterous; vociferous |
| Ostracize (v) | to exclude from a group; to shun |
| Palpable (adj) | capable of being touched or felt |
| Propensity (n) | a natural inclination or tendency; a predilection, preference |
| Querulous (adj) | complaining, grumbling, whining, disagreeable |
| Quixotic (adj) | idealistic and totally impractical |
| Rebuke (v) | take to task, scold, reprimand |
| Relegate (v) | assign to an inferior position, place, exile |
| Rescind (v) | to take back or make invalid; revoke |
| Ruminate (v) | to ponder, to reflect upon |
| Simper (v) | smirk; giggle; snicker; smile foolishly |
| Soporific (adj) | tending to cause sleep; inducing sleep |
| Stratagem (n) | a plan or trick to achieve something; a ruse |
| Sundry (adj) | various; several; miscellaneous |
| Sybarite (n) | a person devoted to luxury and pleasure |
| Tangential (adj) | not especially relevant: only slightly related to the matter at hand |
| Tedium (n) | the condition of being dull or wearisome; monotony; boredom |
| Tempestuous (adj) | marked by unrest, disturbance or stormy turbulence |
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