The Fifth Child Vocabulary Part One
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Absolve | to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death. |
| Abstemiousness | sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. |
| Annul | to make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate: to annul a marriage. |
| Borzoi | any of a breed of tall, slender dogs having long, silky hair, raised originally in Russia for hunting wolves. |
| Capacious | capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin. |
| Chimera | a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. |
| Commodious | spacious and convenient; roomy: a commodious apartment. |
| Dolefully | sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face. |
| Facetious | lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person. |
| Fastidiousness | excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater. |
| Histrionic | deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech. |
| Jocular | given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars. |
| Judiciously | using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic: judicious use of one's money. |
| Matily | in a congenial manner |
| Obsolescent | becoming obsolete; passing out of use, as a word: an obsolescent term. |
| Obstinacy | unyielding or stubborn adherence to one's purpose, opinion, etc |
| Ornate | elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so |
| Parsimony | extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess |
| Peregrination | travel from one place to another, esp. on foot |
| Progenitive | capable of having offspring; reproductive. |
| Reticent | disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved. |
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