Advanced Vocab. Group 4
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Occitan | English |
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| inimitable |  adj. one of a kind; peerlessSynonyms: incomparable, only, matchless, nonpareil, peerless, unequaled (or unequalled), unexampled, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled (or unrivalled), unsurpassable, unsurpassed Ex. an inimitable solo violin preformer |
| iniquity | n. gross injustice; wickedness Synonyms: corruption, debauchery, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness, vice, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, profligacy, sin Antonyms: morality, virtue |
| innervate | v. to energize, to supply with nerves; to embolden; to energize |
| inscrutable | adj. incapable of being discovered or understood, incomprehensible |
| insensible | adj. unconscious; unresponsive; unaffected; numb |
| insouciant | adj. unconcerned; carefree; heedless, nonchalance |
| insular | adj. parochial (confined or restricted as if within the borders of a parish : limited in range or scope (as to a narrow area or region) : provincial, narrow); narrow-minded Synonyms: illiberal, insular, Lilliputian, little, narrow-minded, narrow, petty, picayune, provincial, sectarian, small, small-minded Antonyms: broad-minded, catholic, cosmopolitan, liberal, open, open-minded, receptive, tolerant |
| interdict | v. to prohibit; to forbid; to ban; to halt, a prohibitory decree Ex. the church's controversial interdict against the use of birth control devices Synonyms: ban, embargo, prohibition, interdiction, proscription, veto Antonyms: prescription |
| inveigh | v. to attack verbally; to denounce; to deprecate |
| inveterate | adj. deep-rooted; ingrained; habitual |
| involute | adj. intricate; complex; convuluted |
| itinerate | adj. to travel from place to place; to peregrinate |
| jejune | adj. vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile (juvenile 2: childish, silly <puerile remarks>) Synonyms: arid, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, boring, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying Antonyms: absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting |
| jibe | v. to agree; to be in accord |
| jocose, jocular | adj. humorous; gay; blithe |
| labile | adj. readily open to change; unstable |
| lachrymose | adj. causing tears; tearful, weepy |
| lambasted | v. to censure; to excoriate; to berate (to scold or condemn vehemently and at length) Synonyms: baste, bawl out, berate, call down, castigate, chastise, chew out, dress down, flay, hammer, jaw, keelhaul, scold (or lambast), lecture, rag, rail (at or against), rant (at), rate, ream (out), rebuke, reprimand, reproach, score, tongue-lash, upbraid |
| lassitude | adj. listessness; languor; weariness |
| libertine | n. someone unrestrained by morality or convention |
| limn | v. to draw; to outline in detail; to delineate; to describe |
| limpid | adj. transparent; serene; clear; untroubled; pellucid |
| lubricious | adj. lewd (obsolete: evil, wicked 2 a: sexually unchaste or licentious); wanton; greasy; slippery |
| luculent | adj. easily understoon; lucid; clear |
| scrutable | Capable of being deciphered:comprehensible Synonyms: accessible, apprehensible, coherent, comprehendible, comprehensible, fathomable, graspable, legible, intelligible, understandable Antonyms: incoherent, incomprehensible, inscrutable, insensible |
| nonchalant | adj. having an air of easy unconcern or indifference Synonyms: apathy, casualness, commonplace, disinterestedness, disregard, incuriosity, incuriousness, insouciance, indifference, torpor, unconcern Antonyms: concern, interest, regard |
| lewd | 1 obsolete: evil, wicked 2 a: sexually unchaste or licentious b: obscene, vulgar Synonyms: bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, gutter, impure, indecent, lascivious, obscene, locker-room, nasty, pornographic, porny, profane, raunchy, ribald, smutty, stag, trashy, unprintable, vulgar, wanton, X-rated Antonyms: clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene, wholesome |
| pellucid | adj. transparent easy to understand; limpid 1: admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion <a pellucid stream> 2: reflecting light evenly from all surfaces 3: easy to understand |
| macerate | adj. to waste away, to soften or wear away by excessive fasting or by excessive steeping Ex. <garnished with cherries that had been macerated in liqueur> |
| maculate | adj. marked with spots or blotches; besmirched; impure Ant. immaculate |
| malinger | v. to feign illness so as to avoid work; to avoid |
| maunder | v. to digress; to meander; to stray from the topic or path |
| mellifluous | adj. sweetly flowing, usually used to describe use of words |
| mendicant | n. begger, supplicant |
| meretricious | adj. cheap; gaudy; tawdry; flashy; showy 1: of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution <meretricious relationships> 2 a: tawdrily and falsely attractive <the paradise they found was a piece of meretricious trash — Carolyn See> b: superficially significant : pretentious <scholarly names to provide fig-leaves of respectability for meretricious but stylish books — Times Literary Supplement> |
| metamorphose | v. to transform; to change utterly |
| mettle | n. strength of spirit; courage; stamina |
| mettlesome | adj. courageous; high-spirited |
| militate | v. to have weight; to bear on; to argue (against), to operate against; work against |
| minatory | adj. menacing; threatening |
| misogynist | n. one who hates women/females |
| multifarious | adj. having great variety; numerous and diverse |
| nadir | n. The lowest point; perigee |
| natty | adj. trimly neatneatly or smartly dressed; dapper; smart; Ex. natty dresser |
| nexus | n. a connection, tie or link |
| noisome | adj. offensive, especially to one's sense of smell; fetid |
| nonplused | adj. baffled; in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do |
| nostrum | n. panacea; cure-all, placebo; questionable remedy; palliative |
| nugatory | adj. trifling; in consequential |
| obloquy | n. abusively detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation; calumny |
| obstreperous | adj. noisy; loud |
| officious | adj. meddlesome; pushy in one's services |
| ossified | adj. tending to become ridgid; conventional; sterile and reactionary with age; literally, turned to bone |
| ostensible | adj. seeming; appearing as such; professed |
| overweening | presumptuously arrogant; supercilious; overbearing |
| palliate | v. to make something appear less serious; to gloss over |
| panegyric | n. formal praise; eulogy; encomium |
| paradigm | n. a model, example, or pattern; exemplar |
| pariah | n. an outcast; a rejected and depised person |
| parry | v. to block; to evade or ward off, as a blow |
| parsimonious | adj. cheap; miserly |
| partisan | adj/ n committed to a party; biasedd or prejudiced; supporter; adherent |
| paucity | n. scarcity; a lacking of |
| peccadillo | n. a slight offense; literally a minor sin |
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