Mrs. Camp 2nd sem. vocab #1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ablution | a cleansing with water and/or other liquid, especially as religious ritual |
| Acrid | harsh, acidic |
| Adage | a proverb, wise saying |
| Agrarian | related to farming and land |
| Ague | a malarial fever characterized of drastic changes of hot and cold body temperature |
| Boor | A rude person; someone who is unrefined |
| Bucolic | rural or rustic in nature; country-life |
| Cabal | a small group of people who plan a secret plot, especially political |
| Cajole | to wheedle, coax, or persuade someone to do something |
| Canard | a false story with the intention of misleading or doing harm |
| Capacious (adj) | spacious, roomy, able to hold on (rhymes with spacious) |
| Carapace (noun) | a protective covering; shell |
| Cavort (v) | To strut, frolic, or prance |
| Chutzpah (n) | brazen, audacious behavior that is admired, but sometimes rude. Gutsy. |
| Consternation (n) | A feeling of anxiety, shock of confusion. A state of dismay. |
| Dearth (n) | scarcity; lack |
| Dichotomy (n) | division into two parts that are usually contradictory (di=two) |
| Diurinal (adj) | occuring everyday |
| Ebullient (adj) | boiling, bubbling with excitement |
| Egregious | flagrant; extremely bad |
| Enigma (n) | A mystery of a puzzle |
| Entice (v) | to lure, attract; to tempt in a pleasing fashion |
| Explicate (v) | to explain in detail; to make clear or explain completely |
| Filial (adj) | having the relationship of a child to a parent |
| Fracas (n) | noisy quarrel, brawl (rhymes with racus) |
| Hirsute (adj) | covered with hair, shaggy (kind of sounds like hair suit) |
| impecunious (adj) | poor, having little money or lacking funds; penniless |
| Itinerant (adj) | moving from place to place |
| Kismet (n) | fate |
| Laconic (adj) | brief, using few words |
| Macerate (v) | To dissolve in water |
| Mendicant (n) | A street beggar |
| Meritorious (adj) | deserving praise |
| Moniker (n) | nickname |
| Mores (n) | customary |
| Ossify (v) | to fossilize |
| Peripatetic (adj) | wandering |
| Philippic (n) | Verbal denunciation characterized by harsh, insulting language; A tirade |
| Polemic (adj) | A controversial argument against a controversial issue |
| Porcine (adj) | resembling a pig |
| Quotidian (adj) | commonplace |
| Rancor (n) | a bitter resentment |
| Rapacious (adj) | greedy |
| Recidivism (n) | a tendency to return to criminal ways |
| Resurget (adj) | able to rise after defeat |
| Ribald (adj) | rude |
| Salient (adj) | regularly attracting notice |
| Salubrious (adj) | favorable to promoting or contribution to good health |
| Sectarian (adj) | bigoted of narrow-minded |
| Sophistry (n) | unsound or misleading but clever argument |
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