Hathaway Vocab 3
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31 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 odious | (adj) exciting or deserving hatred or repugnance |
| protent | (n) something that foreshadows a coming event |
| skulk | (intran v) to move stealthy or furtive* manner |
| furtive* | attempting to avoid notice or attention |
| apathy | (n) lack or interest or concern |
| arbitrary | (adj) depending on individual discretion (as of judge) and not fixed by law |
| concede | (v) to accept as true, valid, or accurate; to acknowledge grudging or hesitantly |
| contrite | (adj) grieving and penitent for sin or shortcoming |
| impede | (v) to interfere with the slow progress of |
| mercurial | (adj) characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood |
| rapt | (adj) transported with emotion; enraptured* wholly absorbed; engrossed |
| enraptured* | give intense pleasure or joy to |
| undermine | (v) to subvert or weaken insidiously* or secretly |
| insidiously* | proceeding in a gradual subtle way, but with harmful effects |
| avarice | (n) excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain; greediness |
| consummate | (adj) extremely skilled and accomplished |
| duplicity | (n) contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action; especially the belying* of one's true intentions by deceptive words or action |
| belying* | fail to give a true notion or impression of |
| impregnable | (adj) incapable of being taken by assult; unconquerable |
| ostentatious | (adj) marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious* display |
| pretentious* | attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc. than is actually possessed |
| circumspect | (adj) careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences; prudent |
| ephemeral | (adj) lasting a very short time |
| laconic | (adj) using or involving the use of a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| precarious | (adj) characterized by a lack of security or stability that threatens with danger |
| transgress | (v) to go beyond limits set or prescribed by; violate |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered |
| vie | (v) to strive for superiority |
| wanton | (adj) lewd, bawdy; merciless, inhumane; having no just foundation or provocation*; malicious |
| provocation* | action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately |
| cryptic | (adj) having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning |
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