WW 5&6
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39 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accolade | award of merit |
| antipathy | a feeling of intense dislike |
| carmine | red |
| coalesce | To come together |
| dissimulate | hide (feelings) from other people |
| egotism | having too high an opinion of oneself |
| erupt | burst |
| eruption | skin rash |
| felicitous | pleasingly appropriate |
| felicitous | delightful |
| inflect | change the pitch of or form of |
| jurist | expert on law |
| meanders | winds back and forth; saunter |
| nemesis | just punishment |
| novitiate | probationary period in a religious order; novice |
| outmoded | make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete |
| protocol | diplomatic etiquette |
| protocol | original draft of a document |
| specious | plausible, but false |
| vernacular | everyday speech |
| apoplectic | paralyzed from a burst blood vessel in the brain |
| circumspect | careful, cautious |
| denude | strip everything from |
| dote | be overly fond |
| dotage | foolish old age |
| emote | to dramatically express emotions |
| exacerbate | worsen |
| fey | playful |
| fey | of impending death |
| insatiable | always wanting more |
| laity | religious group apart from its clergy |
| mordant | harsh |
| mordant | chemical that makes a dye permanent |
| neuter | neither male nor female |
| opprobrium | disgrace |
| precipitous | very steep |
| reinstate | restore to a former position |
| throes | violent anguish |
| vicissitudes | changes of fortune |
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