Vocab week 25 and 26
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50 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Accredited | officially authorized or recognized; provided with credentials |
| Brigand | (n.) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman |
| Capacious | (adj.) able to hold much, roomy |
| Clamber | climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble |
| Debase | to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate |
| Edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place (n.) |
| Epicure | (n) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) |
| Equable | (adj.) tranquil; of even calm temper; (of temperature) steady; uniform |
| Escarpment | (n) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge |
| Excoriate | (v) express strong disapproval of, tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading |
| Execration | (n) the object of cursing or detestation, an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group, hate coupled with disgust |
| Fastidious | (adj) giving and careful attention to detail, having complicated nutritional requirements |
| Fecund | capable of producing offspring or vegetation, intellectually productive |
| Foible | a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual |
| Forestall | prevent by taking action in advance |
| Gauntlet | to offer or accept a challenge |
| Germane | (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
| Goad | A long stick used to prod animals; something used to urge on; to prod or urge, as if with a pointed stick |
| Guttural | from the throat |
| Heretic | a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) |
| Impetuous | characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation |
| Impugn | (v.) to call into question; to attack as false |
| Inexorable | not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course |
| Ingenuous | naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated; candid |
| Inveigle | influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering |
| Lament | express grief verbally |
| Lumber (verb) | to move heavily and clumsily |
| Mutable | capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature |
| Nomenclature | technical names or naming system in an art or science |
| Odium | hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
| Ossify | to change into bone; to become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern |
| Palatable | agreeable to the taste or one's sensibilities; suitable for consumption |
| Pelt (verb) | to strike repeatedly |
| Perplex | to puzzle, confuse, or bewilder |
| Petulant | (adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset |
| Plebeian | common, vulgar; belonging to the lower class; a common person, member of the lower class |
| Propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| Proximity | nearness, closeness |
| Punitive | (adj) inflicting punishment |
| Quibble | to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections; a petty objection |
| Recidivism | habitual relapse into crime |
| Reparation | paying back; making amends; compensation |
| Repress | To restrain; to keep or put down |
| Sadistic | deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another |
| Spurn | thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject |
| Surge | (v.) to have a heavy, violent, swelling motion (like waves); (n.) a powerful forward rush |
| Temerarious | presumptuously daring |
| Touchstone | a basis for comparison |
| Vivisection | surgery on living animals; medical research that involves cutting into living animals to study organs, tissues, or diseases |
| wane | a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) |
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