Vocab 12
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amandaroma013 on April 7, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 aesthetic | pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty |
| defunct | no longer in existance; dead |
| discomfit | to frustrate, or thwart, of defeat, to confuse or embarrass |
| espouse | to take up and support; to become attached to; adopt, to marry |
| fetish | an object believed to have magical powers; an object for devotion |
| gregarious | living together in a herd or group. sociable, seeking the company of others |
| hapless | marked by a persistent absence of good luck |
| impeccable | faultless |
| importune | to trouble with demands, to beg for insistently |
| interpolate | to insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition |
| irreparable | incapable of being repaired or rectified |
| laconic | concise; using few words |
| languish | to become weak feeble or dull to be depressed or to suffer neglect |
| mendacious | given to lying or deception; untrue |
| nadir | the lowest point |
| omnipresent | present at all places at all times |
| perfunctory | done in a superficial or halfhearted manner; without interest or enthusiasm |
| plaintive | expressive of sorrow or woe |
| requite | to make suitable repayment as for kindness service or favor, to make retaliation for injury or wrong; to reciprocate |
| tantamount | equivalent, having the same meaning or value |
| fractiousness | quality of being troublesome, unruly, irritable and quarrelsome |
| divan | couch used as a bed |
| hors d' oeuvre | food |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal escape or evade |
| punctilious | concerned with the exact accordance with the details of codes or conventions; very careful |
| meretricious | falsely beautiful; relating to a prostitute |
| antecedents | ancesters |
| incarnation | the embodiment of a spirit or quality in an earthly form |
| dilatory | causing delay |
| pander | to provide gratification for others desires |
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