Vocabulary 2
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jesskuhhlaine on September 6, 2011
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Guile | crafty of artful deception |
| Hackneyed | made commonplace or trite; stale |
| Hapless | unlucky; luckless; unfortunate |
| Iconoclast | a breaker or destroyer of images |
| Idyllic | charmingly simple or rustic |
| Ignominious | discreditable or humiliating |
| Jingoism | bellicose chauvinism |
| Juggernaut | any large, overpowering, destructive force or object |
| Juxtapose | to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
| Laconic | using few words, concise |
| Laggard | lingerer, loiterer |
| Lambaste | to reprimand or berate harshly; censure; excoriate |
| Malaise | a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of disease |
| Matriculate | to enroll in college or university as a candidate for a degree |
| Mercurial | changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic |
| Neophyte | a beginner or novice |
| Nocturnal | active at night |
| Noxious | harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being |
| Oblique | not straight or direct |
| Obsequious | servilely compliant or deferential |
| Obtrusive | protruding; projecting |
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