Analog 2-3 Trimester 2 Harrington
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abrogate | (v) to repeal, to cancel; to do away with. |
| abstinent | (adj) practicing abstinence or refraining from something like food or drink |
| accolade | (n) a ceremony to mark the recognition of special merit; a mark of acknowledgment like a reward |
| acronym | (n) a word formed from the first letters of other words: |
| adulate | (v) to flatter |
| aesthetic | (adj) sensitive to beauty |
| agnostic | (n) a person who thinks it is impossible to know whether there is a God or a future life |
| altruism | (n) concern for the welfare of others |
| amorphous | (adj) shapeless |
| anachronism | (n) something occurring in the wrong time |
| artisan | (n) a skilled craftsperson |
| askew | (adj) not symmetrical, awry; not straight |
| belligerent | (adj) hostile |
| bumptious | (adj) arrogant; pushy |
| cantankerous | (adj) contentious, perverse, grouchy |
| cauldron | (n) a large kettle |
| charlatan | (n) an imposter, a fraud or pretender |
| churlish | (adj) surly, boorish, miserly, unmannerly |
| clement | (adj) lenient, merciful, mild usually refers to the weather |
| construe | (v) to understand or explain the sense or orientation of; interpret |
| contrite | (adj) remorseful |
| convivial | (adj) sociable, jovial |
| corsair | (n) a privateer, a pirate; a pirate ship |
| coterie | (n) a group which gathers for social purposes; social circle, clique |
| crone | (n) a withered old woman |
| crypt | (n) an underground chamber, vault serving as burial place |
| diaphanous | (adj) delicate, transparent |
| disconcerting | (adj) upsetting, frustrating |
| dissonance | (n) a harsh or unpleasant sound or combination of sounds; lack of agreement, discord |
| docile | (adj) teachable, tractable |
| dolt | (n) a stupid, slow-witted person |
| denouement | (n) the outcome of a plot in a drama or story |
| dotard | (n) a person in his or her dotage or second childhood; a senile person |
| elucidate | (v) to make clear, to explain |
| emporium | (n) a trading center, a large store, a market place |
| entourage | (n) surroundings, environment; a group of attendants |
| estrange | (v) to remove; to turn away, to alienate |
| fervent | (adj) hot, burning, ardent |
| fiscal | (adj) having to do with public money, financial |
| florid | (adj) rosy, ruddy, highly colored |
| fractious | (adj) unruly, rebellious, peevish, fretful |
| gossamer | (n) a thin, filmy cloth (adj) light, thin, airy |
| gregarious | (adj) fond of company, sociable; living in herds or flocks |
| gustatory | (adj) pertaining to the sense of taste |
| hamlet | (n) a small group of houses in the country; in capitalized form, Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark |
| hedonism | (n) the doctrine that pleasure is the principal good and should be the aim of action |
| heinous | (adj) extremely wicked, abominable |
| homonym | (n) a word with the same pronunciation as another but with a different meaning and usually different spelling: bore and boar |
| hoyden | (n) a boisterous girl, a tomboy; (adj) tomboyish |
| imbibe | (v) to drink, to absorb |
| immolate | (v) to offer or kill, as a sacrifice |
| indigence | (n) poverty, neediness |
| ingenuous | (adj) showing innocent or childlike simplicity, naïve |
| inundate | (v) to overflow, to flood |
| insidious | (adj) plotting treacherously; crafty, wily, lying in wait |
| irascible | (adj) easily angered, quick tempered |
| lethargic | (adj) abnormally drowsy, dull, sluggish |
| litigation | (n) the process of carrying on a lawsuit |
| lugubrious | (adj) mournful, dismal |
| malign | (v) to defame, to speak evil of; (adj) malevolent |
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