Vocabulary 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 peregrination | To journey or travel from place to place, especially on foot. To travel through or over; traverse |
| gaffe | 1. A social blunder; faux pas. 2. A clumsy social error. 3. A blatant mistake or misjudgment. 4. Socially awkward or tactless act. |
| virago | 1: a loud voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew. 2: a woman of great stature, strength, and courage |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; being or seeming to be everywhere at once; omnipresent. |
| flippant | disrespectful levity; frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; speaking with ease and rapidity; talkative; voluble; characterized by levity. |
| excoriate | 1. To denounce or berate severely, flay severely; 2. To remove or strip off skin. |
| bilateral | 1. pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like: |
| cajole | to persuade by flattery or promises; wheedle; coax; to urge with gentle, repeated appeals |
| erstwhile | ] in the past; at a former time; belonging to a previous time; former. |
| saturnine | 1. Sluggish in temperament, gloomy, taciturn; 2. Suffering from lead poisoning, as a person; 3. Melancholy or sullen in disposition. |
| fortnight | period of 14 days: two weeks |
| subrogate | to put in the place of another; especially: to substitute (as a second creditor) for another with regard to a legal right or claim. |
| nostrum | a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine; a scheme, theory, device |
| ignominy | 1. deep personal dishonor or humiliation; disgrace; 2. disgraceful or dishonorable conduct. |
| paragon | a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence. |
| preceptor | an instructor; teacher; tutor. 2. the head of a school. 3. the head of a preceptory |
| platitude | A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. Lack of originality; trite |
| odious | 1. arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure; deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable. 2. highly offensive; repugnant |
| congruence | 1. the quality or state of agreeing of corresponding; agreement, harmony 2. Mathematics. a relationship between two numbers indicating that the numbers give the same remainder when divided by some given number. |
| mercurial | 1. changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature. 2. animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted |
| repine | to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain. To yearn after something. |
| nebulous | 1. cloudy, misty, or hazy. 2. lacking definite forms or limits; vague |
| Elysium | any place or state of perfect happiness; paradise. Also called Elysian Fields, from the Greek, the abode of the blessed after death. |
| amenable | 1. ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable; 2. liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible. |
| expiate | 1. to extinguish the guilt incurred by; to make amends for. 2. (Obs.) to put an end to. |
| prosaic | 1. commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind. 2. of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry. |
| induce | to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind |
| circumlocution | a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; evasion in speech or writing; rambling, meandering. |
| dereliction | deliberate or conscious neglect; willful neglect, as of a duty or principle. 2. the act of abandoning; abandonment |
| draconian | extremely cruel or severe; rigorous: draconian budget cuts. 2. characteristic of Draco or his code of laws |
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