Vocab List #11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 fiscal | (adj.) financial or having to do with the public treasury or revenues |
| inordinate | (adj.) lacking restraint; immoderate |
| condone | (verb) to forgive, pardon, or overlook an offense |
| heinous | (adj.) outrageously evil or wicked; abominable |
| appellation | (noun) a name or title that describes or identifies a person |
| double entendre | (noun) a term with two meanings |
| pariah | (noun) anyone despised or rejected by others; an outcast |
| presumptuous | (adj.) too bold or forward; showing overconfidence or arrogance |
| palpable | (adj.) something that can be touched; tangible; clear to the mind |
| improvident | (adj.) not providing for the future; thriftless; rash; incautious |
| capricious | (adj.) impulsive in thinking or acting; erratic |
| incipient | (adj.) just beginning to exist or appear |
| arduous | (adj.) demanding great effort or labor; difficult |
| harbinger | (noun) precursor or forerunner |
| feign | (verb) to pretend; to imitate so as to deceive |
| coiffure | (noun) a style of arranging hair |
| cohort | (noun) a group or company; companion or associate |
| incantation | (noun) that chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power |
| abate | (verb) to make less in amount, degree, force, etc.; to deduct |
| perdition | (noun) complete and irreparable loss; ruin; the loss of the soul or of hope for salvation; damnation, hell |
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