Vocab List II
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crazymaalu96 on November 8, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abdicate | (v) to cast off; to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| antipathy | (n) natural aversion or dislike : distaste |
| beguile | (v) to lead by deception |
| chagrin | (n) anxiety or uneasiness caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| desecrate | (v) to violate the sanctity of ; to treat disrespectfully, irreverently or outrageously |
| enigma | (n) something hard to understand or explain |
| immerse | (v) to engross, absorb |
| mollify | (v) to soothe in temper or disposition |
| paradigm | (n) an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype |
| reiterate | (v) to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| anachronism | (n) a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present |
| boor | (n) a rude or insensitive person |
| digress | (v) to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument |
| flagrant | (adj) conspicuously offensive so obviously inconsistent with what is right or proper as to appear to be a flouting of law or morality |
| inundate | (v) to overwhelm |
| obliterate | (v) to remove from existence : destroy utterly all trace, indication, or significance of |
| revelry | (n) noisy partying or merrymaking |
| surmise | (v) to imagine or infer on incomplete evidence |
| transient | (adj) passing especially quickly into and out of existence |
| vex | (v) to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to |
| aversion | (n) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away |
| disquietude | (adj) uneasiness; anxiety |
| archetype | (n) an original model or pattern |
| flouting | (v) treating with disregard |
| incongruous | (adj) out of place |
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