Vocab Unit 8
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 bellicose | quarrelsome, combative, belligerent, pugnacious |
| echelon | a step, rank, level or grade in a series or hierarchy |
| fatuous | foolish or silly in a self-satisfied way |
| flabbergasted | overwhelmed with surprise, shock or amazement; dumbfounded |
| incipient | beginning to exist or appear; in an early stage |
| irrefutable | impossible to disprove; beyond argument |
| irrevocable | impossible to undo or take back; unalterable |
| lackadaisical | lacking interest or zest; half-hearted, indifferent |
| mélange | mixture, usually of things that don't normally go together |
| paucity | smallness in amount; scarcity, dearth |
| portend | to give warning, foretell, indicate in advance |
| prepossessing | tending to create a favorable impression |
| quintessential | ultimate, essential, pure; perfectly representative |
| recant | to formally withdraw or take back a statement or belief |
| saturnine | gloomy, cold, sluggish, sullen |
| schwa | unstressed vowel sound represented by ∂ can made by any vowel |
| surmise | to guess or conclude based on scanty evidence |
| uxorious | excessively fond or submissive toward a wife |
| viscous | sticky, gummy, gooey; not running or flowing |
| vitiate | to impair, spoil, make faulty |
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