TKAM Vocab
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doodoomarang on April 11, 2009
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70 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
to make milder or less severe | assuaged |
a pharmacist | apothecary |
religious;devotion | piety |
silent in expression or manner | taciturn |
lacking discretion;incautious;rash;unwise | imprudent |
collection of your works | repertoire |
without liveliness or spirit; dull | vapid |
evil;harmful;injurious | malevolent |
gruesome; grisly | morbid |
coming at night | nocturnal |
a tendency to think favorably of something in particular | predilection |
an automobile | flivver |
an officer | beadle |
confused | nebulous |
not legally permitted | illicitly |
a temporary stay | sojourn |
a wicked act; sin | iniquities |
to cause | wrought |
understood without being openly expressed | tacit |
warmth; friendliness | cordiality |
to commit | perpetrated |
confusion | perplexity |
corresponding in function; similar | analogous |
inherited trait that you are good for | innate |
honest; straight-forward; frank | guilelessness |
noisy | obstreperous |
abusive language | invective |
strongly emotional, intense, or passionate | vehemently |
out of style; old fashioned | passe |
furious | livid |
argument | premise |
an offense | umbrage |
moral virtue | rectitude |
to move with a wavelike motion | undulate |
sticky or thick | viscous |
argument | altercation |
evil | denunciation |
strict | austere |
frightening | formidable |
indirectly | obliquely |
near-sighted | myopic |
to think about carefully | pondered |
without mistakes | infallible |
threatening | ominous |
respectful | venerable |
direct | succinct |
uselessness | futility |
crowd of people | aggregation |
to confess | conceded |
to explain | elucidate |
origin; native | indigenous |
bitter in speech | acrimonious |
nice; kindly | benignly |
to erase | expunge |
not softened | unmitigated |
boldness | temerity |
wild | feral |
solid position; not easily moved | stolidly |
forced to | duress |
filth | squalor |
hissing | sibilant |
one who withdraws from society | recluse |
not authentic | spurious |
little things that make you you | eccentricities |
stolen | purloined |
wasted | squandered |
quick and short | staccato |
unrestricted | untrammeled |
harshly bright | garishly |
to agree without protest | acquiescence |
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