Unit 9 Vocab Book F
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Mario-bortoluzzi on February 7, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abate | (v.) to reduce in amount, degree, to lessen or diminish |
| avarice | (n.) a greedy desire, particularly for wealth, desire for greed |
| astute | (adj.) of keen penetration or discernment, clever, cunning, showing practical wisdom |
| adulation | (n.) to show excessive admiration or devotion to, idolization |
| anathema | (n.) a person or thing that is intensely disliked, detested or loathed |
| culpable | (adj.) deserving blame, worthy of condemnation |
| dilatory | (adj.) tending to delay or proscrastinate, slow tardy, stalling |
| egregious | (adj.) conspicuous, standing out from the mass, blatant |
| equivocate | (v.) to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation, to be mislead or confused |
| evanescent | (adj.) vanishing, soon passing away, transient |
| irresolute | (adj.) unable to make up one's mind; hesitating, indecisive |
| nebulous | (adj.) cloudlike, resembling a cloud,vague, confused, unclear |
| novice | (n.) one who is a beginner at one activity, apprentice |
| penury | (n.) extremely poverty, barrenness, insufficiency |
| pretentious | (adj.) done for show, striving to make an impression; claiming merit; ambitious |
| recapitulate | (v.) to review a series of facts, sum up, summarize |
| resuscitate | (v.) to revive, bring back to existence, revitalize |
| slovenly | (adj.) untidy, dirty, careless, unkept |
| supposition | (n.) something that is assumed or taken for granted for without conclusive evidence |
| torpid | (adj.) inactive, sluggish, dull, sluggish |
| envisage | (v.) to imagine, to conceive of |
| visage | (n.) face, facial expression |
| vis-a-vis | (prep.) face-to-face with; in relation to |
| diaphanous | (adj.) lightweight and transparent |
| epiphany | (n.) a moment of great insight; revelation |
| sycophant | (n.) a person who flatters; a "yes-mam" |
| perspicacious | (adj.) wise, insightful, acutely intelligent |
| retrospective | (adj.) looking backward over a period of time |
| introspective | (adj.) contemplating one's own thoughts and feelings |
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