English 2 H Vocab- SET 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 defamation | an attack on someone's good name, character, or reputation |
| conjure | to affect or influence by as if by an invocation or spell |
| prolific | producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive |
| pretense | behavior that aims to or actually deceives someone; pretending |
| iniquity | a great injustice or grossly immoral act |
| incorrigible | incapable of reform |
| posterity | a person's descendents |
| propitious | favorable; advantageous |
| arduous | difficult to do; strenuous, laborious |
| prodigious | great in amount, size, or extent; very impressive or amazing |
| adamant | very determined and not influenced by appeals to reconsider |
| calamity | a disastrous situation or event |
| vestige | a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present |
| languid | lacking in spirit or interest; listless, indifferent |
| affront | n. an offensive word, an insult v. to offend someone with words, to insult |
| plaintive | expressing melancholy or sorrow; mournful |
| assimilate | to absorb (groups of different cultures) into the main cultural body |
| beseech | to ask for earnestly; to implore, to beg |
| reverie | a dreamy, fanciful, or visionary notion or daydream |
| vindicate | to clear, as from accusation or suspicion |
| egregious | extraordinary in some bad way; outstanding for undesirable qualities |
| verisimilitude | the quality of looking or appearing true |
| banal | trite; overused |
| lugubrious | mournful, gloomy, dismal- esp. to an exaggerated degree |
| furtive | expressive in hidden motives; shifty, sly |
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