Quizlet On-the-go vocabulary

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  1. abrogate: revoke formally
  2. academic: an educator who works at a college or university
  3. adjudicate: to settle judicially
  4. aphorism: a short pithy instructive saying
  5. approbation: official recognition or approval
  6. argot: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
  7. aspergillum: vessel for sprinkling holy water
  8. beatification: the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy
  9. belie: represent falsely
  10. bellicose: warlike
  11. cep: brown edible mushroom
  12. contrived: showing effects of planning or manipulation
  13. Corinthian: a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
  14. crenate: having a margin with rounded scallops
  15. diabolical: extremely evil or cruel
  16. didactic: instructive (especially excessively)
  17. ephemeral: enduring a very short time
  18. estoppel: a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled
  19. factotum: a person employed to do all kinds of work.
  20. flippant: lacking proper seriousness
  21. garrulous: full of trivial conversation
  22. harbinger: an indication of the approach of something or someone
  23. hedonist: someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
  24. iconoclastic: characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions
  25. immolate: offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction
  26. immured: imprisoned or confined
  27. indagate: to search out; to investigate
  28. indubitably: in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted
  29. internecine: characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides
  30. laconic: brief and to the point
  31. macabre: shockingly repellent
  32. martinet: A strict disciplinarian
  33. Merovingian: a Frankish dynasty founded by Clovis I that reigned in Gaul and Germany from about 500 to 750
  34. modicum: a small or moderate or token amount
  35. paucity: an insufficient quantity or number
  36. pique: a sudden outburst of anger
  37. piratical: characteristic of pirates
  38. platonic: free from physical desire
  39. precipitate: bring about abruptly
  40. prevaricate: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
  41. quixotic: not sensible about practical matters
  42. reticence: the trait of being uncommunicative
  43. riposte: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
  44. salubrious: promoting health
  45. sanguine: inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
  46. simulacrum: an insubstantial or vague semblance
  47. solipsism: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
  48. sycophant: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
  49. symptomatic: characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease
  50. taciturn: habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  51. trepanation: the act of surgically cutting a round hole.
  52. vindictive: showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt
  53. ziggurat: a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians