Quizlet February Definitions

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  1. anorectic: an appetite suppressant
  2. arabesque: Ornament or surface decoration with intricate curves and flowing lines based on plant forms.
  3. bivouacked: encamped or assembled in an unsheltered, improvised area (like a military encampment with tents)
  4. brusque: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less --- manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
  5. cannel: A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
  6. comeliest: bonny: very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a --- face"
  7. ennui: Boredom, or (pronounced "on-we," is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Those afflicted by temporary boredom may regard the affliction as a waste of time, but usually characterise boredom worse than just that.
  8. escarpment: a long cliff or steep slope, often caused by erosion
  9. evinced: Displayed clearly; revealed.
  10. execrable: deplorable: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
  11. fain: gladly: in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would --- do it"
  12. fracas: affray: noisy quarrel
  13. ignominiously: disgracefully: in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree; "his grades were disgracefully low"
  14. Imprimis: in the first place
  15. interment: burial: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
  16. inveterate: respectable, established, habitual
  17. meretricious: like or relating to a prostitute; "--- relationships" brassy: tastelessly showy; "a flashy car"; "garish colors"; gilded: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
  18. mordant: sarcastic
  19. nictating: blinking!
  20. nymph: (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden
  21. obstreperousness: noisily and stubbornly defiant
  22. orbicular: Rounded, with length and breadth about the same.
  23. palliative: A treatment that provides symptomatic relief but not a cure.
  24. paroxysm: a sudden uncontrollable attack; "a --- of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter"
  25. peripatetic: Walking or traveling about. Of or pertaining to Aristotle, or the Aristotelian school of philosophy, who taught philosophy while walking with his students in Athens
  26. Petra: an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
  27. piratical: like a pirate
  28. poltroon: characterized by complete cowardliness
  29. potentate: A --- is a person with potent, usually supreme, power, such as a monarch or a dictator. This term is often used to describe an ambassador performing negotiations on behalf of a large group.
  30. recondite: abstruse: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some ___ problem in historiography"
  31. redolent: redolent(p): (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous; "the hall was redolent of floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey"
  32. sanguine: confidently optimistic and cheerful
  33. sibilant: fricative: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
  34. simian: like an ape or monkey
  35. solipsism: A form of SCEPTICISM. This is the belief that nothing exists except my mind and the creations of my mind.
  36. supercilious: contentious, haughty, lordly, pretentious, arrogant
  37. surreptitious: cautious, secretive, quiet,
  38. torpor: a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep ___"
  39. upbraid: reproach: express criticism towards; "The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior"
  40. voluptas: Greek goddess of lust?
  41. vulpine: resembling the characteristic of a fox