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Term Definition
Bilious Irritable, Cranky, Unpleasant
Consecrate to make or declare sacred; to admit or ordain to a sacred office
Noxious njurious to physical or mental health
Aversion a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance,
Execrations A curse
Sequestered To cause to withdraw into seclusion
Refectory a communal dining-hall
Slatternly slutty and untidy
Forebearance olerance and restraint in the face of provocation; patience
Assiduity onstant or close application or effort; diligence
Truculent fierce; cruel; savagely brutal
Creed any system or codification of belief or of opinion
Mortify to humiliate or shame
Ardently intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic; zealous
Propriety appropriateness to the purpose or circumstances; suitability
Consumption tuberculosis
Ostensible apparent, evident, or conspicuous
Battlements A notched parapet built on top of a wall, with alternating merlons and crenels for decoration or defense
Preternatural out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal
Wraith a visible spirit
Embowered To enclose in
Puerile childishly foolish; immature or trivial
Impediment obstruction; hindrance; obstacle
Virile characterized by a vigorous, masculine spirit
Conjugal of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations
Augmenting o make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent,
Alderman a member of a municipal legislative body
Begot produce as an effect
Chastity Virginity
Choler Anger; irritability
Covert a covering; cover
Disparagements something that derogates or casts in a bad light
Gall bitterness of spirit
Heretics A person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
Inconstant Fickle; faithless
Marred to disfigure, deface, or scar
Pernicious causing insidious harm or ruin
Portly rather heavy or fat; stout
Prodigious extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force
Prolixity long and wordy
Propagate to reproduce
Rapier double edged sword
Transgression A violation of a law, command, or duty
Wherefore why
Wits the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception

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Created May 21, 2007
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Vocab for 9th grade english exam.

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  1. BiliousIrritable, Cranky, Unpleasant - 7 misses
  2. Assiduityonstant or close application or effort; diligence - 5 misses
  3. Consecrateto make or declare sacred; to admit or ordain to a sacred office - 4 misses
  4. Truculentfierce; cruel; savagely brutal - 4 misses
  5. Ostensibleapparent, evident, or conspicuous - 4 misses
  6. Augmentingo make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, - 4 misses
  7. Perniciouscausing insidious harm or ruin - 4 misses