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Gardner-Griffin English IIH Vocab List

Terms in this set (35)

cachinnate
to laugh loudly or immoderately
abstruse
difficult to comprehend; recondite (recondite - hidden from sight, concealed; difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend; of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure)
bon vivant
a person having cultivated, refined, and sociable tastes especially with respect to food or drink
putative
commonly accepted or supposed; assumed to exist or have existed
validate
to make legally valid, ratify; to grant official sanction to by marking; to confirm the validity of; also, to declare a person elected; to support or corroborate on a sound or authoritative basis; to recognize, establish, or illustrate the worthiness, or legitimacy of
satiety
the quality or state of being fed or gratified beyond capacity; surfeit, fullness; the revulsion or disgust caused by overindulgence or excess
torrid
parched with heat, especially of the sun; hot; giving off intense heat, scorching; ardent, passionate
pacify
to allay the anger or agitation of; soothe; to restore to a tranquil state; settle; to reduce to a submissive state; subdue
recalcitrant
obstinately defiant of authority or restraint; difficult to manage or operate, not responsive to treatment, resistant
hiatus
a break in or as if in a material object, gap; a gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ; an interruption in time or continuity; break, especially a period when something is suspended or interrupted; the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound
rash
marked by or proceeding from undue haste or lack of deliberation or caution
carp
to find fault or complain querulously
loquacious
full of excessive talk, wordy; given to fluent or excessive talk, garrulous
alleviate
relieve, lessen; to make (as suffering) more bearable; to partially remove or correct
emote
to given expression to emotion especially in acting
querulous
habitually complaining, fretful, whining
derring-do
daring action, daring
piquant
agreeably stimulating to the palate, especially spicy; engagingly provocative; having a lively arch charm
nebbish
a timid, meek, or ineffectual person
bedizen
to dress or adorn gaudily
gregarious
tending to associate with others of one's kind; social; marked by or indicating a liking for companionship, sociable; of or relating to a social group; growing in a cluster or a colony; living in contiguous nests but not truly forming a colony--esp. of wasps and bees
maledicton
curse, execration
vindicate
avenge, to free from allegation or blame; confirm, substantiate, to provide justification or defense for, justify; to protect from attack or encroachment, defend; to maintain a right to
argot
an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
kowtow
to show obsequious deference, fawn; to kneel and touch the forehead to ground in token of homage, worship, or deep respect
unabashed
not disconcerted, undisguised, unapologetic
obliterate
to remove from recognition or memory, to remove from existence; to make undecipherable by wiping out or covering up
notorious
generally known of and talked of, esp. widely and unfavorably known
spiel
a voluble line of often extravagant talk; speech delivered especially to sell or promote something
tub-thumper
a vociferous supporter (as of a cause)
oppugn
to fight against; to call in question
pippin
a crisp, tart apple having usually yellow or yellow-greenish skin strongly flushed with red and used especially for cooking; a highly admired or very admirable person or thing
demarcate
to fix or define the limits of, delimit; to set apart, distinguish
multitudinous
including a multitude of individuals; existing in a great multitude; existing in or consisting of innumerable elements or aspects
hypnagogic
of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep
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