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Gravity
Terms in this set (80)
Bovine
● resembling a cow or ox; slow and sluggish; unresponsive
Consternation
● uneasiness; agitation; disappointment; confusion; feelings of distress and anxiety
Corpulent
● fat; overweight
Disavow
● to deny responsibility for or connection with
Dispassionate
● impartial (treating all equally); free from emotion; unbiased
Dissension
● disagreement; sharp difference of opinion
Dissipate
● to cause to disappear; to spread; to scatter
● to spend foolishly or wastefully
Acrimonious
● stinging; bitter in temper or tone; argumentative
● usually refers to language, arguments
Expurgate
● to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse or purify
Gauntlet
● a protective glove
● a challenge; a dare
● two lines of people armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them
Hypothetical
● based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional (temporary) idea to guide an investigation
Ignoble
● base (having inferior qualities); unworthy; dishonorable; mean
Impugn
● to call into question; to attack as false
Intemperate
● lacking self-control in how one expresses him or herself; unrestrained; severe in temper
Odium
● shame resulting from hateful conduct; the state of being subjected to hatred as a result of despicable or blameworthy acts
Perdify
● faithlessness; treachery; betrayal
Relegate
● to assign as in to give credit to or explain something by pointing to its cause
to place in a lower position
Squeamish
● excessively fastidious (difficult to please)
● easily shocked or upset; inclined to nausea
Subservient
● submissively obedient; obsequious
Susceptible
● vulnerable; open to; lacking resistance; easily influenced
Austere
● without decoration; simple; plain
●severe or stern in manner
● harsh or sour in flavor
Beneficent
● charitable; relating to acts of kindness or humanitarian work
Cadaverous
● corpselike; pale; emaciated
Concoct
● to prepare by combining ingredients
● to make up; to form in the mind (synonym contrive!)
Crass
● crude or vulgar in taste, manners, or language
Debase
● to lower in quality or value; to cheapen
Desecrate
● to violate; to offend; to treat with disrespect
Disconcert
● to disturb the composure of; to perturb, to upset; to rattle
Grandiose
● grand and magnificent in an impressive way
● marked by pompous affectation (a display of behavior that is not natural to oneself or not genuinely felt); pretentious; absurdly exaggerated
Inconsequential
● unimportant
Infraction
● a breaking of a law, rules, or obligation
Mitigate
● to make less severe; to soften; to reduce the intensity of; to relieve
Pillage
● to take goods by force
● something taken by force
Prate
● to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
Punctilious
● attentive to details; precise; fussy
● conforming to what is socially acceptable in conduct
Redoubtable
● inspiring fear or awe
Reprove
● to scold; to find fault with; to criticize sharply
Restitution
● the act of restoring someone to his or her rightful place ; restoration
● the act of making good on a loss or damage; compensation
Stalwart
● strong; brave; determined
● a strong or brave person; a strong supporter
Vulnerable
● open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotectedvh
Anomalous
●abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
Aspersions
● a damaging or derogatory statement; a false or
misleading charge meant to harm someone's
reputation
Bizarre
● extremely strange, unusual, atypical
Brusque
● abrupt, blunt, without formalities
(politeness)
Cajole
● to persuade through flattery; to deceive with soothing
thoughts or false promises
● cajole a person into doing something
Castigate
● to punish severely; to criticize severely
Contrive
● to plan with inventiveness or cleverness; to come
up with a story
Demagogue
● a leader who exploits (takes advantage of)
popular feelings and makes false promises in order
to gain power
Disabuse
● to free from deception or error in one's thinking; to set
right in one's thinking
Ennui
● weariness and dissatisfaction from a lack of
occupation or interest; boredom
Fetter
● a chain or shackle placed on the feet (often used in the plural);
anything that confines or restrains
Heinous
● wicked, outrageously offensive and despicable
Immutable
● not able to be changed, unalterable,
constant, fixed
Insurgent
● one who rebels or rises against authority
Megalomania
● a delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth
Sinecure
● a position requiring little or no work; an easy job
Surreptitious
● stealthy, secretive, intended to escape
observation
Transgress
● to go beyond a limit or boundary; to violate
a law
Transmute
● to change from one nature, substance, or form to
another
Vicarious
● performed, suffered, or experienced by one in
place of another
Amnesty
● a general pardon for an offense against a government
● officially saying that someone who was judged to be guilty of a crime will be allowed to go free and will not be punished
● any act of forgiveness
Autonomy
• self-government; self-directing freedom; independence
Axiomatic
• expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
• generally refers to a truth, a saying, an expression, or an idea
1.) not appreciated; and
2.) accepted as true without questioning it.
Blazon
• to adorn or embellish (decorate); to display conspicuously (openly); to publish or proclaim widely
Caveat
• a warning or caution to prevent a misunderstanding or to discourage a behavior
Equitable
• fair, just, reasonable
Extricate
• to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort
Filch
• to steal, especially in petty amounts
Flout
• to mock; to treat with a lack of respect;
to disregard
Fractious
• tending to be troublesome; unruly; difficult to control
Precept
• a rule of conduct or action; a principle (a belief that one lives by)
Salutary
• beneficial; helpful; healthy; having a therapeutic effect
Scathing
• bitterly severe; causing great harm; harsh
1.) becoming dry and shriveled; and
2.) intended to make someone feel mortified or humiliated.
Scourge
• to whip; to punish severely
Sepulchral
• funereal; relating to death; extremely gloomy or depressing
Soporific
• tending to cause sleep
Straitlaced
• extremely strict in moral standards and conduct; highly conventional
Transient
• lasting only a short time
Unwieldy
• not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity
Vapid
• dull, uninteresting; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force
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