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WOW Vocab1
Question | Answer |
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Connotations | Something that suggest certain meaning in addition to the prior meaning. |
Delve | to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigate. |
Discordant | Not in harmony; conflicting. |
Disparagement | something that derogates or casts in a bad light |
Egregious | extraordinary in some terrible way. |
Emulate | to copy the actions of |
Equatorial | In relation to being on or near the equator |
Fatuity | a ludicrous folly |
Garish | obtrusively bright and showy |
Imbibed | To take in and assimilate something such as an idea or experience |
Impertinence | unmannerly and intruding. |
Imprecation | an oath or a curse |
Insurgent | a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel |
Laconic | Using very few words. |
Mellifluous | sweetly or smoothly flowing |
Misogynist | a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women |
Parthenogenesis | a type of reproduction, in which the unfertilized ovum develops directly into a new individual. |
Peccadilloes | a very minor or slight offense. |
Pugnacity | aggressiveness; a natural deposition to be hostile |
Pulchritudinous | beautiful |
Succumbed | Die or surrender or give up/in |
Vindictive | to proceed with a vengeful spirit |