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honors9 final vocab
Term | Definition |
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Consolation | the act of consoling; comfort; solace |
Contemptuous | showing or expressing contempt or disdain |
Deleterious | harmful; injurious |
Fallacious | deceptive; misleading: |
Magnanimous | generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness |
Avaricious | greedy; covetous |
Ignominiously | discreditable; humiliating |
Melancholy | a gloomy state of mind |
Morose | gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood |
Eccentric | irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd |
Interminable | incapable of being terminated; unending: |
Obdurate | stubborn; unyielding. |
Choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered |
Sagacious | having or showing an ability to understand difficult ideas and situations and to make good decisions |
Insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful; |