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Honors English
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| piazza | central courtyard |
| iridescent | shiny; colorful |
| imminent | immediate |
| infallibility | indestructable |
| brazen | bold |
| beacon | hope; guide |
| teeming | abounding in |
| tempest | a storm |
| wretched | in poor condition |
| tautology | unnceccessary repetition of ideas |
| ignorant | not taught |
| bigotry | to dislike someone who is different |
| stupifyingly | awestruck |
| self-negate | contradict |
| bon mot | clever remark |
| archaic | not modern |
| spasmodicaly | move jerkily |
| nurture | care for |
| putrid | decaying smell |
| pinnacle | top |
| placid | calm |
| abomination | horrid |
| decorum | how one carries himself |
| fanatic | to be obsessed |
| eneveloped | to cover |
| beleaguered | to surround with military force |
| accordance | conformity |
| ascetic | stern expression |
| agape | in shock |
| umbrage | offense |
| latter | the last of the two |
| revelry | merry-making |
| accessible | approachable |
| supercilious | contemptuous |
| travesty | a shame |
| assailed | attacked |
| pallid | pale |
| quaff | to drink deeply |
| ruse | trick |
| remorse | regret |
| reel | lurch |
| invalid | sickly |
| marred | scarred |
| plaintive | sad |
| surcease | relief |
| obeisance | sign of respect |
| mien | a person's look or manner |
| rank | sour; rotten |
| nurture | care for |
| chastise | discipline |
| aptitude | capable |
| infraction | transgression |
| gravitate | to be pulled toward |
| palpable | tangible |
| adherence | to stick to something/someone - a set of beliefs for instance |