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English 1
Term | Definition |
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Alienate | To cause to turn away. |
Lackadaisical | without spirit, interest, or effort. |
Fatalistic | Believing that everything is determined by fate and is inevitable |
Elated | very proud or happy: high spirits. |
Epigram | a short witty saying or quip. |
Licentious | ignoring rules or morals. |
numismatist | One who collects coins. |
obtrude | To force something upon another person. |
paucity | smallness of number or scarce. |
Pensive | Deep in thought. |
amalgamate | (v.) To combine; To mix or blend together |
antiquated | (adj.) Old-fashioned and obsolete, Not useful anymore, Old |
beleaguer | (v.) To annoy persistently; harass |
caricature | (n.) A picture or representation in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted; (v.) To make a distorted representation of someone or something |
dally | (v.) To waste time idly, To fool around or delay |
demented | (adj.) Crazy, mentally ill, insane |
felonious | (adj.) Involving or concerning criminal activity, lawbreaking |
gorge | (v.) To stuff with food, to swallow; (n.) A small canyon with steep walls |
hone | (v.) To make sharper, to make more effective or improve |
opiate | (n.) A narcotic drug that causes sleep and relieves pain |
ambidextrous | (adj.) Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease |
animate | (v.) To give life to, To move or stir to action; (adj.) Possessing life or alive |
belated | (adj.) After the expected or usual time; Delayed or tardy |
berserk | (adj.) Violently or destructively enraged; (adv.) Destructively or violently enraged |
chauvinist | (n.) One who is prejudiced in the superiority of their gender, group, or kind; (adj.) Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind |
delude | (v.) To mislead the mind or judgment of; To deceive |
edifice | (n.) An impressively large, overwhelming building or structure |
egalitarian | (adj.) Belief that all people should have equal rights; (n.) One who believes that all people should have equal rights. |
knead | (v.) To work clay or dough into a uniform mixture by pressing, folding and stretching |
ostentatious | (adj.) Showy and intended to impress others |