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finals vocab
vocabulary words for final exam
Question | Answer |
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sordid | morally ignoble or base vile |
unassuming | modest unpretentious |
emancipated | not constrained or restricted by custom tradition superstition etc |
chide | to express disapproval of scold |
commensurate | corresponding in amount magnitude or degree |
deplore | to regret deeply or strongly |
standardized | to bring or make of an established standard size weight quality strength or the like |
jurisdiction | the right power or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies |
notorious | widely and unfavorably known |
travesty | a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation |
stint | to be frugal get along on a scanty allowance |
grotesque | odd or unnatural in shape appearance or character fantastically ugly or absurd bizarre |
dissipate | to scatter in various directions |
noxious | harmful or injurious to health or physical well being |
espouse | to make ones own adopt or embrace as a cause |
precarious | dependent on circumstances beyond ones control; uncertain unstable insecure |
distraught | distracted deeply agitated |
connoisseur | a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art paticuarliiy one of the fine arts or in matter of taste |
idiosyncrasy | a characteristic habit mannerism or the like that is so peculiar to an individual |