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English Vocab #3
KAP English 2
Term | Definition |
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Abhor | To hate |
Abomination | Anything hateful or disgusting |
Abstruse | Hard to understand due to complexity |
Adamant | Insistent |
Adulation | Widespread admiration or praise in excess |
Behemoth | Big and powerful |
Callous | Incensitive |
Chagrin | Distress, Disappointed, or Embarrassed for failing; Aggravation |
Circuitous | Taking a roundabout, lengthy course |
Circumscribe | To limit, confine, or restrict |
Cynical | Believing people are selfish and distrusts human society; too focused on one's own situation and ignores appropriate achievable methods towards their goals |
Destitute | Lacking necessity of life and living in poverty |
Dogmatic | Following a set of rules no matter the circumstances; expressing opinions as if facts; believing in only one way of thinking |
Enigmatic | Baffling |
Idealize | To regard or represent as perfect or better than in reality |
Placate | To appease as a means of pacifying |
Pretentious | Attempting to impress when in reality, the attempt seems false or pompous |
Reiterate | To repeat something as a means of clarity |
Vehement | To state something forcefully or passionatel |
Zeitgeist | Intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era's spirit that separates it from the rest |