vocab- last vocab test!!!
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| accrue | to increase
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| annotation | commentary, notes
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| antediluvian | very old
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| bedlam | chaos
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| covert | hidden, disguised
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| debonair | sophisticated, carefree, nonchalant
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| dun | to press for payment
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| efficacious | capable of producing desired effect
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| equanimity | calmness, composure
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| fortuitous | fortunate, ocurring by chance
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| gist | main point
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| gratuitous | given freely; without cause
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| imperious | arrogant, overbearing
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| inimical | unfriendly
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| invective | characterized by abusive language; dununciation
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| motley | varied, diverse, incongruous
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| munificent | generous
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| procrastinate | tending to delay
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| provocative | something that provokes
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| recondite | beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding
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| reprobate | perverted; an immoral person; wicked
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| sedentary | inactive; characterized by sitting
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| abstemious | restraint from indulging a desire for something
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| accentuate | to give emphasis to
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| censurable | deserving of strong or vehement expression of disapproval
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| contingent | dependent for existence; happening by chance
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| corroborate | to make more certain; confirm
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| denizen | a person who regularly frequents a place; inhabitant
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| discursive | passing aimlessly from one subject to another
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| disseminate | to scatter or spread widely; disperse
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| dowdy | not stylish; drab; old-fashioned
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| florid | flowery; excessively ornate; showy
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| foist | to force upon or impose unjustifiably
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| gauche | lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude
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| heresy | any belief that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs
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| inculcate | to implant by repeated statement; teach persistently
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| palpable | readily or plainly seen, perceived; evident; obvious
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| perceptive | having or showing keeness of insight; understanding or intuition
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| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive; deadly
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| quail | small game bird; to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger
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| salient | moving by leaps or springs; jetting upward; standing out conspicuously
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| satiate | to satisfy; filled to satiety
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| sear | to make withered and dry; burn, scorch, or injure suddenly as with heat
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| specious | having deceptive attraction or allure; having a false look of truthfulness or genuineness
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| absolve | to set free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt
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| caricature | ludicrous exaggeration of characteristics
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| clangor | resounding clang or a medley of clangs
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| contiguous | touching in an unbroken sequence
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| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth; lust
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| deleterious | harmful of in a subtle or unexpected way
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| enhance | to increase or improve in quality or attractiveness
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| enthrall | to hold in or reduce to slavery; to hold spellbound
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| extenuate | to make light of; try to lessen extent of by making partial excuses
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| exude | to ooze out; show particular quality clearly
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| implicit | implied; being without doubt or reserve
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| incisive | impressively direct or decisive
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| ostentatious | marked by pretentious display
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| paragon | model of excellence or perfection
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| paraphrase | restatement of text
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| politic | shrewdness in managing, contriving, or dealing
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| preeminent | having paramount rank, dignity, or importance
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| prosaic | factual; dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary
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| redundant | superfluous; not necessary to portray a point
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| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout
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| scintillating | brilliantly lively, stimulating, or witty
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| winsome | generally pleasing due to childlike innocence; cheerful, lighthearted
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