Chapter 11 Vocab
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| moderate, sparing; characterized by abstinence and self discipline | Abstemious | ||||
| Deserving of blame or correction | Censurable | ||||
| (adj) likely but not certain to happen; possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance(n) a representative group forming part of a larger body | Contingent | ||||
| To confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify | Corroborate | ||||
| An inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place | Denizen | ||||
| Passing aimlessly from one place to another; rambling, roving, nomadic | Discursive | ||||
| To scatter or spread widely | Disseminate | ||||
| Poorly dressed; shabby; lacking smartness and good taste | Dowdy | ||||
| Highly colored, reddish, excessively ornate, showy | Florid | ||||
| To impose by fraud, to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty, or coersion | Foist | ||||
| Awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy | Gauche | ||||
| An opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred | Heresy | ||||
| To impress on hte mind by repitition, teach persistently and earnestly | Inculcate | ||||
| Capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized | Palpable | ||||
| Having sympathetic insight or understanding; capable of keen appreciation | Perceptive | ||||
| Extremely harmful, deadly, fatal | Pernicious | ||||
| (adj) Leaping, jumping, or springing forth, prominent, standing out, conspicuous(n) a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward | Salient | ||||
| (v) to satisfy completely; to fill excess(adj) full, satisfied | Satiate | ||||
| to make or become dry and withered, to char or scorch the surface of, to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, dessicate, singe | Sear | ||||
| Deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit | Specious |
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Created by:
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on 2010-03-14