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Vocab words test

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Accrue To be added as a matter of periodic gain or advantage, as in interest of money
Alacrity Cheerful readiness, promptness or willingness
Amenable Ready or willingness to answer, act, agree or yield
Appall to fill or overcome with horror
Auspicious Promising of success , propitious; opportune; favorable
Calamity A great misfortune or or disaster
Capricious subject to led by or indicative of caprice; fickle
Contumely Insulting language or treatment
Delude to mislead the mind or judgement
Eminent high in station, rank, or repute; prominent or distinguished
Emoluments profit salary or fees from office or employment. compensation for services
Esoteric understood or meant only the select few who have special knowledge or interest
Hale Free from disease or infirmity
Ignominy disgrace; dishonor; public contempt
Impediment Obstruction; hindrance; obstacle Any physical deformity or defect
Indefatigable Incapable of being tired out
Infer to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from evidence
Indolent Having or showing a disposition to avoid trouble or extortion; slothful
Malefactress a woman who violates the law or does evil
Mountebank A person who sells quack medicines
Peremptory leaving no opportunity for refusal
Portico a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers
Prate to talk excessively and pointlessly
Progenitor A person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent.
Prolix (of speech or writing) Using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy.
Sagacity acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
Somnambulism Sleepwalking
Tenacity the quality or property of being tenacious.
Vititate Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of: "programs vitiated by red tape". Destroy or impair the legal validity of.
Created by: 14cjnyakoon
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