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Vocabulary- List 8

WordMeaning
Affable Pleasant, friendly
Ameliorate To make better, improve
Amenable Willing to agree, responsive
Approbation Approval
Appropriated To take or make use of without authority or right
Arduous Long and difficult and thus hard to accomplish
Audacious Very bold
Blanch To drain of color, become pale
Bombastic Pertentious, inflated speech or writing, lacking in humility
Brandish To shake or wave in a menacing manner
Brusque Rough and abrupt in manner or speech, curt
Burgeon To grow rapidly
Cantankerous Difficult or irritating to deal with
Caspacious Spacious, roomy
Circuitous Following a circular or winding path, indirect
Circumscribe To draw a line around, hence to restrict or limit
Compendium A concise list or summary
Consensus A general agreement, common consent
Corroborate To support with evidence, confirm a claim
Decorum Conformity to accepted norms of behavior
Defile To make unclear or impure, desecrate
Demonstrative An open display of feelings
Demystify To make clear and thus less baffling
Desolate Lonely, uninhabited
Desultory Marked by a lack of a plan or purpose, lacking direction
Dilatory Tending to delay or procrastinate
Disabuse To rid of false ideas, enlighten, free from error
Disdain To lookon with scorn
Disingenous Giving a false appearance of simple frankness, hencee calculating and crafty
Disparage To run down, belittle, speak poorly of
Diversion Something that diverts or amuses
Divulge To make known, reveal
Docile Easy to manage, malleable
Dogmatic Very subborn adherence to beliefs
Eclectic Selecting from a wide variety of sources, methods, or styles
Effervescent To give off bubbles and thus be bubbly, exuberant
Created by: Rampage
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