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Vocab Week 10 :D
aboveboard - vituperative pg. 257-276
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vituperative | adj. bitter and abusive |
| vagaries | n. hard-to-predict, erratic notions or actions |
| torpid | adj. inactive; sluggish; dormant |
| tepid | adj. moderately warm; lacking force or enthusiasm |
| staid | adj. marked by self-restraint, sober, grave |
| scion | n. an heir; descendant |
| salacious | adj. focused on matters of sex in an inappropriate way; obscene |
| repine | v. to be discontented or unhappy; to long for something |
| quintessence | n. a pure substance or essence of something |
| prurient | adj. eliciting or possessing an extraordinary interest in sex |
| protean | adj. able to change shape, displaying great variety |
| prepossessing | adj. attractive; impressing favorably |
| potentate | n. a monarch or ruler, esp. an autocratic one |
| peremptory | adj. having the nature of a command; permitting no denial |
| pedagogy | n. the art or profession of teaching |
| pecuniary | adj. of or involving money |
| pathology | n. the study of the cause and development of disease; a departure from a normal condition |
| panegyric | n. a formal public compliment or elaborate praise |
| obstreperous | adj. noisy and boisterous; sometimes even aggressive or defiant |
| obfuscate | v. to make difficult to understand |
| nadir | n. the lowest point; the bottom |
| mordant | adj. bitingly sarcastic |
| modish | adj. fashionable |
| maladroit | adj. ineffective and clumsy |
| lummox | n. a clumsy person |
| lugubrious | adj. sad or mournful, esp. in a way that seems exaggerated or ridiculous |
| lexicography | n. the making of dictionaries |
| kitsch | n. art characterized by sentimental, often pretentious bad taste |
| involution | n. complication |
| invidious | adj. tending to arouse hostility or resentment |
| inveigh | v. to utter vehement censure or invective |
| imbrue | v. to wet or moisten |
| idyllic | adj. pleasing and simple |
| honorarium | n. a token fee or payment to a professional man for services |
| hoary | adj. white or gray, as with age; old and venerable with wisdom and age |
| gerontic/gerontological | adj. of or relating to very old age; having to do with the last stage of life |
| gadfly | n. a person who annoys others |
| flummox | v. to confuse or perplex |
| felicitous | adj. well suited, apt; delightful, pleasing |
| factious | adj. causing dissension |
| extradition | n. the surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government |
| endemic | adj. native to a particular country |
| ebullient | adj. in high spirits; boiling or seeming to boil |
| diatribe | n. prolonged and bitter speech or writing |
| demur | v. to object; to disagree with something |
| conflate | v. to bring together; to merge into a composite whole |
| comestible | adj. fit to be eaten |
| codicil | n. an addition to a will |
| cavalcade | n. an order of events; a procession |
| caitiff | n. a weak, cowardly person |
| byzantine | adj. highly complicated or intricate; characterized by devious plotting |
| bacchanalian | adj. characterized by riotous, drunken partying |
| augur | v. to predict |
| arbitration | n. the process or act of resolving a dispute |
| antediluvian | adj. extremely old; usually, historically a reference to the era before the Flood |
| abrogate | v. repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement) |
| vendetta | n. a bitter feud or quarrel; fight |
| vagrant | n. a person who wanders from place to place, esp. one who lives on the streets |
| supplant | v. to take the place of |
| saccharine | adj. sickeningly sweet |
| rapacious | adj. excessively greedy; taking by force |
| quandary | n. a state of uncertainty, esp. about what course of action to take |
| proscribe | v. to prohibit or forbid; to denounce |
| placebo | n. something presented as a drug, but having no effect |
| peruse | v. to read carefully (often used to mean "to skim quickly") |
| pert | adj. flippant, bold; saucy and lively in an attractive way |
| perjury | n. lying under oath, as in a court of law |
| obdurate | adj. not easily moved to pity or sympathy |
| nihilism | n. a belief that rejects all moral or religious values |
| misogyny | n. a hatred of women |
| maxim | n. a short saying expressing a general principle |
| lassitude | n. a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy |
| jettison | v. to throw overboard; discard or abandon something no longer wanted |
| inordinate | adj. excessive, unrestrained |
| impunity | n. the state of being immune to punishment |
| extant | adj. currently or actually existing |
| expiate | v. to speed up |
| equivocal | adj. capable of multiple interpretations; unclear |
| enmity | n. the bitter attitude or feelings of an enemy or of mutual enemies |
| efficacy | n. the power to produce the desired effect |
| defunct | adj. having ceased to exist or live |
| debase | v. to lower the quality or esteem of something |
| corpuscle | n. a minute particle of matter |
| convalescent | adj. recovering from illness or injury; recuperating |
| contingent | adj. unpredictable because dependent on chance; dependent on something uncertain |
| conciliate | v. to overcome or try to overcome distrust or hatred through friendly acts |
| compendium | n. a short, complete summary |
| commingle | v. to blend |
| circumvent | v. to go around; bypass; to surround |
| chagrin | n. feeling of embarrassment because of failure or disappointment |
| carp | v. complain or find fault continually, typically about trivial matters |
| canon | n. a religious law; an established principle or basis for judgment; the works of a writer that are authentic |
| bravura | n. a showy display |
| august | adj. inspiring awe or admiration, esp. because of high rank or character |
| assuage | v. to lessen; to take the edge off; to tone down |
| ardor | n. extreme vigor, energy, enthusiasm |
| antecedent | n. a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another |
| amenity | n. an item that increases comfort |
| ambiance | n. environment |
| aggrandize | v. to enlarge; increase in size, power, or rank |
| adjourn | v. to suspend until a later time |
| acquiesce | v. to agree without protest |
| abscond | v. to go away hastily and secretly; to hide |
| abash | v. to confuse or distress; to cause perplexity and uncertainty; to embarrass |
| juncture | n. a point of time; a concurrence of events |
| acclaim | high praise |
| aboveboard | adj. without concealment, fraud, or trickery |
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