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Midterm Vocab
Ms. Anderson's Midterm List
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ascetic (adj.) | shunning pleasures; self-denying; austere |
| ascetic (n.) | person who shuns pleasures and ives simply |
| glum (adj.) | moody; gloomy; dour |
| convivial (adj.) | fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable |
| obsequious (adj.) | showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning |
| svelt (adj.) | slender; lithe |
| facetiousness (adj.) | 1. in the habit of joking; 2. said in jest without serious intent |
| malignant (adj.) | 1. threatening to cause death (ant. benign); 2. very evil |
| ludicrous (adj.) | exciting laughter; ridiculous; farcical; absurd |
| filial (adj.) | of or like a son or daughter |
| patriarchal (adj.) | having to do with the father and ruler of a famiy or tribe or the founder |
| matriarchal (adj.) | 1. having to do with the mother and ruler of a family or tribe 2. having to do with a highly repected old woman |
| polytheistic (adj.) | having to do with the belief that there is a plurality of gods (ant. monotheistic) |
| symbiotic (adj.) | referring to living toether in a mutually helpful association of two dissimilar organisms |
| primordial (adj.) | 1. existing at the very beginning 2. elementary; primary; first in order |
| eclectic (adj.) | choosing (ideas, methods, etc.) from various sources; selective |
| cursory (adj.) | running over hastily; superficially done; as a cursory glance |
| adaptable (adj.) | versatile; able to turn with ease from one thing to another |
| contiguous (adj.) | touching, adjoining, in physical contact |
| abstemious (adj.) | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate; abstinent |
| serrated (adj.) | saw-toothed |
| contingent (adj.) | 1. dependent on something else (literally, 'touching together') 2. accidental |
| consecutive (adj.) | following in regular order; successive |
| juxtapose (v.) | put side by side; put close together |
| axiom (n.) | self-evident truth; maxim |
| anomaly (n.) | deviation from the common rule |
| apogee (n.) | 1. farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body (ant. perigee) 2. highest point; culmination |
| hyperbole (n.) | extravagant exaggeration of statement |
| cogitate (v.) | think over;consider with care; ponder; deliberate |
| decapitate (v.) | behead |
| exaggerate (v.) | overstate; go beyond the limits of the actual truth; magnify (ant. minimize) |
| expurgate (v.) | remove objectionable material from a book; bowdlerize; purify |
| vivacious (adj.) | lively in temper or conduct (ant. languid, lacking in vigor) |
| polymorphic (adj.) | having various forms (ant. monomorphic) |
| pathetic (adj.) | arousing pity |
| indubitable (adj.) | certain; incontravertable; indisputable (ant. questionable, doubtful) |
| indigenous (adj.) | native |
| incognito (adj.) | disguised state |
| disingenuous (adj.) | not being sincere |
| contrite (adj.) | showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penitent; repentant; remorseful |
| gaunt (adj.) | haggard, excessively thin |
| brazen (adj.) | 1. shameless; impudent 2. made of brass or bronze |
| halcyon (adj.) | calm, peaceful (from halcyon, a bird thought to calm the waves) |
| emaciated (adj.) | made unnaturally thin, abnormally lean because of starvation or illness (ant. fleshy) |
| unsavory (adj.) | 1. unpleasant to taste or smell 2. morally offensive |
| astringent (n.) | substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood |
| eulogize (v.) | praise; extol; laud; glorify (ant. vilify) |
| frolic (v.) | play and run about happily; have fun; romp |
| lament (v.) | mourn; deplore |
| attenuate (v.) | make thin; weaken |
| droll (adj.) | odd and laughter provoking |
| archaic (adj.) | no longer used, except in a special context; old-fashioned |
| fulsome (adj.) | offensive because of insincerity, repulsive, disgusting |
| benign (adj.) | not dangerous (ant. malignant) |
| philogyny (n.) | love of women (ant. misogyny) |
| stigma (n.) | mark of disgrace |
| volition (n.) | will |
| travesty (n.) | imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous; mockery |
| nepotism (n.) | favortism to relatives by those in power |
| cronyism (n.) | ? |
| gratis (adv.) | without charge or payment; free |
| menial (adj.) | low; mean; subservient; servile |
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