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Heermans vocabulary
140 vocabulary words and definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A different, lack of agreement | Descrepancy |
| A hint, indirect suggestion | Intimition |
| A lack, scarcity | Dearth |
| A large-scale destruction | Holocaust |
| A longing for something past | Nostalgia |
| A moving force | Impetus |
| A wry face, facial distortion | Grimace |
| Able to use both hands | Ambidextrous |
| An external experience | guise |
| Causing a sharp sensation | Pungent |
| Cautiously, with great care | Warily |
| Coming at a bad time | Innoportune |
| Courage in facing difficulties | Fortitude |
| Danger | Jeopardy |
| Definite, clearly stated | Explicit |
| Deprived of | Bereft |
| Deprived of the necessities of life | Destitude |
| Easily bent, flexible | Pliable |
| Easily done or attained | Facile |
| Experimental in nature | Tentative |
| Extremely careful | Meticuious |
| Extremely poisonous | Virulent |
| Fierce and cruel, agressive | Truculent |
| Free from error | infallible |
| Given to fighting | Belligerent |
| Hasty, not thorough | corsory |
| having a deep-seated distaste | averse |
| intended to deceive or entrap | insidious |
| kind, charitable | benevolent |
| lukewarm | tepid |
| make larger | augument |
| marked by honor | chivairous |
| mercy | clemency |
| neglectful in preformance of one's study | remiss |
| not affected or hurt by | impervious |
| not combed, untidy | unkempt |
| not easily moved | stoild |
| one who does care for others | benefactor |
| peaceable, friendly | amicable |
| possible, able to be done | feasible |
| sarcastic | ironic |
| shy, lacking self-confident | diffident |
| sincere, real | unfeigned |
| skillful | adroit |
| skillful, nimble | deft |
| stale, moldy | musty |
| stern, unyeilding | dour |
| rashness, boldness | temperity |
| the purest essence of something | quintessence |
| to corrupt | adulterate |
| to destroy totally | extirpate |
| to examine closly | scrutinize |
| to express agreement | assent |
| to go aboard | embark |
| to include or contain | comprise |
| to move backwards | retrogress |
| to position or arrange | deploy |
| to praise extravagantly | extol |
| to rest, lie | repose |
| to say again | relterate |
| to stare with open mouth | gape |
| to utter taunting words | gibe |
| to walk heavily or slowly | plod |
| to wave or flourish | brandish |
| to yeild to | accede |
| trenchery, deceitfulness | duplicity |
| unconquerable | indomitable |
| unselfish | altrustic |
| wealthy, luxurious | opulent |
| word for word | verbatim |
| a cleaver trick | artifice |
| a death | demise |
| a high peak or point | pinnacle |
| a remedy for all ills | panacea |
| a strict diciplinarian | martinet |
| a temporary stay | sojourn |
| an acomplishment | attainment |
| an enemey | adversary |
| an example that may serve for later actions | precedent |
| associated, connected | affliated |
| bending easily | supple |
| comfort, relief | solace |
| considered beforehand | premeditated |
| cool and confident | nonechalant |
| cowardly | craven |
| dark, gloomy | somber |
| deserving blame or punishment | reprenensible |
| diginified | stately |
| disorderly, riotous | turbulent |
| easily excused | vinial |
| eating away gradually | corrosive |
| exact, careful, attending to details | scrupulous |
| filthy, wrenched | squaild |
| forceful, convincing | cogent |
| great confusion | chaos |
| having limits | finite |
| inflicting or aiming at punishment | punitive |
| knowing everything | omniscient |
| land left unseeded | fallow |
| loud and noisy | vociferous |
| meddling | officious |
| not able to be wounded or hurt | invulnerable |
| of great size, numerous | voluminous |
| one who leaves a group | renegade |
| open to or marked by bribery | venal |
| proud and contemptuous | supercilious |
| refined in manner or style | urbane |
| related to cooking | culinary |
| roomy, spacious | commodious |
| running wild | rampent |
| so unimportant it can be disregarded | negilgible |
| spiteful, showing ill will | mavenvolent |
| still exsisting, not destroyed | extant |
| stormy, harsh | inclement |
| strange, mysterioous, weird | uncanny |
| to anicipate to prevent | obvilate |
| to bury | inter |
| to change in a formal way | amend |
| to compel, force | coerce |
| to disturb, worry | harass |
| to do without, give without voulintary | waive |
| to enliven, cheer | exhilerate |
| to erase | delete |
| to delete, oblierate | expunge |
| to find out | ascertain |
| to give or pass on as in inheritance | bequeath |
| to involve in | implicate |
| to make permanent or long-lasting | perpetuate |
| to move about steathily | skulk |
| to move toward one point | converge |
| to regard highly | esteem |
| to regard with honor | abhor |
| to scatter | disperse |
| to see clearly, recognize | discern |
| to set right, remedy | redress |
| to slap or cuff | buffet |
| to stop by force | suppress |
| to think about in a dreamy way | muse |
| to turn away | alienate |
| unfavorable, threatening | ominous |