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bethel vocab sem2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hindrance | a barrier |
| Demented | uncontrolled |
| Elude | to escape |
| Mar | to inflict harm |
| Mottled | spotted |
| Boisterous | full of rough and exuberant spirits |
| Aesthetic | characterized by an appreciation of beauty |
| Sepulcher | a tomb |
| Perfidious | tending to betray |
| Substantiate | strengthen with evidence or facts |
| orator | a person who delivers a speech |
| lassitude | lack of energy |
| brusque | marked by rude |
| canny | showing self-interest |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| clairvoyant | someone who claims to have the power to see events in the future |
| moribund | at the point of death |
| condescending | characterized by a patronizing or superior attitude toward others |
| tenacious | stubbornly unyielding |
| deleterious | harmful to living things |
| frugal | avoiding waste |
| anachronistic | chronologically misplaced |
| nefarious | criminal |
| torrid | very hot or dry |
| venerable | profoundly honored |
| cajole | coax |
| fraught | filled with |
| hackneyed | overused |
| impetuous | lack of thought |
| evanescent | to vanish like vapor |
| demagogue | a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices |
| brazen | propriety |
| jubilation | a feeling of extreme joy |
| ribald | lewd |
| camaraderie | the quality of easy familiarity and sociability |
| nonchalant | carefree or unconcerned |
| peremptory | final |
| opulent | rich and superior inquality |
| aberration | a state or condition different from the norm |
| pretentious | distinction |
| extenuating | justifying |
| florid | elaborately |
| palpitate | tremble |
| amicable | characterized by friendship and good will |
| diurnal | occuring during the daytime |
| rancorous | showing deep-seated resentment |
| ostentatious | intended to impress others |
| amity | friendship |
| reverence | a feeling of profound respect for someone or something |
| sagacity | the mental ability to understand betweens affairs |
| Ephemeral | anything short-lived |
| Arduous | difficult and tiring |
| Haughty | having or showing arrogant superiority |
| Vindicate | proof |
| Transient | lasting a very short time |