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Week 9 Vocab LO
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acclamation | shout of welcome; overwhelming verbal note of approval; ovation, cheering, plaudits |
| bucolic | characteristic of the countryside, rural; relating to the shepherds and cowards, pastoral; rustic |
| calumniate | to slander; to accuse falsely and maliciously; defame, libel |
| chary | extreme cautious, hesitant, or slow; reserved, diifident; skittish |
| collusion | secret agreement or cooperation; conspiracy, plot, connivance |
| dilettante | a dabbler in the arts; one who engages in an activity in an amateurish, trifling way; superficial; amateur |
| imperturbable | no easily excited; emotionally steady; unflappable, unexcitable, serene, unruffled |
| increment | enlargement, increase, addition; accretion |
| mandate | authoritative command, formal order, authorization; to issue an order; directive |
| paltry | trifling, insignificant; mean, despicable; inferior, trashy; measly, meager, piddling, trivial |
| paroxysm | a sudden outburst, a spasm, convulsion; fit, seizure |
| pedantry | pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details; nit-picking, pettifoggery |
| peregrination | the act of traveling; an excursion, especially on foot or to a foreign country; journey, wandering, odyssey |
| redolent | fragrant, smelling strongly; tending to arouse memories or create an aura; evocative, reminiscent, aromatic |
| refulgent | shining, radiant, resplendent; splendid |
| shibboleth | a word, expression, or custom that distinguishes a particular group or persons from all others; a commonplace saying or truism; passowrd, slogan |
| tyro | a beginner, novice; one with little or no background skill; neophyte |
| unremitting | not stopping, maintained steadily, never letting up, relentless; incessant, unrelenting |
| vacillate | to swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will |
| vituperative | harshly abusive, severly scolding; abusive, scurrilous, insulting |