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Mrs.Schullein

Vocab 1-35

TermDefinition
Advocacy Support of an idea or cause
Affinity A likeness, a natural realtionship a kinship
Agile The ability to move quicklly with suppleness and grace
Alacrity Prompt or cheerful response
Amiable Friendly, sociable
Baseness The quality od lacking higher values
Beguile To deceive, to mislead, and to persuade or charm
Bestial Brutal without reason, having the attributwes of a savage
Bestow To grant or give
Boisterous Rowdy, rought and stormy
Bombastic Usinginflated language, pompous
Candid Blunt, sincere honesty
Carnal Marled by sexuality that is often frank and unrelieved by higher emotions
Castigate To punish or to subdue by punishment, to criticize with severity
circumspect Careful to consider the consequences, cautious
consecrate To dedicate or to declare sacred
Cynical Given to sneering or sarcasm, exhibiting mocking disbelief
Defunct No longer existing, dead
Desloate Deserted, without inhabitants, barren
Dilatory Delaying, slow
Discern To differentiate between two or more thing
Discord Lack of agreement, tension, and strife
Discretion Ability to act on one`s own power or individual decision
Edifiying Instructing and improving spiritually or morally
Enmesh To entangle
Entreat A plea, earnest request
Epithet A term or phase describing or characterizing
Facile Easily achieved with little diffuculty
Forbearance Patience, lenience
Fulsome Excess to the point of disgust
Garner To gather together or store up
Gravity Seriousness, importance
Guileless Without deciet
Hideous Very ugly, offensive
Homage Respect shown by external action
Created by: owenwelsh
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