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PIB Vocab List #5
White PIB American Lit, Vocabulary list 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| deride | V- to laugh at scornfully |
| desicated | ADJ- dry, dehydrate |
| despicable | ADJ- deserving to be despised |
| desultory | ADJ- passing aimlessly from one subject to another |
| deviate | V- to turn aside from a course, standard |
| diadem | N- a royal headband |
| diaphanous | ADJ- of so fine a textyre as to be transparent |
| dichtomy | N- a division or the process of dividing into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups |
| ebullient | ADJ- boiling, agitated |
| eclectic | ADJ- selecting or made up of what seems best of varied sources |
| edify | V- to edit |
| effete | ADJ- having lost character, vitality, or strength |
| egregious | ADJ- notably bad |
| elegy | N- a song, poem, or speech, expressing grief for one who is dead |
| elicit | V- to draw out or forth |