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HBL final Vocab 1-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abnegate | to refuse or deny oneself; reject; renounce; usually for yourself |
| abysmal | extremely hopeless; bad or severe; wretched; bottomless |
| affectation | behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress |
| ambience | the character or atmosphere of a place |
| ameliorate | to make something bad or unsatisfactory better |
| amenity | a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place |
| antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else; contrast |
| awry | away from the appropriate, planned, or expected course; amiss; going off course, twisted |
| Banal | so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring; devoid of originality |
| Bastion | fortified position; stronghold; fortress |
| Bemused | puzzle, confuse, or bewilder (someone) |
| Broach | raise a [sensitive or difficult] subject for discussion |
| Bucolic | of or relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life |
| Candor | the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness; truthfulness, sincere, honest behavior |
| Capitulate | cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender; give in |
| Cerebral | intellectual, rather than physical process; also relating to the brain |
| Circumspect | watchful and discreet; cautious |
| Collusion | a secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy |
| Compendium | A brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; a summary, epitome, or abridgement |
| Condone | to disregard or overlook |
| Copious | large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful |
| Debacle | a complete collapse or failure; a general breakup or dispersion |
| Decimate | to destroy a great number or proportion of |
| Deleterious | injurious to health |
| Denizen | an inhabitant; resident |
| Desiccate | to dry thoroughly; to dry up |
| Didactic | intended for instruction; inclined to lecture or teach to others too much |
| Disseminate | to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse |
| Edify | to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift |
| Egregious | extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant; shockingly bad |
| Endemic | natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous |
| Epitome | a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class; a brief summary that captures the whole of a plot |
| Erudite | characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly |
| Extrapolate | to infer from something that is known; conjecture |
| Fecund | producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful; excessively productive |
| Gregarious | fond of the company of others; sociable |
| Hackneyed | made commonplace or trite; stale; banal |
| Harbinger | a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald; signal yet to come |
| Hiatus | a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc. |
| Immutable | unchangeable; changeless |
| Impervious | not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable |
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