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Avalos Week 12

40 words

TermDefinition
Alacrity speed or quickness
Alleviate to make more bearable
Burnish to polish
Chauvinist someone prejudiced in favor of a group that he or she belongs to
Dilettante someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dirge a funeral hymn or mournful speech
Enigma a puzzle, a mystery
Gullible easily deceived
Meticulous extremely careful about details
Philanthropy charity, a desire or effort to promote goodness
Amalgamate to combine, to mix together
Chicanery deception by means of craft or guile
Disabuse to set right, free from error
Enumerate to count, list, itemize
Impervious impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
Lassitude state of diminished energy
Occlude to stop up, prevent the passage of
Phlegmatic calm and unemotional in temperament
Quiescent motionless
Torpor extreme mental and physical sluggishness
Ambiguous doubtful or uncertain, can be interpreted several ways
Ameliorate to make better; to improve
Circumspect cautious, aware of potential consequences
Discern to perceive or recognize
Implacable unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Latent potential that is not readily apparent
Onerous troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
Reticent silent, reserved
Sublime lofty or grand
Transitory temporary, lasting a brief time
Anachronism something out of place in time
Coalesce to grow together to form a single whole
Disparate fundamentally different; entirely unlike
Esoteric known or understood only by a few
Florid excessively decorated or embellished
Guile deceit, trickery
Homogeneous of a similar kind
Inchoate not fully formed, disorganized
Laud to give praise, to glorify
Misanthrope a person who dislikes others
Created by: cavalos
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