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Midterm Vocab
All Vocabulary learned since the first day of school
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| apathy | lack of feeling, emotion, or interest; indifference |
| gambol | to skip around in play |
| dissentient | one who dissagrees |
| cynical | believing all actions are attributed to selfish motives; pessimistic |
| plaited | interwoven strand or locks; braided |
| enmity | positive, active and typically mutual hatred or ill-will |
| pre-eminent | having paramount rank, dignity or important; outstanding |
| cryptic | intended to be obscure or mysterious |
| acute | of a kind to act keenly on the senses |
| ignominious | characterized by disgrace or shame; deserving blame or infamy; dishonorable |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| procured | to get possession of or to obtain by particular care or effort |
| publican | tax collector |
| restive | resisting control; marked by restlessness; fidgety |
| articulate | expressing oneself readily, clearly or effectively |
| malignity | an instance of being evil in nature, influence or effect or malicious behavior or nature; ill-will |
| capitulate | to surrender, often after negotiation of terms |
| retribution | something given or exacted in compensation; punishment |
| skulking | moving furtively; sneaking |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed; not injured |
| censured | to find fault with and criticize as blameworthy |
| contrived | to bring about by stratagem; to make schemes |
| complicity | the state of being an accomplice; partnership |
| demeanor | conduct; way of carrying oneself; bearing; behavior |
| superannuated | to retire and pension because of age or infirmity |
| inebriate | one that is drunk; a drunkard |
| morose | having a sullen disposition; gloomy |
| taciturn | disinclined to talk; reserved; uncommunicative |
| subsist | exist; persist; to have means of maintaining life; esp. to nourish yourself |
| choler | anger; wrath; irritability |
| nimble | quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile |
| infirmity | a physical weakness or ailment |
| apparition | a ghostly figure |
| mettle | a strength of spirit; personality |
| palter | to lie |
| redress | to correct |
| rhetoric | speaking or writing effectively |
| avenge | revenge |
| visage | appearance |
| chide | scold, disapproval |
| coffer | chest |
| peril | exposure to loss, danger |
| provender | dry food for animals |
| vile | disgusting |
| portent | something that foreshadows a coming event |
| cogitations | thoughts |
| lament | to mourn aloud |
| gamesome | merry |
| semblance | outward appearance, resemblance |
| truncheon | club; weapon; a police officer's billy |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty; inflexible |
| rasp | to grate upon; irritate |
| rectify | to correct by removing errors |
| zealot | to be an overly passionate person |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| bureaucrat | a member or the bureaucracy; esp. a gov't official who follows a narrow, rigid routine and who is established with great authority in his own department |
| reverence | honor or respect felt or shown |
| orthodox | conforming to establish doctrine esp. in religion |
| prosaic | plain, dull, unimaginative |
| exhoration | language inclined to incite and encourage |
| impudent | marked by cocky boldness or disregard of others |
| ingenious | marked by originality, resourcefulness and cleverness in conception or execution; clever |
| formidable | tending to inspire awe or wonder |
| demur | hesitation(as in doing or accepting) usually based on doubt of the acceptability of something offered or proposed |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection |
| illicit | not permitted; unlawful; illegal |
| stupor | a state of extreme apathy resulting from shock or stress; daze |
| eminent | standing above others in some quality or position; important |
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