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Boda Vocab 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Malaise (n) | a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease; cause difficult to identify; mental, moral ill being |
| Matriculate (v) | to enroll as a member of a body, especially in a college or university as a candidate for a degree |
| Maudlin (adj.) | tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental; emotional wreck to the point of being melodramatic |
| Milieu (n) | Surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature; social or physical environment |
| Mitigate (v) | to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate; to ease or alleviate the pain; something that is a circumstance or situation |
| Mollify (v) | to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify, appease; to appease the anger or anxiety of; towards a person |
| Morose (adj.) | gloomily or sullenly ill humored, as a person or mood |
| Myriad (n, adj.) | a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things; number over 10,000 usually; innumerable |
| Nefarious (adj.) | extremely wicked or villainous; vicious |
| Novel (adj.) | of a new kind; different from anything seen or known before; new, not resembling anything ever had before |
| Nuance (n) | a subtle difference; just barely there; small amount |
| Obdurate (adj.) | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding; stubborn or inflexible |
| Obfuscate (v) | to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy |
| Obsequious (adj.) | obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree; a suck |
| Onerous (adj.) | burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardships; imposing |
| Ostensible (adj.) | open to view; professed; plausible rather than true or real |
| Ostentatious (adj.) | characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
| Palpable (adj.) | readily or plainly seen, heard perceived, etc.; tangible |
| Paltry (adj.) | small or meager; inferior, trivial, despicable; trashy |
| Panacea (n) | an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties; cure |
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