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XU Organic Vocab 3
words 581-620
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tawdry | Cheap looking; shoddy; vulgar |
| effulgence | radience; splendor; brightness; shining |
| egregious | noticeably bad; flagrant |
| elicit | to draw forth or call forth; to evoke; to educe |
| topography | the surface features of land; the art and science of representing such on a map. |
| torpor | dullness; sluggishness; apathy; stupor. |
| torque | a force that rotates and twists or wrenches. |
| elucidation | explanation; clarification |
| prequisite | required beforehand in conjunctation with something to follow; anything so required. |
| dally | to waste time; to loiter; to play or trifle with; to playfully show affection. |
| cryptic | difficult to understanding; puzzling; mystifying secret. |
| amity | friendship; good will. |
| dastardly | mean; base; cowardly. |
| infirm | ill; feebly; irresolute. |
| inegenious | inventive; resourceful; clever; made or done in such a manner. |
| inherent | part of the essential character of; established within; inborn. |
| inhibition | a self imposed inner restraint; that which blocks or restrains; a restraining or inhibiting. |
| inimical | Like an enemy; hostile; unfriendly; opposing. |
| inimitable | not able to be imitated; unequaled; unparralled; unique. |
| innate | coming naturally from within; inborn; natural. |
| innocuous | harmless; without harmful effect or qualities. |
| dearth | scarcity; lack |
| debacle | a sudden and utter breakdown; an overwhelming and ruinous turn of events; a rout; a calamity. |
| debility | weakness; loss of strenght; infirmity. |
| debonair | pleasant and gracious; refined; suave; urbane. |
| couch | to put into words; to express appropiately; to phrasr; a piece of furnature - a sofa. |
| convert | secret; hidden; undercover. |
| cowers | shrinks away from in fear; cringes. |
| innovation | something new; a recent invention; the act or process of creating or introducing new things or ideas. |
| decadence | a process, condition or time of cultural or moral decline; deterioration; decay. |
| deciduous | shedding or falling off seasonally. |
| decimate | to destroy or kill a large number; literally; to kill one out of every ten. |
| increment | an increase or addition; the amount of increase. |
| euphony | the quality of pleasantness in sound; pleasant sound. |
| evanescent | tending to fade like vapor; vaporous; ephemeral. |
| crass | Unrefined; common; vulgar. |
| craven | cowardly |
| exerpt | to seledt of take out from; to extract; a passage taken out of a book, article, etc. |
| exemplary | setting an example; admirable; commendable. |
| exigency | a problem or situation requiring immediate attention; a state of urgency. |
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