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honors9 final vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Consolation | the act of consoling; comfort; solace |
| Contemptuous | showing or expressing contempt or disdain |
| Deleterious | harmful; injurious |
| Fallacious | deceptive; misleading: |
| Magnanimous | generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness |
| Avaricious | greedy; covetous |
| Ignominiously | discreditable; humiliating |
| Melancholy | a gloomy state of mind |
| Morose | gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood |
| Eccentric | irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd |
| Interminable | incapable of being terminated; unending: |
| Obdurate | stubborn; unyielding. |
| Choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered |
| Sagacious | having or showing an ability to understand difficult ideas and situations and to make good decisions |
| Insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful; |