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Vocabulary 2
New words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| regale | to offer pleasure or amusement to |
| diffident | lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy. |
| truculent | fierce; cruel; savagely brutal. |
| countenance | n. appearance, esp. the look or expression of the face v. to permit or tolerate |
| belied | to show to be false; contradict |
| extol | to praise highly; laud; eulogize |
| bucolic | of or pertaining to shepherds; pastoral. |
| eschew | to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid |
| brackish | slightly salt; having a salty or briny flavor |
| acrimony | n sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition, |
| altruism | the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others |
| auscultation | The act of listening |
| bellicose | inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious. |
| caustic | capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue severely critical or sarcastic |
| accede | to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent |
| broach | to open up |
| gist | main or most important point |
| divestiture | taking away something desirable that was formerly possessed or owned |
| extant | still existing |
| tractability | easily changed or molded; obedience or tendency to be easily influenced by others |
| noisome | bad smelling; harmful in nature |
| incursion | intrusion into another's territory |
| abrogate | to do with, usually in legal context |
| insularity | the state of being isolated or confined to a limited area |
| unalloyed | Not in mixture with other metals; pure |
| minatory | menacing; threatening |
| lambaste | to reprimand or berate harshly; censure; excoriate. |
| viscid | having a glutinous consistency; sticky; adhesive; viscous. |
| turpitude | vile, shameful, or base character; depravity |
| philistine | lacking in or hostile to culture. |
| odium | intense hatred or dislike, esp. toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant. |
| fracas | a noisy, disorderly disturbance or fight; riotous brawl; uproar |
| boor | a churlish, rude, or unmannerly person |
| nice | carefully neat in dress, habits, |
| gainsay | to deny, dispute, or contradict. |
| occult | beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or understanding; mysterious. |
| extenuate | to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious |
| amplify | to expand in stating or describing, as by details or illustrations; clarify by expanding. |
| neonate | a newborn child, or one in its first 28 days |
| pontificate | to speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner |
| neural | of or pertaining to a nerve or the nervous system |
| ignominy | disgrace; dishonor; public contempt. |
| phlegmatic | not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish. |
| risible | causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous |
| senescent | growing old |
| extemporaneous | done, spoken, performed, etc., without special advance preparation; impromptu |
| turbid | not clear or transparent because of stirred-up sediment or the like; clouded; opaque; obscured |
| penumbra | a shadowy, indefinite, or marginal area |
| umbrage | the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like. |
| adumbrate | to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch. |
| vicar | a person who is authorized to perform the functions of another; deputy |
| vicissitude | a change or variation occurring in the course of something |
| volition | the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing |
| voluble | characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; |
| convolution | a rolled up or coiled condition |
| servile | slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning |
| prodigious | wonderful or marvelous |
| thrum | to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, esp. in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum. |
| subjugate | to make submissive or subservient; enslave. |
| prepossessing | that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive |
| lurid | gruesome; horrible; revolting: |
| aggregate | formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined |
| recumbent | lying down; reclining; leaning. Inactive. |
| codicil | any supplement; appendix |
| plaintive | expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful |
| auspicious | promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable |
| spurious | not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit. |
| beneficent | doing good or causing good to be done; conferring benefits; kindly in action or purpose. |
| engendering | To bring into existence; give rise to |
| sordid | morally ignoble or base; vile: |
| improvident | not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary |
| indolent | having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful |
| propitiatory | making propitiation; conciliatory. |
| portentously | ominously significant or indicative |
| languishing | expressive of languor; indicating tender, sentimental melancholy |
| enervated | to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken |
| edifying | to instruct or benefit, esp. morally or spiritually; uplift: |
| despotism | absolute power or control; tyranny. |
| sinews | the source of strength, power, or vigor: |
| unanimity | the state or quality of being unanimous; a consensus or undivided opinion |
| injunction | an act or instance of enjoining |
| incredulous | indicating or showing unbelief |
| solicitude | he state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern |
| obeisance | a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture. |
| repudiate | to reject as having no authority or binding force |
| lassitude | weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor. |
| jocular | given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious |
| tremulous | timid; timorous; fearful |
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