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Vocab Def. #1
Stack #165942
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abase | to degrade, to humiliate |
| abate | to reduce in intensity or amount |
| abstruse | difficult to understand, recondite, concealed |
| abyss | bottomless hole, a vast expanse or depth |
| acuity | sharpness of perception |
| affinity | a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship |
| alacrity | prompt and cheerful response |
| alchemist | one who practices medieval chemistry or tries to change metals into gold |
| alloy | a substance that is a mixture of metals |
| amenable | open to or willing to follow advise or suggestion, tractable, malleable |
| antipathy | a dislike, distaste, or enmity |
| append | to add in supplementary manner |
| arduous | very difficult to accomplish or to achieve, very demanding (task) |
| ascend | to move upward, to rise from a lower station |
| ascetic | one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation: absent of luxury |
| audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
| augury | an omen or prophecy |
| auspicious | favorable |
| austere | strict, stern: unadorned, ascetic |
| balm | a soothing substance or one that gives relief |
| benevolence | kindness, generosity, charity |
| benign | not causing harm of gentle disposition, beneficial |
| betoken | to give a sign of |
| blighted | destroyed or caused by decline or decay |
| buoyant | capable of floating; cheerful |
| burnish | to make shiny or to polish by rubbing |
| calamity | a serious event causing distress or misfortune |
| capricious | changing suddenly, fickle |
| consecrate | to dedicate or to declare sacred |
| credible | reliable and believable |
| dearth | a lack of scarcity |
| decorousness | proper behavior |
| decorum | appropriate conduct, correct and proper behavior |
| deleterious | harmful; dangerous; injurious |
| depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
| derision | scoffing at, mockery, ridicule |
| despondency | depression, dejection |
| despotic | ruling oppresssively and absolutely; tyrannical |
| discern | to differenciate between two or more things |
| duplicity | double-dealing, hypocrisy |
| edifice | a very large building |
| efervescent | showing high spirits |
| endow | to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality |
| enmity | absolute hatred |
| entreaty | a plea, an earnest request |
| enumerate | to count one by one |
| erudite | scholarly |
| esoteric | understood only by a small group or a select few |
| estrange | to alienate, to separate |
| ethereal | heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible |
| eulogy | praise or tribute |
| evanescent | fleeting; impermanent |
| exigent | urgent, requiring immediate attention |
| exipate | to atone or to make amends for a sin or a crime |
| extant | still in existence |
| feverent | ardent, showing great emotion, impassioned |
| florid | flowery, flushed with color |
| foliage | leaves of a plant, leafage |
| forbearance | patience, lenience |
| foreboding | premonition of evil, an ominous omen |
| fugitive | a person who is elusive or hard to find, wandering |
| furrow | to make wrinkles or grooves |
| gaunt | very thin, emaciated, angular |
| gentility | state of refinement, member of the upper class or gentry |
| gratuitous | given freely, unwarranted |
| grievous | characterized by severe suffering or sorrow, serious or grave |
| ignominy | disgraceful or dishonerable conduct |
| imbibe | to absorb or drink in |
| imperious | extremely overbearing |
| implicit | understood but not directly expressed |
| import | relative importance, significance |
| impugn | to assail or to attack one's honor or integrity |
| impute | to blame or to charge |
| inauspicious | unfavorable |
| incantation | a spell, written or recited formula of words designed for a particular effect |
| inclement | stormy, severe |
| incongruity | nonconformity, disagreement, incompatability |
| incurious | uninterested, lacking normal curiosity |
| indefatigable | tireless, incapable of being fatigued |
| inextricable | not able to be disentangled |
| infamous | having a reputation of teh worst kind, vicious, notoriously bad |
| inopportune | inconvenient, poorly timed |
| inscrutable | difficult to understand; mysterious |
| insidious | treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way |
| inveterate | firmly established, habitual, deep-rooted |
| inviolable | secure from violation or from being profaned |
| jocular | jesting or joking |
| jollity | merriment, state of being jolly |
| labyrinthine | like a maze, very confoluted and intricate |
| lament | to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner |
| languid | slow, sluggish, listless, weak |
| laud | to praise, to extol |
| loquacious | very talkative |
| lurid | sensational, gruesome and causing shock or horror |
| magnate | a person of power and influence |
| malefactor | a criminal |
| malevolence | ill will or evil intentions |
| malicious | motivated by hate or deliberate intent to harm |
| malleable | capable of being shaped, influenced or altered; tractable |
| melancholy | depression of spirits |
| mirth | gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter |
| misanthrope | a hater of mankind |
| mollify | to soothe or to appease, to assuage |
| oblivion | state of being forgotten |
| obxcure | difficult to see, vague |
| obtuse | dull of mind, insensitive, stupid |
| obviates | makes unnecessary, prevents as a result of anticipating |
| odious | deserving hate or contempt |
| ominous | threatening |
| opaque | not allowing the passage of light, not transparent; hard to understand |
| palliate | to ease pain, guilt or intensity |
| pallor | extreme paleness usually repating to the face |
| palpable | tangible, perceptible, easily noticeable |
| peal | a loud ringing (usually of bells) |
| penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant |
| petty | small and insignificant |
| petulance | unreasonable touchiness or irritablility |
| piety | devotion and reverence to God |
| placid | peaceful, calm |
| plaintive | mournful and expressing sorrow |
| pompous | exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance, bombastic |
| ponderous | very heavy, unwieldy from weight |
| portal | a doorway (especially a large one) |
| portent | a sign or forewarning |
| posterity | future generations, all descendants of a person |
| potent | powerful, having a strong effect |
| potentate | a monarch, very powerful ruler, sovereign |
| prattle | meaningless sounds, babble |
| precipice | a very steep cliff or mass of rock, the brink of something dangerous |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurence |
| predilection | preference |
| primeval | ancient, relating to teh earliest ages |
| prolific | abundantly fruitful, marked by great productivity |
| propensity | preference, natural inclination |
| propinquity | nearness; kinship |
| propriety | correcft conduct |
| quaint | unusual in character or appearance |
| regimen | the regular process, procedure, or system of doing something |
| remonstrate | to protest, to make objections |
| replete | filled to capacity, abundantly supplied |
| requite | to make repayment or to return |
| revere | to honor, to regard with respect |
| rotund | very plump, round |
| sagacious | wise, shrewd, very discerning |
| scintillating | sparkling, shining, or flashing |
| sedulously | very diligent, accomplishing with painstaking care |
| sentinel | one who keeps guard as a sentry |
| solace | to comfort or to cheer |
| stalwart | one who supports a cuase with firm partisanship |
| superfluous | beyond what is needed or required, an overflow |
| tarry | to delay in coming or going, to linger |
| tempestuous | turbulent, stormy |
| tome | a book that is a large volume |
| torpid | sluggish, inactive, dull |
| unobtrusive | not readily noticeable, inconspicuous |
| vagrant | a wanderer who does not have a home |
| venerate | to honor, to revere |
| vicissitude | a passing from one thing to another, change of luck |
| virtuous | having excellent morals; righteous |
| vista | a distant view seen through an opening |
| vitiated | impaired, corrupted, or made ineffective |
| voluminous | marked by great volume or size |
| voluptuous | pleasurable to the senses, sensuous |
| wan | very pale and sickly |
| witticism | a clever and witty remark |
| zenith | the highest point overhead, peak |
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