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Dr. Horne Vocab 1-5
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Doleful | Sad; melancholy |
| Elusive | hard to grasp |
| Imminent | likely to happen; threatening |
| Mastiff | a large dog |
| Peruse | to read carefully |
| Preclude | to prevent something |
| Redolent | fragrant; having a specific smell |
| Surrepitious | stealthy; accomplished by secret; trying to avoid being noticed |
| Viable | able to be done; worth doing; practicable |
| Zealous | enthusiastic |
| Aloof | detached; indifferent |
| Audacious | bold, daring, fearless |
| Benificent | kindly, charitable, producing good effects |
| Candor | honesty of expression |
| Didactic | excessively instructive |
| Eminent | celebrated; distinguished; outstanding |
| Feign | to pretend; to give a false impression to; to invent falsely |
| Gregarious | outgoing; sociable |
| Haughty | arrogant and conscending |
| Incisive | perceptive; penetrating |
| Lethargy | indifferent activity |
| Maelstrom | whirlpool; turmoil; agitated state of mind |
| Mollify | to calm or make less severe |
| Novice | apprentice; beginner |
| Oblivious | unaware; beginner |
| Pallid | lacking color or liveliness |
| Ravenous | extremely hungry |
| Spurn | to reject or refuse contemptuously; to scorn |
| Tenuous | weak; insubstantial |
| Undulating | moving in waves |
| Adulating | excessively high praise |
| Ambigous | uncertain, subject, to multiple interpretations |
| Banal | trite; overly common |
| Castigate | to punish, chastise, criticize severely |
| Defenential | respectful and polite in a submissive way |
| Equanimity | calmness, composure |
| Fidelity | loyalty |
| Goad | to prod or urge; to provoke |
| Harbinger | precursor; sign of something to come |
| Ignominious | disgraceful and dishonorable |
| Lithe | moving and bending with ease; graceful |
| Morose | gloomy, sullen, surly |
| Nettle | to irritate |
| Obdurate | stubborn |
| Palpable | obvious, real, tangible |
| Penchent | inclination |
| Raucous | harsh sounding; boisterous |
| Sallow | sickly yellow in color |
| Tawdry | cheap, showy |
| Venerable | respected because of age |
| Amicable | friendly; agreeable |
| Awry | crooked; askew, amiss |
| Beguile | to deceive; to mislead; to charm |
| Clandestine | secretive |
| Discern | to perceive something obscure |
| Ethreal | not earthly; spiritual; delicate |
| Foreboding | dark sense of evil to come |
| Grovel | to humble oneself in a demeaning way |
| Homage | public honor and respect |
| Indolent | habitually lazy; idle |
| Luminous | bright; brilliant; glowing |
| Maudlin | overly sentimental |
| Misantrhope | person who hates human beings |
| Naunce | shade of meaning |
| Obstinate | stubborn |
| Perfunctory | done in a routine way without much care or attention; indifferent |
| Rife | widespread; prevalent; abdundant |
| Surmise | to make an educated guess |
| Trite | shallow; superficial |
| Usurp | to seize by force |
| Animosity | hatred; hostility |
| Appease | to satisfy; to calm; to pacify; to plactate |
| Boisterous | rowdy; loud; understrained |
| Contentious | quarrelsome; disagreeable; belligerent |
| Disdain | to regard with scorn and contempt |
| Exhort | to urge or incite by strong appeals |
| Furtive | secret; stealthy |
| Garrulous | very talkative |
| Hackneyed | worn out by overuse; unoriginal |
| Implicit | implied; not directly expressed |
| Latent | present but hidden; potential |
| Munificent | generous |
| Nomadic | moving from place to place |
| Obsequious | overly submissive; brownnosing |
| Parsimoniouis | stinginess; misery |
| Piety | devoutness; religiousness |
| Reprove | to criticize or correct |
| Seminal | influential; groundbreaking |
| Transient | temporary; short-lived; fleeting |
| Voracious | desiring or consuming great quantities |
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