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Lesson 14

vocab

TermDefinition
Adulterate To make impure by adding lesser substances; to corrupt
Animosity Harsh feelings, enmity resentment, hatred syn: Animus, antagonism, antipathy, enmity
Apocryphal Of doubtful origin or authenticity
Avarice greed for wealth syn: Cupidity
Coalesce to merge, to fuse, to join, or to unite syn: amalgamate, commingle
Collaborate to work together
cryptic mysterious, secret syn: abstruse, ambiguous, enigmatic, obscure, recondite
Desultory jumping around, aimless, random
Dissipation wasteful spending, squandering
Edifying instructing and improving spiritually or morally
Equivocate to attempt to lie, to mislead, or to hide the truth syn: palter, prevaricate
Espousing Marrying, givings one loyalty; adopting or embracing a cause
Hedonist One who speaks pleasure at the sole aim in life
Indefatigable Tireless, incapable of being fatigued
Interminable Having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted
Naive unsophisticated; inexperienced Syn: natural, artless, ingenuous
Parody Humorous or ridiculous imitation Syn: Burlesque, caricature, travesty
Peripheral on the edge, not important
Portent a sign or forewarning
Prodigious extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree, great in size, enormous *Think Costco
Profane Showing contempt toward sacred things *think profanity = bad wordslj
respite a rest, a delay, a period of relief
Sordid Filthy, foul syn: abject, ignorable, mean
Surfeited Fed or suppled to excess Syn: cloyed, glutted, gorged, palled, sated, satiated *Fe in it sounds like fed
Trifling not significant, frivolous *Remember a fling is not important
Created by: jerrodwalla
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