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Vocab 4-6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| idiosyncracy | a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify |
| hallow | to set apart as holy or sacred; sanctify, consecrate, to honor greatly, to revere |
| garner | to acquire as the result of effort; gather and store away as for future use |
| fiat | an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness |
| fecund | fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive |
| esoteric | intended for or understood by only a select few, private secret |
| ignominy | shame and disgrace |
| mundane | earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs |
| nuance | a subtle or slight variation |
| overweening | conceited, presumptuous, excessive, immoderate |
| penchant | a strong attraction or inclination |
| reputed | according to reputation or general belief, having widespread acceptance and good reputation |
| sophistry | reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy |
| sumptuous | costly, rich, magnificent |
| ubiquitous | present or existing everywhere |
| atrophy | the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away |
| bastion | a fortified place, stronghold |
| concord | a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity, a treaty, pact, covenant |
| consummate | complete or perfect in the highest degree to bring to a state of completion or perfection |
| disarray | disorder, confusion, to throw into disorder |
| exigency | urgency, pressure, urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency |
| flotsam | floating debris, homeless, impoverished people |
| frenetic | frenzied, highly agitated |
| glean | to gather bit by bit, to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers |
| grouse | a game bird, to complain |
| incarcerate | to imprison, confine, jail |
| incumbent | obligatory, required, one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of |
| jocular | joking, jolly, jesting |
| ludicrous | ridiculous, laughable, absurd |
| mordant | biting or caustic in thought, manner or style; sharply or bitterly harsh |
| nettle | a prickly or stinging plant; to arouse displeasure, impatience or anger; to vex or irritate severely |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money, of or related to money |
| pusillanimous | contemptibly cowardly or mean spirited |
| recumbent | in a reclining position, lying down in the posture of one sleeping or resting |
| stratagem | a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end |
| abject | degraded, base, contemptible, cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved |
| agnostic | one who believes that nothing can be known about God; skeptic, w/out faith, skeptical |
| complicity | involvement in wrongdoing; the sate of being an accomplice |
| derelict | someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned |
| diatribe | a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| effigy | a crude image of a despised person |
| equity | the state or quality just, fair or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property |
| travesty | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex |
| inane | silly, empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | the act of accusing; a formal accusation |
| indubitable | certain, not to be doubted or denied |
| intermittent | stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
| moot | open to discussion, and debate, unresolved, to bring up for discussion, a hypothetical law case argued by students |
| motif | a principal idea, feature, theme or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design |
| neophyte | a new convert, beginner, novice |
| perspicacity | keenness in observing and understanding |
| plenary | complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members |
| surveillance | a watch kept over a person; careful, close and disciplined observation |
| sylvan | pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest |
| testy | easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
| acuity | sharpness of the mind or senses |
| delineate | to portray, sketch or describe in accurate and vivid detail, to represent pictorially |
| enervate | to weaken or lessen the moral or physical vigor of, enfeeble, hamstring |
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