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MAT VocRev 09
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| delusion | a deception; a false psychotic belief regarding oneself or others |
| doctrinaire | dogmatic |
| gorgon | one of three snake-haired sisters whose glance turned the beholder into stone |
| motility | movement |
| anomaly | an aberration; a deviation; an irregularity |
| adulambrate | to intimate or foreshadow; to obscure |
| pseudonym | a fictitious or pen name |
| bromidic | lacking originality; trite |
| inanition | a loss of vitality from lack of food and water |
| forbear | an ancestor or forefather |
| quell | to suppress |
| ontogeny | the development of an organism |
| hirsute | hairy ANTONYM: glabrous |
| obscurant | tending to make obscure |
| magenta | deep purplish red |
| meretricious | attractive only on the surface; superficial; pretentious |
| potlatch | (1) a ceremonial feast, with gifts, ofnorthwest coast Indians; (2) a festival or celebration |
| "-phile" | a love or afiniry for (e.g. philogyny: love of men) |
| peripatetic | wandering; itinerant |
| jejune | immature; juvenile |
| hermenuetics | the study of principles of interpretation (e.g. in the Bible) |
| deprecate | to play down; to belittle |
| depredate | to lay waste; to plunder |
| lurid | (1) gruesome; shocking; (2) ghastly pale |
| tangerine | a deep orange to almost scarlet mandarin orange |
| kinetic | related to motion |
| obfuscate | to confuse ANTONYM: clarify |
| raze | to demolish completely; to destroy |
| axiom | a self-evident rule or truth; a qidely accepted saying |
| didactic | intend to teach, moralize, or preach |
| buffoon | a clown or ludicrous figure; someone who amuses with jokes or tricks |
| germane | closely related; relevant; fitting |
| alacrity | liveliness or eagerness; readiness ANTONYM: lassitude |
| virtuoso | one who is highly skilled in the practice of an art, especially music |
| gamut | the entire range |
| galvanize | (1) to stimulate or excite; (2) to coat with zinc |
| olfactory | relating to the sense of smell |
| quintessence | the essence of something in its most concentrated form; the urest representative from a certain category |
| flagon | a flask with a handle and lid |
| conjoin | to join or act together |
| depraved | morally corrupt or evil |
| fetid | having an offensive ordor |
| hackneyed | overused; trite; commonplace |
| cynosure | the center of interest |
| doggerel | comic, loose verse |
| gulch | a deep pit; a ravine |
| parry | (1) to ward off; (2) to escape by dodging |
| diffident | shy; lacking in self-confidence |
| flag | to weaken; to slow down |
| igneous | referring to rock formed from molten magme; volcanic |
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markda714
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