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MAT VocRev 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| turpitude | baseness; corruption; depravity |
| aquiline | hooked; like an eagle |
| baleful | menacing; harmful |
| jezebel | a shameless, brazen woman |
| lethargic | slow moving; sluggish |
| arid | dull; unimaginative; extremely dry |
| balmy | soothing; mild |
| ophidiophobia | the fear of snakes |
| impugn | to attack. Especially as false or lacking integrity |
| obloquy | (1) abusive language; (2) bad repute |
| apocalyptic | of, or relating to, a revelation or discovery |
| benign | gracious; favorable; not threatening to health ANTONYM: malignant |
| junk | (1) trash; something that is not worth saving; (2) a type of Chinese ship |
| guffaw | a loud, boisterous burst of laughter |
| azure | sky blue |
| feasible | practical; workable |
| bumptious | aggressive and assertive in an offensive way ANTONYM: shy; self-effacing |
| sordid | wretched; vile; foul |
| resilient | able to recover easily from hardship or misfortune; flexible |
| uxoricide | the murder of one's wife |
| napery | table linens |
| furtive | sly; shifty |
| impassive | apathetic; expressionless |
| incorrigible | unruly; delinquent |
| roseate | overoptimistic; cheerful |
| ocher | earthy yellow or red |
| arrogate | to claim or seize without justification; to usurp |
| soporific | marked by, or causing, sleepiness or lethargy; drowsy |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| evanescent | fleeting; hardly visible; ephemeral |
| noisome | offensive; harmful |
| obsequious | obedient; subservient |
| chimera | (1) a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent; (2) illusion or mental fabrication |
| compulsion | an impulse to perform an irrational act |
| hypothetical | based on conjecture; conditional |
| vilify | to slander; to verbally abuse; to defame |
| prognosticate | to forecast; to prophesy |
| fastidious | hard to please; fickle |
| relume | to light or light again; to rekindle; to reestablish |
| marred | injured; blemished; damaged |
| zealot | one who is enthusiastic, sometimes fanatical, about a cause |
| jetty | a projection or structure extending into a body of water |
| endue | to provide; to endow |
| fulminate | to denounce; to send forth invectives; to explode |
| ungulate | hooflike; regerring to hoofed animals |
| fealty | allegiance |
| allegory | a symbolic expression or description |
| cache | (1) a hiding place; (2) something hidden in a secure place |
| harbinger | someone or something that foreshadows what is to come |
| feckless | worthless; feeble |
Created by:
markda714
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