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English Vocab Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jovially | endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship |
| Interposed | intervene between parties; place or insert between one thing or another |
| Haughtily | disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant |
| Proprietary | of or relating to owner or ownership |
| Shiftlessness | lacking ambition or purpose; lazy |
| Flounced | go or move in an exaggeratedly impatient or angry manner |
| Gaudy | extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless |
| Permeate | spread throughout something; pervade |
| Innuendo | an indirect or subtle, usually derogatory |
| Prodigality | extravagant wastefulness; lavish abundance |
| Protruded | to stick out |
| Haggard | looking very thin and tired especially from great hunger, worry, or pain |
| Galoshes | a high overshoe worn especially in snow and slush |
| Balefully | threatening harm or evil |
| Sniffle | to say (something) while crying or sniffling |
| Asphyxiation | to cause (someone) to stop breathing and often to become unconscious and die |
| Sardonic | showing that you disapprove of or do not like someone or something |
| Coddle | to treat (someone) with too much care or kindness |
| Stealthy | quiet and secret in order to avoid being noticed |
| Pallid | very pale in a way that suggests poor health |
| Laudable | deserving praise (an idea/action/goal) |
| Meretricious | unattractive |
| Ineffable | too great or extreme to be described in words |
| Ramification | a consequence of an action or event, esp. when complex or unwelcome |
| Ingratiate | to bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them |
| Perturb | to make someone anxious or unsettled |
| Genial | having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner |
| Lethargic | sluggish and apathetic |
| Euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| Menagerie | a diverse or miscellaneous group |
| Extemporaneous | speaking or performing with little or no advance preparation |
| Countenance | calm facial expression; composure |
| Elude | to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery |
| Corpulent | large or bulky of body; portly; stout |
| Feign | To represent falsely; pretend to |
| Meretricious | alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions |
| Receded | to become more distant |
| Reproach | to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame |
| Vacuous | without contents; empty |
| Wan | Of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color |
| Impunity | Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| Accosted | To approach in an angry way |
| Insufferable | Very bad or unpleasant: too unpleasant to deal with or accept |
| Flambeaux | A flaming torch |
| Absconded | To go away or escape |
| Azure | Blue color of the sky |
| Flagon | A container of flutes that usually has a handle, spout, and lid |
| Niche | An environment that has all the things that a particular plant or animal needs in order to live |
| Rapier | A straight sword that has a narrow blade with sharp edges |
| Aperture | A hole or small opening in something |
| Incipient | beginning to exist or appear |
| Equivocate | to use unclear expressions |
| Pragmatist | a practical person |
| Mulish | of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate |
| Aversion | a strong feeling of not liking something |
| Clandestine | done in a private place or way: done secretly |
| Pernicious | causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed |
| Rein | the power to guide or control someone or something |
| Periodic | appearing at regular intervals of time |
| Forebrain | the front part of your brain |
| Implore | To beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy |
| Supercilious | Arrogant, scornful |
| Pasquinade | A satire or lampoon, especially one that ridicules a specific person, traditionally written and posted in a public place |
| Fortuitously | Happening by chance |
| Amorphous | Lacking definite form; having no specific shape |
| Interminable | Incapable of being terminated; unending |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner; wordy |
| Redolent | strongly reminiscent or suggestive of (something) |
| Pneumatic | Operated by air or by the pressure or exhaustion of air |
| Commensurate | Having a common measure |
| Erroneous | wrong; incorrect |
| Credulity | a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true |
| Impetuous | acting or done quickly and without thought or care; impulsive |
| Ascertain | find (something) out for certain; make sure of |
| Vacuous | having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless |
| Corpulent | fat; obese |
| Condescension | the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior |
| Jauntiness | having a buoyant or self-confident air |
| Dissension | a disagreement that leads to discord |
| Caterwauling | make a shrill howling or wailing noise |
| Harrow | To cause distress |
| Portentous | Done in a pompous (thinking you are better than anyone else) or overly solemn manner |
| Prig | A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner |
| Vicarious | Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person |
| Sagely | Having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment |
| Magnanimous | Very generous or forgiving, esp. toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself |
| Expostulate | To reason earnestly with someone in an effort to dissuade or correct |
| Truculent | Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant |
| Redolent | Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of (something) |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative, esp. on trivial matters |
| Ravenous | extremely hungry |
| Tranquil | not agitated; calm; peaceful |
| Abruptly | quickly, without warning |
| Forlorn | showing hopelessness |
| Stratum | people having the same social, economic or educational status |
| Ghastly | shocking; horror |
| Reverent | feeling or showing profound respect |
| Resentment | a feeling of deep and bitter anger |
| Transitory | lasting a very short time |
| Ceaseless | uninterrupted in time; never ending |
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