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Giggles vocab 45-54
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Malicious | characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm. |
| Bibliophilic | a person who loves or collects books, especially as examples of fine or unusual printing, binding, or the like. |
| dapper | Typically of a man- Neat and trim in appearance |
| Comeliness | Attractive in appearance |
| Derision | Contemptuous ridicule or mockery |
| Malevolent | Having or showing a wish to do evil to others |
| Devious | showing a skillful use of underhanded tactics to achieve goals |
| Insecure | Not confident or assured |
| Stickler | a person who insists on a certain quality or type of behavior |
| Manifested | Display or show by one’s acts or appearance |
| Lisped | a speech defect in which s is pronounced like th in thick and z is pronounced like th in this. |
| Adroit | Clever or skillful |
| Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. |
| surreptitiously | acting in a stealthy way |
| Dumbfounded | greatly astonish or amazed |
| Antics | Foolish, outrageous, or amusing in behavior |
| Pondered | think about (something) carefully, especially before making a decision or reaching a conclusion |
| Discombobulated | disconcert or confuse (someone) |
| Entreated | ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something |
| Rejoined | Join together again |
| Regaled | Entertain or amuse someone with talk |
| Apparent | Clearly visible or understood |
| Bizarre | very strange or unusual, especially so as to cause interest or amusement |
| Beseeched | ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat |
| Implore | beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something |
| Affable | friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to |
| Shoddy | badly made or done |
| Stern | serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline |
| Topple | overbalance or become unsteady and fall slowly |