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Vocab 2 Long II
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Wicked or cruel; exceedingly bad | Atrocious |
| To express or declare firmly | Assert |
| A self-evident truth | Axiom |
| Showing keen judgement; crafty | Astute |
| Independence | Autonomy |
| To surround in order to capture; to crowd around | Beseige |
| An uproar, confusion | Bedlam |
| To cheat or deceive | Beguile |
| A marshy inlet or the outlet of a river or lake in the parts of the southern US | Bayou |
| Mild and pleasant; soothing | Balmy |
| A prejudice or personal tendency; a line slanting diagonally across the weave of a fabric | bias |
| To spoil by poor work | Botch |
| The middle class. | Bourgeois |
| To straddle | Bestride |
| To violate | Breach |
| Of or like a dog | Canine |
| A meal set out so that people may serve themselves; a piece of dining room furniture | Buffet |
| Unfeeling; thick and hardened | Callous |
| To complain | Carp |
| Insincere talk | Cant |