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sem2 final-Brunner
This is all vocab words for Mrs Brunners Semester 2 final 2009
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vacillate | to waver, undulate, change your mind |
| solstice | when the sun is farthest from equater |
| exult | praise, venerate, |
| impertinent | ntrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil: a brash, impertinent youth. |
| design | to create |
| marsupial | animal w/ pouch |
| bamboozle | confuse |
| alliteration | the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid. |
| voracious | hunger/greed |
| tumult | violent noisy commotion |
| fallacy | False in nature |
| eclectric | Selecting or choosing from various sources |
| decorum | proper bahavivior |
| embargo | to halt shipments to a country |
| undulate | to waver, vacilate |
| quandary | bamboozled, confused |
| lax | relaxed, comfortable, not strict |
| coalesce | unite into one |
| blasphemy | something that goes against something sacred |
| credulous | gullible |
| static | not moving |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| concise | to the point, not verbose |
| flagrant | obvious |
| dubious | credulous, willing to believe too redily |
| atrophy | degeneration over time, rotting. |
| volatile | fleeting, fluctuating rapidly |
| stoic | philosophy that you should be compliant and have no emotions |
| respite | break, rest |
| refute | to prove to be falacous |
| scrupulous | sticking to your morals very strictly |
| pivotal | having vital importance |
| remorse | deep and painful regret of wrongdoing |
| indulgent | submitting to your wants or others |
| tangible | able to touch it, real |
| jeopordy | in trouble, in peril or danger |
| amity | frendship |
| deplete | to exhaust, (resources) |
| animosity | tension |
| slander | to say something false of someone else |
| virtuoso | talented at one thing (arts) |
| brevity | contrite, short, to the point |
| benefactor | someone who donates money to someone else |
| idiom | doesn't make sense except at a local level |
| hedonistic | serving yourself, greedy |
| peripheral | on the side, not really relevant, but slightly related. |
| abstract | theoretical, difficult to understand |
| futile | inevitable |
| enigmatic | cryptic, hard to grasp, esoteric |
| relevent | pertaining to the current subject |
| diverse | having a variety |
| inevitalbe | futile, going to happen no matter what |
| disdain | to look or treat upon with contempt, despise, scorn |
| denounce | to condemn publicly |
| revere | to exult, respect |
| candid | honest, not prejudiced |
| apathy | not caring |
| indifferent | not taking sides |
| obscure | in the way, unclear |
| impartial | indifferent, unbiased |
| objective | going for goals |
| discriminate | to make a distinction between two things |
| discern | to tell the difference, uncover (discern the meaning of the sentience) |
| temperate | mild in temperature/personality |
| eccentric | weird, wacky |
| provincial | local |
| ambiguous | vague, unclear |
| fanatic | very enthusiastic |
| rescind | withdrawal, nullify |
| innocuous | innocent, doesn't have any harm |
| paucity | lack of |
| pedestrian | normal, someone who's walking |
| subtle | cunning, crafty |
| enhance | to increase, make more better, add on |
| zealous | very enthusiastic, diligent, fanatic |
| retract | to be able to fold/draw back into itself |
| vilify | to defame |
| venerate | honor, exult, revere |
| pretentious | supercilious, full of yourself |
| nostalgia | longing for times in the past |
| irascible | irritable |
| heed | listen to |
| hinderance | gets in the way |
| merger | two companies coming together |
| saccharine | too sweet |
| stanza | paragraph of a poem |
| Didactic | educational, morally instructive |
| disparate | different |
| disparage | belittle, speak w/ discredit |
| ephemeral | lasts short time, fleeting |
| compliant | taking orders |
| prosiac | conman, dull, benal |
| expedient | fast |
| fastidious | exessivly critical |
| belligerent | no respect, argumentitive |
| astute | keen, clever |
| languish | feebly, relax |
| censure | strong disagreement |
| stagnation | not changing |
| mitigate | to lesson |
| credibility | believability; plausibility |
| notoriety | infamous |
| adamant | inflexible |
| bovine | resembling ox/cow |
| martyred | constantly suffering |
| purloined | wrongfully stolen |
| pinoined | disabled by binding of the arms |
| acquiesce | agree, but don't like it |
| ameliorate | to make better |
| taciturn | silent |
| efface | erase, obliterate |
| elusive | hiding, escaping grasp |
| arrogant | cocky |
| elaborate | very detailed, explaining |
| apprehensive | cautious |
| preclude | exclude |
| congenial | nice, agreeable |
| orthodox | normal |
| contrite | sorry |
| brawn | strong |
| volition | choosing, volenteering |
| dissent | dissagree |
| conspicuous | obvious |
| ascetic | leads simple life for riligion |
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