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TGD vocabb
The God Delusion Vocab II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| emasculated | To deprive strength or vigor; weaken; effeminate |
| provenance | place of origin; derivation |
| codify | to arrange systematically |
| fatuous | foolish or inane esp. in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly |
| formidable | arousing apprehension, fear, dread, or alarm; inspiring admiration, awe or wonder; difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat. |
| truculent | expressing bitter opposition; pugnacious; scathing; aggressively hostile |
| veridical | veracious; coinciding with future events or apparently unknowable present realities |
| trepidation | a state of alarm or dread; apprehension; trembling or quivering movement |
| pithy | brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; terse; full of vigor or meaning |
| vitiate | to reduce the value or impair the quality of; to corrupt morally; to make ineffective |
| quixotic | extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; idealistic w/o regard to practicality; capricous; impulsive |
| guise | general external appearance; semblance |
| spurious | not genuine, authentic, or true; false |
| masquerade | facad; pretense; false outward show |
| infelicity | awkwardness, inaptness, or inappropriateness; as of |
| cadence | Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory; A falling inflection of the voice, as at the end of a sentence. |