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7th grade Alps Vocab
hard vocab i mess up from blue book lists #30-40
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vacuous | stupidly empty of ideas |
| thanatopsis | view of death |
| sesquipedalion | very long (words) |
| supercilious | scornful |
| exegesis | critical interpretation |
| internecine | mutualy destructive |
| vide | look |
| soporific | sleep-inducing |
| declaim | cry down |
| demotic | of the common people |
| metonymy | association |
| interdiction | prohibition |
| syllogism | three-part deduction |
| synoptic | general in view |
| apostasy | desertion of principle |
| epigram | witty comment |
| retort | swift reply |
| monism | doctrine that reality is one |
| prolix | tediously wordy |
| imponderable | difficult to ponder |
| lycanthrope | werewolf |
| abase | to lower |
| obiter dictum | passing remark |
| patrician | aristocratic |
| ignominious | disgeaceful |
| ratiocination | methodical thinking |
| monolithic | massive and uniform |
| maladroit | clumsy |
| assonance | vowel repetition |
| narcissism | self-infatuation |
| transmogrify | chnage form |
| obsequeous | serviley following |
| altercation | heated dispute |
| hypothecate | pledge as security |
| sentenious | full of maxims |
| protagonist | leading person |
| lyssophobia | fear of insanity |
| paterfamilias | male head of a family |
| terra incognita | unknown land |