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Vocab Level H (9&10)
Stack #24825
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| beatitude | a state of perfect happiness or blessedness |
| bete noire | someone or something that one especially dislikes |
| bode | to be an omen of, to indicate by signs |
| dank | unpleasantly damp or wet |
| ecumenical | worldwide or universal in infulance or application |
| fervid | buring with enthusiasm or zeal, extremely heated |
| fetid | having an unpleasant or offensive odor |
| gargantuan | of immense size, volume, or capacity |
| heyday | the period of greatest power |
| incubus | a demon or evil spirit supposed to haunt human beings |
| infrastructure | a basic foundation or framework |
| inveigle | to entice, lure, or snare by flattery |
| kudos | the acclaim, persitge, or renown that comes as a result of some action or achievement |
| lagniappe | an extra or unexpected gift or gratuity |
| prolix | long-winded and wordy |
| protege | someone whose welfare, training, or career is under the partonage of an infuential person |
| prototype | an original pattern or model |
| sycophant | someone who attempts to win favors or advance himself by flattery or sevile behavior |
| tautology | needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivilent words |
| truckle | to yield or submit tamely or submissively |
| acumen | keenness of insight, quickness or accuracy of judgement |
| adjudicate | to act as judge in a matter |
| anachronism | a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other |
| apocryphal | of doubtful or questionable authenticity |
| disparity | a difference or inequality or age, rank, degree, amount, or quality |
| dissimulate | to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions |
| empirical | dervied from, dependant on, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment rather than by theory |
| flamboyant | highly elaborate or ornate |
| fulsome | offensively insincere or excessive |
| immolate | to kill as a sacrafice |
| imperceptible | extremely slight |
| lackey | a uniformed male servant, a servile follower |
| liaison | the contact or means of communication between groups |
| monolithic | characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity |
| mot juste | the most suitable or exact word or expression |
| nihilism | a total rejection of exisiting laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme radicalism |
| patrician | a member of the ruling class, person of high or notable social standing |
| propitiate | to make someone or something favorably inclined to oneself |
| sic | thus so, intentionally written so |
| sublimate | to redirect the energy of a biologial or instinctual impluse into a higher or more acceptable channel |
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