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Holmgren 1.2
Holmgren I Vocab Q2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| guise | style of dress as in a costume or disguise; external appearance; a superficial or artificial appearance of a quality or trait |
| tawdry tawdrily tawdriness | showy but cheap and of poor quality; arousing moral distaste and contempt |
| gullible gullibly gullibility | easily deceived or cheated; easily persuaded to believe something |
| erudite eruditely erudition | characterized by a love of knowledge for its own sake; a person devoted to the pursuit of learning |
| synchronize synchronic synchronically synchronicity | to cause to occur or operate at the same time |
| expostulate expostulatory expostulation | to express strong disapproval or disagreement to dissuade |
| deadpan | deliberately impassive or expressionless; giving no sign of emotional or personal commitment or involvement; say something amusing while affecting a serious manner |
| impetuous impetuously impetuousness | acting or done quickly and without thought or care; marked by force and violence of movement or action |
| purloin | to take wrongfully and often under circumstances that involve a breach of trust |
| affront | an action or remark that causes outrage or offence |
| credulous credulously credulousness credulity | ready or inclined to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| aloof aloofly aloofness | obviously uninvolved and uninterested, typically through distaste or indifference to the feelings, opinions, or interests of others |
| formidable formidably formidability formidableness | exciting fear, dread, or apprehension; tending to inspire awe or wonder usually by reason of notable size, quantity, superiority, or excellence |
| pang | a sudden sharp attack of physical or mental anguish |
| facade | a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect; the front of a building |
| lament lamentable lamentably lamentation | a passionate expression of grief or sorrow; a song, piece of music, or poem expressing grief or sorrow; an expression of regret or disappointment |
| contemptible contemptibly contempt | not worthy of respect, concern, or regard for being considered mean, base, or vile |
| consternation | fear resulting from the awareness of danger or in the face of something unexpected |
| insipid insipidly insipidness | lacking in qualities that interest, attract, stimulate, or challenge; lacking taste or savor to such a degree as to be unpleasing or unappetizing |
| allocate allocation | to divide and distribute something according to specific criteria such as proportion or equivalence |
| minion | a follower or underling of a powerful person or of an organization, especially a servile or unimportant one |
| apex | the highest or uppermost point of something such as of a building or mountain (concrete); the highest or culminating point as of a career or time period (abstract) |
| askew | not in a straight or level position; with contempt or disdain |
| forte | an individual’s area of strength or excellence |
| judiciously judicious judiciousness | marked by sound, usually unemotional, judgment |
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