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vocab week 7?
vocab week 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| secede | to withdraw from organization |
| refrain | to not do |
| extol | to praise highly |
| exalt | praise |
| laud | praise |
| commend | praise |
| acclaim | praise |
| accolade | praise ; praising words or statements |
| panegyrize | praise |
| panegyric | praising words |
| eulogize | praise for dead |
| eulogy | praising words |
| encomium | praising words |
| opprobrium | public shame or disgrace |
| opprobrious | disgraceful; deserving opprobrium |
| officious | overly helpful to annoying degree |
| fallacious | misleading |
| credulous | easily believing;gullible |
| inevitable | unavoidable |
| ineluctable | unavoidable |
| dubious | doubtful |
| skeptical | doubtful |
| dubiety | doubtfulness |
| indubitable | that cannot be doubted |
| redoubtable | fearful; causing fear |
| formidable | fearful |
| intrepid | fearless |
| dauntless | fearless |
| unflinching | fearless |
| trepidation | fear |
| consternation | fear w/ surprise |
| constellation | group of stars |
| versatile | having many talents, functions; easily adaptable |
| protean | quickly changing; versatile |
| parity | evenness |
| disparity | unevenness |
| disparate | uneven, unequal |
| fragile | weak |
| frail | weak |
| feeble | weak |
| foible | weak |
| brittle | weak |
| languid | weak |
| tenuous | weak |
| frailty | weakness |
| brittle | hard but easily broken |
| enfeeble | to weaken |
| languish | to weaken |
| attenuate | to weaken |
| undermine | to weaken |
| enervate | to weaken |
| static | w/o change or progress |
| consensus | general opinion or agreement among ppl |
| ennui | boredom |
| treadmill | boredom |
| tedium | boredom |
| superficial | 1. of or on surface 2. shallow in knowledge |
| dabble | to do things superficially; to study or engage in as a hobby |
| dilettante | one who dabbles w/ shallow knowledge |
| petty | 1. small; insignificant 2. narrow-minded |
| petty | small [unimportant; insignificant] |
| puny | small [unimportant; insignificant] |
| paltry | small [unimportant; insignificant] |
| picayune | small [unimportant; insignificant] of little value or importance |
| miniscale | small [unimportant; insignificant] |
| minute | small [unimportant; insignificant] |
| diminutive | small [unimportant; insignificant] |
| infinitesimal | small [unimportant; insignificant] |
| lilliputian | small [unimportant; insignificant] |
| colossal | huge |
| gargantuan | huge |
| titanic | huge |
| mammoth | huge |
| gigantic | huge |
| prodigious | huge |
| petty | narrow minded; limited in view |
| provincial | narrow minded; limited in view |
| insular | narrow minded; limited in view 2. of island |
| parochial | 1. of parish 2.narrow minded; limited in view 3. administered by church |
| sectarian | narrow minded; limited in view |
| hidebound | narrow minded; limited in view inflexible; ultra-conservative |
| doctrinaire | narrow minded; limited in view |
| parish | [catho] church district |
| disposition | personality; character |
| sullen | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| surly | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| inimical | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| cantankerous | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| splenetic | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| churlish | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| waspish | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| shrewish | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| fractious | ill-tempered; unfriendly |
| curmudgeon | a cantankerous person, esp. old person |
| shrew | a bad tempered, nagging wife |
| fractious | ill-tempered |
| fractional | of a fraction |
| fragmentary | incomplete |
| faction | division in politics; to form a faction |
| factious | fond of factioning; divisive |
| factioning | conflicting |
| facetious | humorously mocking |
| fatuous | foolish; silly |
| factitious | not genuine |
| stoic | 1. willing to endure pain, discomfort. 2. refraining from having pleasure. 3. abstemious; abstinent 4. extremely self-denying 5. moral such person |
| ascetic | 1. willing to endure pain, discomfort. 2. refraining from having pleasure. 3. abstemious; abstinent 4. extremely self-denying 5. moral such person |
| abstemious | sparing in eating or drinking |
| epicure | one who understands/ enjoys the pleasure of delicate eating or drinking |
| hedonist | pleasure seeker |
| hedonism | idea that pleasure is chief good |
| neologism | nearly coined word or expression; coining of new word or expression |
| volatile | 1. [person] quickly changing; unpredictable 2. [gas, alcohol] easily evaporating, flammable |
| callous | 1. [person] insensitive; not caring; paying no attention |
| regent | one who is appointed to perform the duties of a ruler |
| dearth | lack; scarcity |
| sycophant | flatterer; a flattering follower |
| wheedle | to flatter |
| coax | to flatter |
| fawn | to flatter |
| toady | to flatter |
| cajole | to flatter to ask someone to do something by flattering opp. browbeat |
| blandish | to flatter |
| ingratiate | to flatter |
| adulate | to flatter |
| adulatory | flattering |
| sycophantic | flattering |
| obsequious | flattering |
| subservient | flattering |
| servile | flattering |
| toadyism | flattery |
| cajolery | flattery |
| blandishment | flattery |
| ingratiation | flattery |
| adulation | flattery |
| sycophancy | flattery |
| obsequiousness | flattery |
| subservience | flattery |
| servility | flattery |
| soft soap | flattery |
| grateful | thankful |
| ungrateful | not thankful |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| gratitude | thankfulness |
| ingratitude | no thankfulness |
| gratify | to give satisfaction to |
| gratification | satisfaction |
| servile | 1. of or like a slave 2. flattering |
| balm | consolation |
| tribute | words of admiration |
| tribulation | trouble |
| inter | to bury |
| inhume | to bury |
| disinter | to dig out |
| exhume | to dig out |
| excavate | to dig out |
| delve | to dig out to study or research thoroughly |
| unearth | to dig out |
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