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ENGL 290 (risden)
list of the 100 words and 50 foreign phrases for engl 290 with risden
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ambiguous | (adj) having more than one meaning Latin |
| ambivalence | (adj) having mixed feelings German |
| appositive | standing in juxtaposition to |
| bombast | (noun) high-sounding language with little meaning Old French |
| bibliophile | lover of books |
| cadence | rhythmic flow of sounds or words |
| chauvinism | excessive or prejudiced loyalty to ones own culture |
| aberration | departure from the normal course |
| analogy | a comparison between two things |
| anomaly | irregularity |
| cogent | clear, logical, and convincing |
| cohort | a group of people with a common interest or goal |
| concomitant | happening at the same time |
| connoisseur | expert or lover of something |
| cacophony | bad or chaotic sound |
| civility | courtesy |
| cultivate | grow and nurture |
| cynic | a pessimistic person |
| dearth | a lack |
| debonair | confident, stylish, having sophisticated charm |
| desultory | exhibiting inconsistency and randomness |
| didactic | teaching or preaching |
| digression | a turn off from the main topic |
| dogmatic | unthinking insistence on the truth of certain laws |
| draconian | unusually excessively harsh or cruel (dragon like) |
| effigy | crude representation of a disliked person |
| empirical | derived from experience |
| euphemism | a way to gloss over something unpleasant |
| exuberance | extreme energy and excitement |
| fastidious | overly meticulous |
| felicity | happiness |
| garrulous | excessively talkative |
| grotesque | unnatural |
| holocost | horrific destruction usually involving burning |
| hyperbole | exageration |
| hypothetical | an unproven idea |
| improvident | lacking forsight |
| incarnadine | red |
| insinuate | suggest or hint something (bad) in an indirect way |
| isthmus | a strip of land connecting to other pieces of land with sea on both sides |
| jeremiad | prolonged lamentation |
| keen | interested in or to be fond of |
| liason | a go between or meeting |
| maudlin | excessively sentimental |
| melancholy | sad |
| narcolepsy | a condition in which one is predispositioned to fall asleep whenever in a relaxing situation |
| obdurate | unmoved by persuasion to change ones opinion |
| obtrussive | getting in the way |
| occlude | to block |
| melancholy | sad |
| narcolepsy | a condition in which one is predispositioned to fall asleep whenever in a relaxing situation |
| obdurate | unmoved by persuasion to change ones opinion |
| obtrussive | getting in the way |
| occlude | to block |
| ostentation | excessive decoration |
| palpate | examine by touch |
| palpitate | pulsate rapidly |
| pendantic | overly concerned with detail |
| perfunctory | performed out of obligation |
| perplex | to confuse |
| philistine | indifferent to intellect or beauty |
| platitude | a trite remark |
| plethora | an abundance |
| poignant | emotionally pointed |
| pragmatic | practical |
| pretentious | pretending to knowledge or skill one does not have |
| proclivity | tendency |
| proliteriat | Working class |
| promenade | stroll |
| propensity | tendency |
| prostrate | lying flat on the floor |
| provenance | origin |
| pusillanimous | cowardly |
| quaint | charmingly unusual |
| quixotic | unpredictably mad |
| rapprochment | reestablishment of harmonious relations |
| refulgent | shining brightly |
| reproach | scold |
| requisite | required |
| sanguine | cheerfully optimistic |
| scruple | moral or optimistic belief |
| scrutinize | inspect closely |
| scurrilous | worthy of scorn |
| sententiousness | self-righteousness in speech,morals, or beliefs |
| simper | silly smile |
| speculate | to consider energetically or reflect mentally |
| swarthy | dark |
| tenacity | determination |
| tertiary | 3rd level |
| truculent | cruelly harsh |
| ubiquitous | everywhere |
| unabridged | complete |
| voracious | hungry for something (food,drink,knowledge) |
| voluptuary | person with excessive love of pleasure |
| welkin | shy |
| Weltshmertz | world weariness |
| xenophobia | fear of foreigners |
| yeoman | a person of the lower noble class,higher "servant" class, lower ranking officer |
| yarmulke | jewish ceremonial cap |
| zephyr | gentle mild breeze from the west |
| zoomorphic | having the form of an animal |
| whimsy | pleasant playfulness |
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