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Warm Ups 25-30
Brenham Eng III Warm Ups 25-30
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| shrew | a mouse like animal that eats insects; a bad-tempered, nagging woman |
| lucrative | profitable; producing money or wealth |
| garrulous | talking too much, especially about unimportant things |
| abridged | to shorten the number of words; to condense |
| verbose | wordy; using or containing more words than necessary |
| invokes | to call upon a higher power for assistance; to ask or appeal for; to call forth |
| finality | the quality or condition of being complete or settled; conclusiveness |
| impromptu | without previous thought or preparation |
| supercilious | showing scorn and haughtiness; disdainful; aloof or conceited |
| emendations | a correction; a change in a written text |
| intangible | not capable of being touched; not material; v ague or not easily defined |
| idiomatic | characteristic of a particular language |
| expletive | an oath or exclamation, usually profane; a word with no meaning of its own, used to complete the pattern of a phrase or sentence |
| laconic | using few words; brief in speech or expression |
| bolstered | a long narrow pillow; anything used as a support; to prop up, support, or reinforce |
| reciprocates | to give, do or take in return; to move with a backward-forward motion |
| wistful | full of longing; yearning; wishful |
| furor | frenzied anger; rage a public uproar or outburst of indignation; great enthusiasm for |
| subterfuge | a trick, excuse, or deception used to escape something unpleasant |
| tawdry | gaudy; showy and cheap |
| abridged | shorten, abstract, condense, reduce, summarize |
| emendations | change, correction, editing, revisal |
| finality | completeness, entirety, finish, perfection, terminality |
| garrulous | babbling, blabbermouth, chatty, verbose, wordy |
| impromptu | unrehearsed, improvised, ad-lib |
| invokes | appeal, beg, entreat, request, summon |
| lucrative | advantageous, fruitful, profitable, worthwhile |
| shrew | biddy, nag, she-devil, vixen winch |
| supercilious | bossy, cocky, condescending, haughty, proud |
| verbose | garrulous, loquacious, redundant, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative |
| bolstered | aid, boost, reinforce, strengthen, support |
| expletives | curse, cuss word, interjection, oath |
| furor | ado, commotion, craze, mania, uproar |
| idiomatic | colloquial, dialectal, local, natural, vernacular |
| intangible | abstract, elusive, hypothetical, imperceptible, invisible |
| laconic | brief, compact, concise, crisp, curt, terse |
| reciprocate | barter, correspond, match, return, trade |
| subterfuge | artifice, bluff, device, hoax, ploy, trick |
| tawdry | blatant, brazed, crude, offensive sleazy |
| wistful | contemplative, desirous, dreamy, nostalgic, thoughtful |
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