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Week 2 Vocab Jamail
week 2 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hiatus | break, interruption, vacation |
| impudent | arrogant, audacious |
| bellicose | warlike, aggressive |
| to carp | to find fault with, to complain constantly |
| defunct | no longer existing, dead, extinct |
| eminent | celebrated, distinguished; outstanding, towering |
| to espouse | to support or advocate |
| to foment | to arouse or incite |
| hoary | very old; whitish or gray from age |
| inchoate | imperfectly formed or formulated |
| to castigate | to punish, to chastise, to criticize severely |
| diatribe | bitter verbal attack |
| to emulate | to copy, to imitate |
| excruciating | agonizing, intensely painful |
| incipient | beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage |
| catharsis | purification, cleansing |
| diffidence | shyness, lack of confidence |
| to encumber | to hinder, to burden, to restrict motion |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected |
| extraneous | irrelevant, unrelated, unnecessary |
| imminent | something that is going to happen very soon |
| cumbersome | awkward, difficult to carry, burdensome |
| incumbent | person in political office running for re-election; something that you have to do |