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English Vocab
Vocabulary for lesson 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adulterate | To make impure by adding lesser substances; to corrupt |
| Animosity | Harsh feelings, enmity, resentment, hatred |
| Apocryphal | Of doubtful origin or authenticity, not genuine |
| Avarice | Greed for wealth |
| Coalesce | To merge, to fuse, to join, or to unite |
| Collaborate | To work together |
| Cryptic | Mysterious, secret |
| Desultory | Jumping around, aimless, random |
| Dissipation | Wasteful spending, squandering |
| Edifying | Instructing and improving spiritually or morally |
| Equivocate | To attempt to lie, to mislead, or to hide the truth |
| Espousing | Marrying, giving one's loyalty; adopting or embracing a cause |
| Hedonist | One who seeks pleasure as the sole aim in life |
| Indefatigable | Tireless, incapable of being fatigued |
| Interminable | Having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted |
| Naive | Unsophisticated; inexperienced |
| Parody | Humorous or ridiculous imitation |
| Peripheral | On the edge, not important |
| Portent | A sign of forewarning |
| Prodigious | Extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree, great in size, enormous |
| Profane | Showing contempt toward sacred things |
| Respite | A rest, a delay, a period of relief |
| Sordid | Filthy, foul |
| Surfeited | Fed or supplied to excess |
| Trifling | Not significant, frivolous |