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finals vocab
vocabulary words for final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sordid | morally ignoble or base vile |
| unassuming | modest unpretentious |
| emancipated | not constrained or restricted by custom tradition superstition etc |
| chide | to express disapproval of scold |
| commensurate | corresponding in amount magnitude or degree |
| deplore | to regret deeply or strongly |
| standardized | to bring or make of an established standard size weight quality strength or the like |
| jurisdiction | the right power or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies |
| notorious | widely and unfavorably known |
| travesty | a grotesque or debased likeness or imitation |
| stint | to be frugal get along on a scanty allowance |
| grotesque | odd or unnatural in shape appearance or character fantastically ugly or absurd bizarre |
| dissipate | to scatter in various directions |
| noxious | harmful or injurious to health or physical well being |
| espouse | to make ones own adopt or embrace as a cause |
| precarious | dependent on circumstances beyond ones control; uncertain unstable insecure |
| distraught | distracted deeply agitated |
| connoisseur | a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art paticuarliiy one of the fine arts or in matter of taste |
| idiosyncrasy | a characteristic habit mannerism or the like that is so peculiar to an individual |