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Hon. English 2 (7)
Vocabulary 15-16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| noxious | injurious |
| connive | conspire |
| chutzpah | nerve; audacity |
| liege | king |
| odium | hatred |
| crass | crude |
| hypercritical | faultfinding |
| fallacy | a mistaken notion; a misconception |
| complacent | confident |
| befuddle | fluster |
| pandemonium | chaos |
| parsimonious | cheap |
| verbose | prolix |
| laudable | admirable |
| indiscreet | flagrant |
| pique | irritate |
| linguistics | the scientific study of structure, sounds, and meaning of language |
| plebian | peasant; base |
| precious | advanced |
| predatory | pillaging |
| prowess | power |
| pugnacious | combative |
| purloin | to steal |
| pusillanimous | timid |
| quell | calm |
| quixotic | very idealistic |
| rabble | riffraff |
| rabid | fervid |
| raconteur | a person skilled at telling stories |
| vindictive | vengeful |