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Honors English 10
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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abet | to assist or support (someone) in the achievement of a purpose (typically in wrongdoing) |
anachronism | a person or thing that is chronologically out of place |
baroque | characterized by grotesqueness, extravagance, complexity, or flamboyance |
chicanery | deception by an artful subterfuge or sophistry; trickery |
coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
corpulent | having a large, bulky body; obese |
equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches); sprout |
parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources; thrift |
dichotomy | division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups |
emolument | the returns or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
felicitous | suitable or right and expressing well intended thought or feeling |
hapless | having no luck; unfortunate |
inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation; incipient |
juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
quiescent | causing no trouble or symptoms |
sagacity | the quality of being discerning, sound in judgement, and farsighted; wisdom |
supercilious | cooly or patronizingly haughty |
vacuous | Having or demonstrating a lack of thought or intelligence |
abscond | To secretly depart or hide oneself |
anathema | something or someone that one vehemently dislikes |