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Word List Day 20
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| elicit | draw out |
| serration | having a toothed edge |
| dainty | pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please |
| caustic | biting sarcastic |
| highbrow | (person) with superior tastes |
| odious | repulsive; hateful |
| abjure | promise or swear to give up |
| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
| tyro | a beginner |
| inane | silly; senseless |
| dilate | speak comprehensively become wider large |
| deprave | make morally bad;corrupt |
| denigrate | blacken; belittle; sully; defame |
| duplicity | deliberate deception |
| protracted | prolonged |
| taut | tightly stretched |
| turbid | muddy having the sediment stirred up |
| fledgling | an inexperienced person. |
| punctilious | Meticulous |
| bellicose | inclined to fighting |
| ignominious | shameful; dishonorable; undignified; disgraceful |
| interim | as an installment |
| avid | eager; greedy |
| florid | very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face) |
| malign | to speak harmful untruths about someone |
| inundate | flood cover by overflowing |
| attenuate | make thin; weaken; enervate |
| consume | get to the end of |
| phlegmatic | calm; sluggish; temperament; unemotional |
| sanctimony | self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety |
| inimical | harmful or unfriendly |
| prevaricate | to equivocate to stray from the truth |
| ingenuous | naive; young; artless; frank; honest; sincere |
| veracity | truth |
| barren | not good enough; unable to have young ones without value |