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vocabulary 61-67
vocab words from word within a word
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| animus | intent or hatred |
| interdiction | prohibition |
| commensurate | of like measure |
| perplex | confuse |
| copious | abundant |
| traverse | cross |
| bibliophile | a book lover |
| demography | study of population |
| sanguine | cheerful |
| ostentatious | showy |
| microcosm | small universe |
| defenestrate | toss out of the midow |
| animus | intent or hatred |
| nonplussed | perplexed |
| interdiction | prohibition |
| commensurate | of like measure |
| neophyte | beginner |
| incredulous | not believing |
| demure | to object |
| poignant | sharp |
| lassitude | languor |
| apprehend | to understand |
| prodigious | amazing |
| indolet | lazt |
| persiflage | flippant style |
| ambiguous | indefinite |
| ambivalence | conflicting feelings |
| declasse | lox class |
| putative | thought-to-be |
| mollify | make soft |
| gregarous | sociable |
| altercation | heated dispute |
| alter ego | second self |
| philander | to engage in love affairs |
| apocrypha | unauthentic works |
| tendetious | slnted |
| importune | to trouble with requests |
| apothegm | a pithy saying |
| cacoethes | a mania |
| veridical | truthful |
| pulchritude | physical beauty |
| expunge | completely remove |
| acerbity | sharpness of temper |
| perfidy | breach of faith |
| translucent | semitransparent |
| cacophony | bad noise |
| tangible | touchable |
| altruism | concern for others |
| obsequies | funeral ceremonies |
| exodus | a departure |
| pensive | sadly thoughtful |
| salubrious | healthful |
| demure | modest or affectedly modest |
| undulate | to wave |
| amiable | friendly |
| abate | to lessen |
| serene | clear and calm |
| obsequious | servile |
| sedate | calm |
| condescend | lower oneself |
| nihilism | belief in nothing |
| interstice | small space |
| dialectic | logical argument |
| temararious | reckless |
| sophist | a specious reasner |
| erudite | scholarly |
| denouement | unraveling of plot |
| concupiscence | intese desire or lust |
| esculent | edible |
| pertinacious | holding stubbornly |
| interlocutor | person in conversation |
| aphoriasm | a concise wisdom |
| autodidact | self-taught person |
| reify | treat as real |
| in media res | in the middle of things |
| circumvent | get around |
| exculpate | free from blame |
| cupidity | greed |
| euphoria | feel of well-being |
| protocol | rules of ceremony |
| odoius | disgusting |
| visage | face |
| pontificate | speak dogmatically |
| mendacious | untruthful |
| uxorious | wife-doting |
| apophasis | mention by denial |
| rebuke | sharp reprimand |
| objurgation | rebuke |
| soporific | sleep-inducing |
| internecine | mutually destructive |
| dichotomy | two-part division |
| epiphany | revelation |
| electic | from various sources |
| numinous | supernatural |
| mendicant | beggar |
| fatuous | complacently stupid |
| oblivion | being forgotten |
| propitious | favorably disposed |
| requite | repay |
| aphasia | loss of speech |
| nullifidian | faithless person |
| risible | laughable |
| assidouos | persevering |
| saturine | gloomy and remote |
| vacuous | stupidly empty of ideas |
| ex cathreda | from the throne |
| pusillanimous | small-mided |
| sublime | noble |
| auto da fe | burning a heretic |
| ebullient | enthusiastic |
| impunity | exemption from punishment |
| illuminati | enlightened intellects |
| hegemony | state dominance |
| psychosis | major mental illness |
| neurosis | mental disorder |
| oleaginous | oily |
| peregrinate | to travel |
| reiterate | repeat |
| desultory | rambling |
| idee fixe | obsession |
| precursor | forerunner |
| euphony | beautiful sound |
| attenuated | thinned |
| extraneous | from outside |
| profound | deep |
| sedulous | diligent |
| incunabula | infancy |
| parvenu | an upstart |
| sycophant | an obsequious parasite |
| adagio | a slow movement |
| desuetude | disuse |
| prolegomenon | preliminary statement |
| hedonism | devotion to pleasure |
| narcissism | self-adoration |
| patrician | aristocratic |
| miscreant | evil unbeliever |
| terra firma | firm land |
| inchoate | just began |
| peripatetic | walking |
| ambient | surrounding |
| tenuous | thin |
| ductile | malleable |
| fortuitous | by chance |
| surrogate | substitute |
| allude | indirectly refer |
| dishabile | partially dressed |
| Sybarite | a devotee of luxury |
| stoicism | valediction |
| sucercilious | scornful |
| moribund | dying |
| expository | explanatory |
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divadancer1996
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