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Vocab Q1

TermDefinition
Apt (adj) appropriate; suitable; likely
Ominous (adj) evil; threatening
Respite (adj) internal relief
Bleak (adj) bare; desolate, cold
Venerable (adj) to command respect
Infamous (adj) having an extremely bad reputation
Indecorous (adj) violating generally accepted standards of good taste
Ostentatious (adj) tending to show off
Sagacious (adj) clever; knowledgeable
Tremulous (adj) timid; shaking from fear
Impertinent (adj) intrusive; rude
Sublime (adj) supreme; outstanding
Doleful (adj) sorrowful; mournful
Singular (adj) unusual; strange; extraordinary
Lavish (adj) extravagant; rich
Suave (adj) smoothly; polite
Inane (adj) lacking sense; foolish
Innumerable (adj)countless; incapable of being counted
Provocative (adj) stimulating; irritating
Conscientious (adj) controlled by an inner sense of what's right
Blase (adj) unimpressed; bored
Immaterial (adj) unimportant
Harrowing (verb) extremely disturbing
Assimilate (verb) to take in; absorb
Efface (verb) to wipe out; erase
Surcease (verb) come to an end
Beguile (verb) misled; trick; deceive
Digress (verb) to wander from the topic
Verification (noun) the act of proving true
Virtue (noun) moral excellence
Obstinacy (noun) stubbornness
Relevance (noun) connected to the matter at hand
Melancholy (noun) gloomy state of mind
Obeisance (noun) a gesture of respect; courtesy
Countenance (noun) appearance; look on the face
Iniquity (noun) wicked act; sin
Putrid (adj) a state of foul decay
Spontaneous (adj) result of impulse
Incognito (adj) concealed identity
Ostracize (verb) to banish from a group
Pacifist (noun) someone who is opposed to violence
Sterling (adj) excellent; valuable
Scrawny (adj) excessively thin; lean
Scraggy (adj) thin; lean
Tiff (noun) petty or slight quarrel
Pedagogue (noun) school teacher
Nonchalant (adj) unexcited; casual
Sacrilegious (adj) violating something sacred
Bourgeois (noun) person of the middle class
Sadist (noun) a person who enjoys being cruel
Created by: 425lbruzzese
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