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Vocab Q2

TermDefinition
Abrupt sudden; unexpected
Brusque abrupt in manner
Calculating selfishly scheming
Derogatory lessening the reputation of someone
Pugnacious ready to fight; quarrelsome
Recumbent lying down; inactive
Bemused bewildered; confused; puzzled
Meager lacking in quality or quantity
Monotonous lacking in variety
Receptive willing to accept new ideas
Reprehensible deserving of punishment
Untenanted vacant; unoccupied
Querulous full of complaints
Elusive hard to express or define
Tumultuous confused; disorderly
Stark downright; blunt
Lumbers to walk sluggishly
Appraised to estimate the value of
Yammered to whine; to complain
Bleated to utter the cry of a sheep
Writhe to twist and turn in pain
Lolls to recline
Forestall to prevent; hinder
Juncture a serious state of affairs
Derision ridicule; mockery
Impertinence rudeness; intrusion
Delirium a confusing state of mind
Fatuity foolishness
Frieze decorative band on the wall
Repression the state of being kept under control
Importunities the quality of being persistent
Salient prominent; most noticeable
Tempest violent windstorm
Guile crafty deception
Complacently pleasant; satisfactory
Imperiously overbearing
Morosely ill
Aloof uninterested
Contemptuously scornful; disrespectful
Craftily deceitful; sly
Sniveled to weep; cry
Mottled spotted; blotched
Felicity state of pure happiness
Myriad a great number
Congenial agreeable; pleasant
Benevolent expressing goodwill
Stringency the quality of being strict
Equivocal suspicious; questionable
Appellation a name/title
Specious pleasing but misleading
Anomalous abnormal
Sentience the capacity for feeling
Maledictions a curse
Prescient knowing beforehand
Pertinaciously stubborn
Galvanic sudden; shocking
Depravity morally corrupt; wicked
Consternation feeling anxious or dismay
Redolent having a good odor
Munificent very generous
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