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English Vocab #3
KAP English 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abhor | To hate |
| Abomination | Anything hateful or disgusting |
| Abstruse | Hard to understand due to complexity |
| Adamant | Insistent |
| Adulation | Widespread admiration or praise in excess |
| Behemoth | Big and powerful |
| Callous | Incensitive |
| Chagrin | Distress, Disappointed, or Embarrassed for failing; Aggravation |
| Circuitous | Taking a roundabout, lengthy course |
| Circumscribe | To limit, confine, or restrict |
| Cynical | Believing people are selfish and distrusts human society; too focused on one's own situation and ignores appropriate achievable methods towards their goals |
| Destitute | Lacking necessity of life and living in poverty |
| Dogmatic | Following a set of rules no matter the circumstances; expressing opinions as if facts; believing in only one way of thinking |
| Enigmatic | Baffling |
| Idealize | To regard or represent as perfect or better than in reality |
| Placate | To appease as a means of pacifying |
| Pretentious | Attempting to impress when in reality, the attempt seems false or pompous |
| Reiterate | To repeat something as a means of clarity |
| Vehement | To state something forcefully or passionatel |
| Zeitgeist | Intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era's spirit that separates it from the rest |