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Vocab 16
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pragmatic | |
| Pedantic | |
| Pithy | |
| Venial | |
| Epitome | |
| Acme | |
| Copious | |
| Perfidious | |
| Quixotic | |
| Penury | |
| Ignominious | |
| Antipathy | |
| Volition | |
| Felicitous | |
| Tenable | |
| (adj) practical; concerned with fact and practicality often to the exclusion of ideal or the artistic | |
| (adj) characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules | |
| (adj) precisely meaningful; tersely cogent; forceful and brief | |
| (adj) pardonable, forgivable, excusable | |
| (n) person or thing that embodies or represents the best | |
| (n) the ultimate point; peak, pinnacle, zenith, summit | |
| (adj) yielding or containing plenty; ample, abundant, plentiful | |
| (adj) treacherous, false, disloyal; suggests calculated violation of trust | |
| (adj) foolishly impractical, caught up in romance of noble deeds and pursuit or unreachable goals | |
| (n) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | |
| (adj) marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame | |
| (n) a feeling of intense dislike; deep-seated aversion or repugnance | |
| (n) a conscious choice or decision; the act or an instance of making a conscious choice; the power or faculty of choosing; the will | |
| (adj) marked by happiness or good fortune; exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | |
| (adj) based on sound reasoning or evidence; capable of being supported or maintained in argument |