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OINK Vocab Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ambiguity | Being open to one or more interpretation |
| Audacity | A willingness to take bold risks |
| Authoritarian | Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom |
| Cognizant | Having knowledge or being aware of |
| Domineering | Asserting one's will over another in an arrogant way |
| Facetious | Treating serious issues with deliberate inappropriate humor |
| Gleaned | Extract information from various sources |
| Haughty | arrogantly superior and disdainful |
| Irrevocable | not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered |
| Melancholy | a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause |
| Mirth | amusement, especially as expressed in laughter |
| Prescient | having or showing knowledge of events before they take place |
| Proverb | a short saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice |
| Reticent | not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily |
| Sheaf | a bundle of grain stalks laid lengthwise and tied together after reaping |
| Shrewd | having or showing sharp powers of judgment |
| Ubiquitous | present, appearing, or found everywhere |
| Vehement | showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense |
| Venerate | regard with great respect |
| Verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real |