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English 200 Vocab

English 200 Final

QuestionAnswer
Viable Practical, workable
Anachronism A thing or person that belongs to an earlier time
Serfdom Slave
Barter The act of trading goods and services without the use of money
Derision Ridicule, mockery
Adjure To command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty
Livid Enraged
Agitator A person who stirs up others in order to upset them
Enunciated To announce or proclaim
Menial Lowly and sometimes degrading
Ludicrous Ridiculous
Gam Slang for a person's leg
Abnegating To give up
Stultifying To render useless or ineffectual
Intransigent Uncompromising
Unfaltering Unhesitating
Temerity Recklessness
Animist The belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls
Delude To deceive
Ken Knowledge
Pantheon The place of the heroes or idols of any group
Eviscerate To remove the entrails from
Olfactory Of or pertaining to the sense of smell
Lipophobia Avoidance of fats in food
Apotheosis The ideal example
Demonization To represent as evil
Paradox A self-contradictory and false proposition
Omnivore An organism that eats both plants and animals
Dilemma A situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives
Atavistic The return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence
Cornucopia An abundant, overflowing supply
Blandishment Something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice
Exacerbate To aggravate or irritate
Assuage To ease or satisfy
Unalloyed Complete, pure
Pastoral Rural
Oxymoron A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect
Karmic Like karma: fate, destiny
Zero Sum Of or denoting a system in which the sum of the gains equals the sum of the losses
Propitiation To bring to a state of peace
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