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Alas, Babylon Vocab
vocab...
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Judiciously | Showing good judgment; wisely |
| Irascible | easily angered; irritable |
| Voyeur | a person who gets pleasure from secretly watching the private acts of others; peeping tom |
| Commiserated | felt or expressed sorrow for another's suffering; pitied |
| Audacious | bold; daring; having courage to take risks |
| Subversive | dissident; tending to overthrow; cause ruin |
| Cerebrate | to reason; to think |
| Capitulation | surrender under certain conditions |
| untenable | indefensible |
| miasma | something that has the ability to spread fear |
| tactical | having to do with the direction of military forces in battle; planned |
| antipathy | strong dislike |
| affront | a word or act intended to show disrespect or contempt; insult |
| cataclysm | a violent change or upheaval |
| artesian | a deep well from which water gushes up without being pumped |
| saturnine | gloomy; introverted |
| hypertension | abnormally high blood pressure |
| vector | a line to guide from one point to another |
| incongruously | inappropriately; out of place |
| ballistic missiles | missiles aimed at or before the time of launching; used especially as an offensive weapon. |
| inexplicable | unexplainable; mysteriously |
| contrails | vapor trails in the wake of aircraft flying at a high altitude |
| undulating | moving in the manner of waves; rolling |
| atavistic | reverting to a primitive state |
| gesticulating | making or using intense gestures; signaling |
| corpulent | fat; round |
| dissipation | wasting by misuse; debauchery |
| effrontery | shameless boldness |
| fiduciary | legally holding in trust; dependent on public trust for its value |
| holocaust | complete destruction by fire; massive destruction |
| improvident | not looking ahead; careless |
| infamy | extreme wickedness |
| moratorium | legal authorization to delay payments of money due, as in an emergency; suspension |
| pugnacious | quarrelsome, confrontational; fond of fighting |
| fastidious | extremely refined or critical |
| noxious | very harmful; poisonous; deadly |
| septic | causing infection or decay; diseased |
| macadam | pavement of bound; compacted stone |
| unorthodox | not generally accepted |
| emaciated | thin from loss of flesh; shrunken, wasted |
| inured | toughened, hardened, accustomed |
| maelstrom | a huge, turbulent whirlpool; a violent situation |
| barter | to trade on kind of goods for another |
| disparity | lack of equality |
| insidious | secret, subtle; more dangerous than is apparent |
| remunerative | profitable |
| marauders | persons or animals who go about to steal or take by illegal force |
| ludicrously | absurdly; ridiculously |
| capriciously | in a manner likely to change suddenly |
| avocation | something a person does besides his regular business; hobby |
| highwaymen | men who rob travelers on a public road |
| boondoggle | useless work |
| martial law | rule by the army in a time of trouble or war |
| paradoxical | may be true but seems to say or imply two opposite things |
| vicissitudes | changes in circumstances or fortunes |
| cryptic | having a hidden meaning; secret or mysterious |
| palavers | conference to discuss matters in dispute |
| august | majestic |
| decamped | left quickly or secretly; fled |
| imprudent | reckless, heedless, incautious |
| sortie | a single assault against the enemy; raid |
| wantonly | without reason or excuse; unjustifiably |
| immutable | never changing |
| acumen | keen insight; wisdom |
| malleable | adaptable; compliant |
| chagrined | disappointed; annoyed |
| translucent | letting light through but unable to see through; semi-transparent |
| tertiary | of the third order or rank |
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