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Vocab study 21
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| amity | friendship |
| blandishment | flattery |
| callous | hardened: insensitive, indifferent. unsympathetic |
| carping | finding fault |
| clemency | leniency |
| dilatory | delaying, slow |
| esteem | estimate of value; approval and respect often blended with fondness |
| finesse | delicate skill |
| heretical | contrary to church doctrine or accepted beliefs or standards |
| imperious | extremely overbearing |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied |
| irreproachable | faultless. not discreditable |
| mirth | gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter |
| orthodox | contornung to established standards. conventional |
| pious | marked by showing zealous devotion to the rites of religion |
| plight | difficult or adverse situation |
| rancid | having a foul or offensive smell or taste |
| raucous | loud and boisterous, harsh, disorderly |
| repugnant | disgusting, offensive |
| spiteful | full of spite or malice; malicious; malevolent |
| adjunct (pos) | noun or adjective |
| anomalous (pos) | adjective |
| astute (pos) | adjective |
| civility (pos) | noun |
| covert (pos) | adjective or noun |
| deft (pos) | adjective |
| iconoclast (pos) | noun |
| illustrious (pos) | adjective |
| indigenous (pos) | adjective |
| partisan (pos) | noun or adjective |
| pungent (pos) | adjective |
| saccharine (pos) | adjective |
| slovenly (pos) | adjective or adverb |
| sonorous (pos) | adjective |
| sporadic (pos) | adjective |
| stolid (pos) | adjective |
| tangential (pos) | adjective |
| tentative (pos) | adjective |
| terrestrial (pos) | adjective or noun |
| untenable (pos) | adjective |
| amity (syn) | cordiality, harmony, kindliness |
| blandishment (syn) | adulation, fawning, praise, sycophancy |
| callous (syn) | hard, inured, insensible, obtuse |
| carping (syn) | captious, censorious, critical |
| clemency (syn) | compassion, forbearance, mercy |
| dilatory (syn) | dallying, delaying, leisurely, sluggish, unhurried |
| esteem (syn) | regard, valuation, reputation |
| finesse (syn) | acumen, adroitness, competence, stratagem |
| heretical (syn) | apostate, dissenting, iconoclastic, revisionist, unorthodox |
| imperious (syn) | domineering, imperative, masterful, peremptory |
| insatiable (syn) | demanding, gluttonous, intemperate, rapacious, unappeasable |
| irreproachable (syn) | exemplary, impeccable, irreprovable, unimpeachable |
| mirth (syn) | glee, hilarity, jollity |
| orthodox (syn) | accepted, approved, conventional, customary, devout, pious, recognized, standard |
| pious (syn) | devout, orthodox, reverent, sanctimonious |
| plight (syn) | dilemma, impasse, jam, predicament, quandary, straits |
| rancid (syn) | fetid, nasty, malodorous, musty, noisome, putrid, rank |
| raucous (syn) | stentorian, strident |
| repugnant (syn) | abhorrent, hideous, obnoxious, repellent |
| spiteful (syn) | vengeful, cruel, rancorous |
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