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Vocab english

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TermDefinition
Adjunct something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; (adj.) added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity
Bellwether the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse: as in a desperate or violent undertaking
Caterwaul to howl or screech like a cat
Chimerical absurd
Effete lacking in wholesome vigor or energy worn out or exhausted
Fait Accompli an accomplished and presumably
Hidebound narrow minded and rigid, especially in opinions conservative
Hierarchy any system of things or people arranged or graded on above another in order or rank or wealth
Liturgy abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice
Laissez-faire a religious service or rite other act of public worship
Morass a patch of low,soft, wet ground
Noisome offensive or disgusting; foul smelling
Oblivious forgetful unware
Poltroon a base low coward(chicken)
Proselyte A convert
Quasi resembling but not actually being (kind of sysnonyms.
Raillery good humored ridicule (teasing)
Ribald irreverently mocking
Supine lying flat on one's back listless or passively
Vignette a short description or a sketch a picture of illustration with edges that fade
Created by: Bipul
 

 



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