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mega lang vocab list
Lang vocab list 1-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allay | to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet. |
| Capacious | capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin |
| Diurnal | of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily |
| Extricate | to free or release from entanglement; disengage: to extricate someone from a dangerous situation |
| Ignominious | marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat |
| Mitigate | to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate |
| Palpitate | to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc |
| Phlegmatic | not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish |
| Propitious | presenting favorable conditions; favorable |
| Prostrate | lying face down |
| Acquisece | to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent |
| Amity | friendship; peaceful harmony |
| Arduous | requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult |
| Gestalt | a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole |
| Inundate | to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge |
| Feckless | lacking purpose or vitality, weak, ineffective, irresponsible |
| Impasse | a road or passage having no exit, dead end; a position or situation from which there is no escape |
| Indolent | disinclined to work, habitually lazy |
| Lugubrious | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner |
| Ribald | vulgar or indecent in language or speech; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent |
| Adulation | excessive praise, flattery, or admiration |
| Censure | an expression of blame or disapproval |
| Dissimulation | the act or process of making or becoming dissimilar; the act of deceiving |
| Droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| Expectorate | to eject from the mouth; spit |
| Palpate | to examine or explore by touching, esp, for the purpose of diagnosing a disease or illness |
| Peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| Pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution; cowardly, faint-hearted, timid |
| Surfeit | to feed or supply to fullness; to suffer from the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking |
| akin | similar or closely related to something; related by blood |
| corroborate | to give or represent evidence of the truth of something |
| inexorable | unyielding; unalterable; relentless |
| insipid | without distinctive or stimulated qualities; lacking taste |
| nefarious | extremely wicked or villainous |
| physiognomy | the outward (facial) appearance of anything, taken as offering some insight into its character |
| retinue | a body of attendants upon an important person |
| suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly; as words, actions |
| tedium | the quality or state of being wearisome; boredom |
| torrid | subject to parching or burning heat, esp. of the sun |
| affront | deliberate act or display of disrespect; insult |
| blasé | indifferent to or bored with life; apathetic to pleasure as a result of excessive indulgences |
| cajole | to persuade by flatter or promises |
| choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered |
| encumber | burden or weigh down; to hinder |
| Pecuniary | of or involving money; involving a money penalty or fine |
| Plight | to pledge or promise |
| Presumptuous | too bold or forward; showing overconfidence; arrogance |
| Subversite | tending or seeking to overthrow or destroy |
| Vacuous | having or showing lack of intelligence, interest, or thought; empty of matter |
| Avocation | something one does in addition to regular work and usually for pleasure; hobby |
| Capricious | tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason |
| Disparity | inequality or difference as in rank, amount, or quality; unlikeness |
| Efficacy | power to produce effects of intended results |
| Epistle | a letter esp. a long formal instructive letter; written communication |
| Hospice | a place of shelter for travelers, esp. such a shelter maintained by monks |
| Impetus | the force with thick a body moves against resistance; anything that stimulates activity |
| Moribund | dying; coming to an end' having little or no vital force left |
| Reticent | habitually silent or uncommunicative; disinclined to speak readily |
| Vacillate | to sway to and fro; fluctuate or oscillate |
| allocation | the act of setting apart for a purpose or specific plan, designate ex: "Who is in charge of the allocation of the funds?" |
| ascetic | a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or soelf-mortification for religious reasons |
| beguile | to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude; to take away from by cheating or deceiving ex: "You think you can beguile me?" |
| crass | without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism ex: a crass misrepresentation of the facts |
| defray | to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.) ex: the grant helped defray the expenses of the trip |
| dint | force; power; by dint hard work she became head of the company. a dent. |
| enjoin | to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis: the doctor enjoined a strict diet |
| envoy | a diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative |
| interloper | to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license; to thrust oneself into the affairs of others |
| vicarious | performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment. taking the place of another person or thing; active or serving as a substitute |
| admonish | to caution, advise, or counsel against something; to reprove or scold, esp. in a mild and good-willed manner: the teacher admonished him about excessive noise |
| akimbo | with hand on hip and elbow bent outward: to stand with arms akimbo |
| lassitude | weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.: lack of energy; listlessness; languor; a condition of indolent indifference: the pleasant lassitude of the warm summer afternoon |
| licentious | sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd; unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral |
| muse | (verb) to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject; (noun) any of a number of sister goddesses |
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