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Lang Vocab 1-8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allocation | the act of setting apart for a purpose or specific plan, designate |
| Beguile | to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude; to take away from by cheating or deceiving |
| Crass | without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts |
| Defray | to bear or pay all of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip |
| Dint | force; power: By dint of 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. |
| Vicarious | performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment. Taking the place of another person or thing; acting 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. |
| 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. |
| Pecuniary | of or involving money; involving a money penalty or fine |
| Subversive | 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 |
| Disparity | inequality or difference as in rank, amount, or quality; unlikeness |
| 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 which 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 |
| 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 |
| Nefarious | extremely wicked or villainous |
| Retinue | a body of attendants upon an important person |
| Suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly; as words, actions |
| 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 |
| Choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered |
| 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 |
| Censure | an expression of blame or disapproval |
| 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 |
| Pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution; cowardly, faint-hearted, timid |
| Allay | to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet. |
| Capacious | capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin. |
| Extricate | to free or release from entanglement; disengage: to extricate someone from a dangerous situation. |
| 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.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly. |
| Prostrate | lying face down |
| Acquiesce | to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently and without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan. |
| Amity | friendship; peaceful harmony. |
| Arduous | requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking. |
| 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. |
| Perjury | willingly giving a false testimony while under oath. |
| Perspicuity | clearness, well expressed, not vague |
| Voluble | characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; talkative: a voluble spokesman for the cause |
| Admonish | to counsel or advise against something, to scold in a mild manner |
| Aplomb | unwavering assurance or poise; the vertical or perpendicular position |
| Barrage | overwhelming quantity, an explosion |
| Cognizant | to have awareness, realization, or knowledge |
| Collusion | a secret agreement, usually for fraud or a conspiracy |
| Nebulous | cloudy, vague, confused |
| Paradigm | something that serves as a pattern or model, a precedent |
| Urbane | reflecting elegance or sophistication |
| Ambulatory | walking or moving around |
| Brazen | showing or expressing boldness and a complete lack of shame |
| Exonerate | to declare officially that somebody is not to blame or is not guilty of wrongdoing |
| Inscrutable | not expressing anything clearly and thus hard to interpret |
| Prognosticate | to predict or foretell future events |
| Schism | the division of a group into mutually antagonistic factions |
| Wizened | looking wrinkled, shriveled, or dried up |
| Austere | imposing or suggesting physical hardship |
| Corpulent | somewhat overweight |
| Jocund | cheerful and full of good humor |
| Ostentatious | characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
| Sanguine | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident |
| Strident | having a shrill, irritating quality or character |
| Elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation |
| Fecund | very productive or creative intellectually |
| Fortuitous | happening or produced by chance; accidental |
| Infirmity | a physical weakness or ailment; a moral weakness or failing |
| Profligate | utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated |
| Remonstrance | to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval |
| Scintillate | to sparkle; flash; to twinkle, as the stars |
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