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Vocab List #2-
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adj.- sharp, bitter, corrosive; severe, sarcastic speech | Acrimonious |
| v.t- to make better; to improve | Ameliorate |
| v.t- to lesson; pacify, satisfy / v.i- to abate or subside | Assuage |
| adj.- commonplace, trivial | Banal |
| adj.- careful, cautious,shy,frugal or stingy | Chary |
| adj.- in an early stage; undeveolped | Embryonic |
| n.- a perplexing statement, riddle | Enigma |
| adj.- having extensive knowledge / n.- a learned person | Erudite |
| adj.- that which cannot be moved by persuasion, immovable | Innexorable |
| adj.- fearless, brave, bold | Intrepid |
| adj.- deep rooted, settled in habit, practice | Inveterate |
| adj.- concise phrase, expressing much in few words | Laconic |
| adj.- talkative | Loquacious |
| n.- a gesture of respect or reverence (bow and curtsy) deference | Obeisance |
| adj.- excessive willingness to obey; devoted, dutiful | Obsequious |
| adj.- making a display of knowledge | Pedantic |
| adj.- impatient, irratable, bad tempered | Petulant |
| adj.- hard to rouse to action, sluggish | Phlegmatic |
| n.- a natural tendency (toward something discreditable) | Proclivity |
| v.t.- to predict, to foretell | Prognosticate |
| adj.- disposed to fight, quarrelsome | Pugnacious |
| n.- physical beauty | Pulchritude |
| adj.- careful of details, conscientiously honest | Scrupulous |
| adj.- keen, penetrating ; forceful, vigorous, clear out, distinct | Trenchant |
| adj.- tasteless, flavorless, flat, unintending, lifeless, dull | Vapid |