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lang vocab list 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| manifest | to make clear or evident to the eye or the understanding |
| 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 |
| vehement | characterized by rancor or anger; marked by great energy; strongly emotional; intense or passionate |
| elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation |
| fecund | very productive or creative intellectually |
| fortutious | happening or produced by chance; accidental |
| infirmity | a physical weakness or ailment; a moral weakness or failing |
| malady | any disorder or disease of the body |
| nuance | a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, and response |
| profligate | utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated |
| remonstrance | to plead in protest, objection, or disapproval |
| scintillate | to sparked; flash; to twinkle; as the stars |
| vitiate | to impair or weaken the effectiveness of; to make legally defective or invalid |