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1st.DHoward
Sadlier Vocabulary Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| atone | to make up for |
| bondage | slavery; any state of being bound or held down |
| credible | believable |
| defray | to pay for |
| diligent | hardworking; industrious, not lazy |
| doleful | sad; dreary |
| ghastly | frightful, horrible; deathly pale |
| hamper | to hold back |
| hew | to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to |
| impoverished | poor, in state of poverty; depleted |
| incessant | never stopping, going on all the time |
| intricate | complicated; difficult to understand |
| lucid | easy to understand, clear; rational, sane |
| posthumous | occurring or published after death |
| prim | overly neat, proper, or formal; prudish |
| sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess |
| supplant | to take the place of, supersede |
| taunt | to jeer at, mock |
| tenacious | holding fast, or holding together firmly; persistent |
| accomplice | a person who takes part in a crime |
| annihilate | to destroy completely |
| arbitrary | unreasonable; based on one's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness |
| brazen | shameless, impudent; made of brass |
| catalyst | a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any agent that causes change |
| exodus | a large-scale departure or flight |
| facilitate | to make easier; to assist |
| incorrigible | not able to be corrected; beyond control |
| latent | hidden, present but not realized |
| militant | an activist |
| morose | having a gloomy or sudden manner; not friendly or sociable |
| opaque | not letting light through; not clear or lucid |
| paramount | chief in importance, above all others |
| prattle | to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple; to babble |
| rebut | to offer arguments or evidence that contradict an assertion, to refute |
| reprimand | to scold; find fault with |
| servitude | slavery, forced labor |
| slapdash | careless and hasty |
| stagnant | not running or flowing; foul from standing still, inactive |
| succumb | to give away to superior force, yield |
| adieu | "Farewell!" |
| advent | an arrival or a coming into place or view |
| apex | the highest point or tip or summit |
| assimilate | to absorb fully or make ones own or to adopt as ones own |
| bogus | false or counterfeit or fake |
| exorbitant | unreasonably high or excessive |
| interim | the time between or temporary |
| inundate | to flood or overflow or to overwhelm by numbers or size |
| malign | to speak evil of or slander or evil in nature |
| meander | to wander about or wind about or a sharp curve or loop |
| metropolis | a large city or the chief city of an area |
| momentous | very important or of great consequence |
| obstreperous | noisy or unruly or disorderly |
| pensive | thoughtful or melancholy or lost in deep thought |
| perilous | dangerous |
| shoddy | of poor quality or characterized by inferior workmanship |
| sprightly | lively or full of energy or spirited |
| surly | angry and bad tempered or rude |
| tirade | a long angry speech or usually very critical |
| vagrant | an idle wanderer or a tramp or wandering aimlessly |
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