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Unit 3 vocab
Coach Slattery
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cavort | to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
| Credence | Belief, mental acceptance |
| Decry | To condemn, express strong disapproval; to oficially depreciate |
| Dissemble | To disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression |
| Distraught | Very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict |
| Eulogy | A formal statement of commendation; high praise |
| Evince | To display clearly, to make evident, to provoke |
| Exhume | To remove from a grave; to bring to light |
| Feckless | Lacking in spirit and strength ineffective weak; irresponsible unreliable |
| Murky | Dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision |
| Nefarious | Wicket, depraved, devoid of mortal standards. |
| Ouqyabt | Stimulating to the taste or mind spicy, pungently appealingly provacative |
| Primordial | Developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic |
| Propinquity | Nearness in place or time; kinship |
| Substantive | real, having a solid basis; considerable in number or amount, meaningful and on topic |
| unwonted | not usual or expected; not in character |
| utopian | founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical |
| Verbiage | language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense of content, wordiness; a manner of expression |
| verdant | green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement |
| viscous | having gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity |