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english vocab
first semester 2010
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| racketeer | a person engaged in illegal enterprises for profit |
| sobriquet | a nickname |
| annihilate | to reduce to utter ruin or nonexitance, destroy, to defeat completely, vanquish |
| manacious | telling lies, dishonest habitually, lying, false or untrue |
| karma | action seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad in life or reincarnation, the cosmic principle to which each person is rewarded or punished based on the person's deeds in the previous incarnation |
| slugabed | a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising |
| agrestic | rural, rustic, unpolished, awkward |
| parse | to anlyze in terms of grammatical conituents, identifying the parts of speech |
| bravado | pretentious, swaggering display of courage |
| intrepid | fearless, dauntless, |
| abhor | to regard with extreme rpugnance or aversion, detest utterly, loathe, abominate |
| cantakerous | disagreeable to deal with, contentious peevish, |
| kenspeckle | conspicous used in scotland, easily seen and recongnized |
| forthwith | immediately, at once, without delay |
| swagger | to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air, swaggering manner, conduct, or walk, ostentatious display of arrogance and conceit |
| fossick | to underimine another's digging search for waste gold in washing places, to search for any object by which to make gain |
| effronery | shameless, or impudent boldness, barefaced audacity |
| erroneous | containing error, mistaken, incorrect, wrong, straying frm what is moral decent proper |
| lucifugous | avoiding light |
| sluggard | a person who is habitually inactive or lazy, lasy |
| symptomatic | of the nature of or constituting a symptom, indicative of something, often followed by the word "of" |
| eschew | to abstain or keep away from: shun avoid |
| equivocal | allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase esp with the intent to deceive or misguide; deliberately ambigous; of doubtful nature or character, questionable, dubious, suspicious |
| apostasy | a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, or party |
| didactic | intended for instruction, instructive, inclined to teach or lecture others too much; teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson |
| boisterous | rough and noisy jolly or rowdy, clamorous; unrestrained, rough and storm as in waves, wind, and weather |
| burnish | to polish by friction, to make smooth and bright |
| shenanigan | mischief; prankishness |
| luciferous | bringing or providing light; providing insight or enlightenment |
| rue | to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly to wish that something had never been done or taken place |
| couchant | in a lying position |
| requite | o make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).; 2) to make retaliation for (a wrong, injury, etc.); avenge |
| frolicsome | merrily playful; full of fun |
| zenith | zenith |
| grotto | a cave or cavern |
| flummox | to bewilder; confound; confuse |
| respite | a delay or cessation for a time, esp. of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief: to toil without respite |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time; short-lived: the ephemeral joys of childhood |
| kith | acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group |
| eradicate | to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate: to eradicate smallpox throughout the world; 2) to pull up by the roots: to eradicate weeds |
| assiduous | onstant; unremitting: assiduous reading; 2) constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive: an assiduous student |
| abeyance | temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension: Let's hold that problem in abeyance for a while |
| ambiguous | open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer; 2) lacking clearness or definiteness; obscure; indistinct: an ambiguous shape; an ambiguous future |
| gormandize | to eat greedily or ravenously |
| foudroyant | striking suddently and with great severity; 2) striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling |
| justifiable | capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide |
| exacerbate | to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate |
| contrite | caused by or showing sincere remorse; 2) filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement; penitent: a contrite sinner |
| clairvoyant | having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision |
| talisman | a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm; 2) anything thought to have magical or protective powers |
| quixotic | preoccupied with an unrealistically optimistic or chivalrous approach to life; impractically idealistic |
| blasphemous | irreverent; profane; expressing or involving impiousness or gross irreverence towards God, a divine being, or something sacred |
| obliterate | to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely |
| vindictive | disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person |
| . feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite | . feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite |
| auspicious | romising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion |
| benevolence | desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness: to be filled with benevolence toward one's fellow creatures; 2) an act of kindness (as an adjective = benevolent) |
| parlance | a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance |
| acquiesce | to submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan (as a noun = acquiescence--agreement without argument) |
| dispassionate | free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic |
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