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M.B. Vocab
Motherless Brooklyn English Vocab
| Tourette | (n) A condition in which somebody experiences multiple ticks and twitches and utters involuntary vocal grunts and obscene speech |
| Placate | (vt) To make somebody less angry, upset, or hostile, usually by doing or saying things to please him or her |
| Complacent | (adj) 1. self-satisfied, usually in an unreflective way and without being aware of possible dangers 2. Eager to please |
| Echolalia | (n) The compulsive repetition of words spoken by somebody else, often a sighn of a psychiatric disorder |
| Complicit | (adj) Involved in something illegal or wrong |
| Redundant | (adj) Not needed or no longer needed |
| Expedient | (adj) Appropriate, advisable, or usefull in a situation that requires action |
| Garrulous | (adj) Excessively or pointlessly talkative |
| Egalitarian | (adj) Maintaining, relating to, or based on a belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy equal social, political, and economic rights and oppurtunities |
| Monolithic | (adj) Consisting of or formed into a tall column of solid stone |
| Prodigious | (adj) Very impressive or amazing |
| Malleable | (adJ) Easily persuaded or influenced by others |
| Precocious | (adj) More developed, especially mentally, than is usual or expected at a particular age or showing such advanced development |
| Adamant | (adj) Very determined and not influenced by repeals to reconsider |
| Incongruous | (adj) Unsuitable, strange, or out of place in a particular setting or context |
| Simulacrum | (n) A representation or image of something |
| Guile | (n) A cunning, deceitful and treacherous quality or type of behavior, or particular skill and cleverness in tricking or decieving people |
| Pristine | (adj) So clean and need as to look as good as new |
| Anomaly | (n) Something that deviates from the norm or from expectations |
| Banal | (adj) Boringly ordinary and lacking in origionality |
| Munificent | (adj) Very generous in giving |
| Familial | (adj) Relating to or involving a family |
| Dormant | (adj) Temporarily inactive or out of use |
| Herculean | (adj) Requiring a great deal of strength, stamina, or recourses |
| Sycophantic | (adj) The quality of flattering a person with power for personal gain |
| Penumbra | (n) An indistinct area, especially a stake in which something is unclear or uncertain |
| Indolent | (adj) Lathargic and not showing an interest or making any effort |
| Nuance | (n) A very slight difference in meaning, feeling, tone, or color |
| Acuity | (n) Keeness of hearing sight or intellect |
| Chimerical | (n) Non-existent, existing only in somebody's imagination, or widly improbable or unrealistic |
| Conundrum | (n) A riddle, especially one with an answer in a form of a play on words |
| Emulate | (vt) To try hard to equal or surpass somebody or something, especially by intimidation |
| Permutation | (n) An arrangement of items created by moving or reordering them |
| Mellifluous | (adj) Pleasent and soothing to listen to, and sweet or rich in tone |
| Apotheosis | (n) The highest point of glory, power, or importance |
| Solipsistic | (adj) The self is the only thing that exists, self absorbed |
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