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Holthause-English
Vocabulary for MidTerm
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| billeted (Night) | an official order, written or verbal, directing the person to whom it is addressed to provide such lodging. |
| treatise (Night) | a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay. |
| pestilential (Night) | producing or tending to produce pestilence. |
| anecdotes (Night) | A short account of an interesting or humorous incident. |
| pious (Night) | having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations. |
| incite (Night) | to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action |
| notorious (Night) | widely and unfavorably known |
| bestial (Night) | of, pertaining to, or having the form of a beast |
| sanctity (Night) | holiness, saintliness, or godliness. |
| calamitous (Caged Bird) | causing or involving calamity; disastrous |
| tedious (Caged Bird) | marked by tedium; long and tiresome |
| quandary (Caged Bird) | a state of perplexity or uncertainty, esp. as to what to do; dilemma |
| vocation (Caged Bird) | a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling. |
| insolent (Caged Bird) | boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting |
| inequity (Caged Bird) | lack of equity; unfairness; favoritism or bias. |
| ambrosia (Caged Bird) | something especially delicious to taste or smell. |
| exemplary (Caged Bird) | worthy of imitation; commendable |
| pretentious (Caged Bird) | characterized by assumption of dignity or importance. |
| audible (Caged Bird) | capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard. |
| serenity (Caged Bird) | the state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil; sereneness. |
| pariah (Caged Bird) | an outcast. |
| wan (Speak) | of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color |
| mayhem (Speak) | random or deliberate violence or damage. a state of rowdy disorder. |
| patriarch (Speak) | a person regarded as the father or founder of an order, class, etc. |
| xenophobic (Speak) | an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange. |
| vermilion (Speak) | a brilliant scarlet red |
| conundrum (Speak) | a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words |
| vespiary (Speak) | a nest of social wasps. |
| indoctrination (Speak) | to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., esp. to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view. |
| symmetrical (Speak) | characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts. |
| pulverized (451) | to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding |
| proclivities (451) | natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition |
| odious (451) | deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable. |
| stagnant (451) | characterized by lack of development, advancement, or progressive movement |
| cacophony (451) | harsh discordance of sound; dissonance |
| insidious (451) | stealthily treacherous or deceitful |
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jweedlun
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