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Vocab Cary High 10th grade English -Jessee
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hedonistic | adjective /pleasure seeking; indulgent; beliving that seeking happiness is the highest good; devoteing oneself to self gradification as a way of life/ synonym: libertine |
| slander | Noun or verb/ defamation; a malicious false and defamatory statement or report) Verb: to defamate to utter or circulate slander. /Synonym: villification, falsehood , distortion , misrepersentation |
| Hackneyed | Adjective/ made common place, or trite, stale banal/ Synonym: routine, common, insane, insipid, worn out , convention, ordinary, dull |
| Amass | verb/ to gather for oneself; to collect in a mass or pile; to come together, assmeble |
| Fortutous | adjective/ happening or produced by chance accidental lucky; fortunate/Synonyms:random, chance , causual, unexpected, serendipitous |
| assuage | verb/to make milder or less severe; relieve ; ease; mitage; appease; satisfy; allay to sooth calm/ Synonym: ease, mitage |
| Verbose (verbosity) | adjective / expressed in or characterized by the use of many or too many words, wordy/ synonyms: loquicious, voluble, grandiloquent,effesive |
| supercilious | adjective/ haughtily disdainful or contemptous as a person or a look / Synonyms: self-imporant, lordy, prompous, condescending patronizing arrogent. proud over bareing egotisic |
| objective | adjective/ uninflunced by emotion,or personal prejudice, based on observable phenomena; presneted factullaly /Synonyms:unemational, impersonal, unbaised |
| revere | verb / to regard with awe , great respect , or devotion,/ Synonym:worship, venterate , adore , idolize |
| banal | adjective; Devoid of freshness or origanality; hackneyed , trite / Synonyms: dull, ordinary , common |
| sycophant | noun/ a self -seeking servile flatterer; fawning parasite/ Synonym: bootlicker , fawner , flunky , stooge , yes-man , brown noser |
| temper | moderate;lessen;assuage;extenuate |
| jeopardy | peril |
| insipid | bland, zestless |
| taciturn | reserved, laconic |
| dogmatic | extremely opinonated,dictatorial |
| extraneous | irrelevant, impertinent, extrinsic, |
| sage | (blank) |
| sagacious | having a keen sense |
| orthodox | acceptable, established |
| mitigate | |
| blithe | (blank) |
| scrutinizing | (blank) |
| meander | (blank) |
| innocuos | (blank) |
| ameliorate | (blank) |
| pretentious | (blank) |
| esoteric | (blank) |
| blasphomous | (blank) |
| fickle | (blank) |
| avarice | (blank) |
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