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Lang final
Lang lit final vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Capital | total amount of wealth |
| casual | happening by chance, accidental, informal |
| Catastrophe | a sudden wide spread disaster |
| category | a class, a division or group |
| censorship | the act of or a system of making objectives and moving parts |
| charitable | generous in gift giving or helping others |
| childlike | like or suitable to be a child |
| circulate | to flow or move in a path that returns to the start, to move about freely to spread widely |
| circumnavigate | to sail or travel completely around something |
| clarify | to make clear |
| barbarism | uncivilized, brutal behavior, a nonstandard word or expression |
| basis | the support or foundation on which something rests, the main ingredient or principal |
| baste | to sew together with loose to moisten meat |
| bewilder | to baffle, to puzzle, to confuse |
| blockade | the closing off of an area, to obscure or hinder |
| boisterous | rough and stormy; noisy and unruly |
| boycott | to agree to have nothing to do with a person or business, to refuse to have bought a item |
| burly | big and strong, husky and sturdy. |
| calamity | a distaster |
| aristocrat | a member of nobility or the upper class |
| articulate | to express in words, to speak clearly and distinctly |
| aspiritaion | a great ambition |
| automaton | a person who is like a robot |
| badger | to pester, to nag, a small borrow, a animal |
| adept | skillful, an expert |
| dispatch | a message, a quick send off |
| eccentric | very odd in behavior or dress: irregular |
| dictate | to give orders, to say something out loud, to read it |
| dilapidated | falling to pieces, in ruins because of neglect |
| discord | to make or become smaller |
| defy | to refuse or resist openly, to challenge or dare |
| depose | to remove from office, to testify or state under oath |
| derive | to draw out or get, to trace the history |
| contemporary | living at the same time or period, modern, a person living at the same time as another |
| decade | 10 years |
| deceive | a mislead or delude someone as by lying |
| hydraulic | moved or operated by compressing water or another liquid |
| imperative | absolutely necessary |
| harmonious | made up of parts that are orderly and pleasing, shoeing agreements and attitudes. |
| haughty | proud or vain |
| foreword | an intro word before a book |
| fortnight | a period of fourteen days, 2 weeks |
| falter | to waver, to hesitate, to stumble, to hamper |
| fictitious | imaginary, false |
| moral | a state of mind, cheerful, willing to preform |
| myriad | a great number, a crowd, the common people |
| memento | a keepsake, a souvenir, anything kept or given to remind one of the past |
| intrigue | a sly or secret plan, scheming, or plotting, |
| jubilation | the act of rejoicing |
| knoll | a small rounded hill |
| latent | hidden, not active |
| liberate | set free |
| inquisitive | full of questions, eager to learn, very curious |
| inclination | a tendency |
| indelible | incapable of being erased |
| recuperate | to return to health or strength |
| regime | a system or form of government |
| remorse | bitter regret |
| premier | a prime minister |
| primitive | belonging to or coming from earliest times |
| presume | take for granted |
| provision | the act of providing or supplying |
| picturesque | suggesting a picture |
| pious | devout, suggesting religious devotion |
| pleasantry | a good-natured joke |
| posterity | all of a persons decedents |
| parasitic | living at the expense of others, living on a plant or animal and contributing nothing |
| pewter | a dull gray alloy of tin |
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