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Eng. FE Vocab
Vocabulary needed to know for English Final Exam.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adroit | quick or skillful or adept in action or thought |
| adverse | strongly opposed |
| aversion | a feeling of intense dislike |
| anthropology | the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings |
| bilious | ill tempered; cross; peevish |
| circumlocution | a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
| circumspect | needful of potential consequences |
| connubial | of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband |
| consanguinity | kin |
| equivocate | be delibrately ambigous or unclear in order to mislead or withold information |
| expedient | a means to an end; not necessarily a principated or ethical one |
| gauche | lacking social polish |
| grandiloquent | lofty in style |
| loquacious | talkative |
| melancholy | depression of spirits |
| misanthropist | a person who hates or distrusts others |
| misogyny | hatred of women |
| philanthropist | lover of mankind; doer of good |
| subversive | one who advocates or attempts to undermine a political system |
| xenophobia | an irrational fear of foreigners or strangers |