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english vocab
honors spring
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| acidulous | somewhat sour; having a degree of acidity |
| adjure | to command earnestly |
| antediluvian | very old (negative) |
| apodiptic | unequivocally true |
| arriviste | social climber; high position through unscrupulous means |
| aver | declare, assert, prove |
| badinage | repartee;jovial banter |
| bagatelle | something of insignificance, a trifle; short piece of music |
| bailiwick | particular area of expertise |
| balderdash | nonsense; trash |
| beamish | smiling or glowing |
| behemoth | something that is enormous |
| besmirch | stain or sully, especially a reputation |
| bray | to crush into powder |
| bumptious | pushy; conceited; loudly assertive |
| captious | having a tendency to uncover trivial faults; intended to confuse |
| celerity | hast, swiftness of movement; esp. movements of living beings |
| crapulous | gluttonous or immoderate in drinking; suffering from effects of overindulgence |
| crepusucular | of or like twilight, dim; active during twilight |
| cunctation | procrastination |
| cynosure | object at the focal point of attention; something used as a guide |
| declasse | having reduced social status, of inferior status |
| degage | casual, relaxed |
| demimonde | a class of kept or other women of lower social standing; a group with marginal success of respectability |
| desiderate | to seek earnestly, to express a desire for, to miss |
| diadem | serving to separate, distinguishing; able to discriminate |
| diaphanous | perfectly transparent or translucent; airy, insubstantial |
| dissonance | harsh combination of sounds; discard; discrepancy; strife |
| divagate | to wander; to digress |
| eclat | brilliant success; acclaim; brilliancein performance or achievement |
| educe | to draw out something that is present in a latent state, elicit, evoke |
| effete | exhausted, depleted of vitality; infertile; overrefined |
| elan | enthusiasm or vigor; distinctive style |
| equipoise | equal in weight or relationship; equilibrium; a counter balance |
| ersatz | an imitation, usually inferior |
| ethos | the character or values of a specific person, culture, movement |
| exculpate | to free from blame, to prove to be guiltless |
| exigous | scanty, meager |
| feral | wild by nature |
| fractious | unruly with a tendency to make trouble; cranky |
| imbroglio | a difficult situation; a complicated disagreement; a confused mass |
| immure | to enclose as if within a wall; to entomb in a wall |
| interdict | to prohibit, to forbid, to stpo enemy movement by destroying supply lines |
| iterant | repeating |
| jape | to joke, to quip; to make fun of |
| lassitude | a state of lethargy, weariness or listlessness |
| mettle | courage; quality of temperament; character |
| mien | the air or bearing of a person, one's manner or personality |
| minatory | menacing or threatening |
| moot | of no importance |
| moue | a pout, usually playful |
| musth | annual frenzied state of sexual activity in male elephants |
| nefandous | abominable, not to be spoken of |
| niggle | to be obsessed with trivialities |
| ontongeny | development of an organism from conception to adult |
| opisthenar | back of hand |
| paranomasia | a pun or punning |
| penurious | stingy; unwilling to part with money |
| pilcrow | the paragraph symbol |
| propinquity | nearness; having a close familial relationship to |
| pusillanimous | cowardly |
| quidnunc | busybody; one who needs to know everything |
| repast | a meal, the act of eating |
| sapid | having flavor; engaging |
| sesquipedalian | a long word |
| snollygoster | politician concerned with his own interest as opposed to consistent principles |
| sinecure | job that pays a salary, but requires no work |
| somnambulist | sleepwalker |
| sphygmomanometer | entrument used to measure blood pressure |
| tarantism | an uncontrollable urge to dance |
| tintinnabulation | the sound made when bells ring |
| ululate | to wail or howl loudly |
| weltanschauung | a complete philosophy of the universe, world view |
| zephyr | a gentle breeze |
| aleatory | based on chance or uncertain prospect |
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