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MAT vocab 2
| vocab | definition |
|---|---|
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| abnegation | self-denial |
| abrogate | to break (a law) |
| acumen | keenness |
| adjure | to command solemnly; to beg |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow; to obscure |
| aestivate | spend the summer inactive |
| anneal | to toughen |
| apocryphal | doubtful |
| aquiline | hooked like an eagle's beak |
| arrogate | to seize without reason; to usurp |
| artifice | cleverness; ingenuity |
| attenuate | lessen in amount or force |
| bellicose | inclined to start wars |
| bromidic | lacking originality |
| bucolic | relating to rural life |
| bumptious | aggresive in an offensive way |
| cabal | group united to plot an overthrow |
| calumny | a lie about another person |
| captious | critical; fault-finding |
| cavil | to nitpick |
| chauvinism | excessive or blind patriotism |
| chimerical | wildly fanciful |
| cloy | to satiate |
| collusion | a secret (illegal) agreement |
| cynosure | the center of interest |
| defalcate | to embezzle |
| denouement | the outcome of events |
| desultory | lacking plan or purpose; random |
| diaphanous | sheer; delicate |
| dilatory | tending to cause delay |
| dilettante | one involved in many things, none seriously |
| dint | a force or power |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| doughty | fearless; valiant |
| effete | exhausted, worn-out |
| endue | to provide, endow |
| enervate | to exhaust or weaken |
| exculpate | to clear of guilt |
| fervid | intense in feeling or emotion |
| foment | to instigate or arouse |
| froward | disobedient |
| fugacious | short-lived |
| fulminate | to denounce; to explode |
| glabrous | smooth; without hair |
| hirsute | hairy |
| hyaline | transparent; glassy |
| impecunious | having little or no money |
| incommodious | troublesome; inconvenient |
| inculcate | to teach by repetition |
| inimical | hostile; unfriendly |
| jocose | humorous; witty |
| lambent | flickering; softly lit |
| littoral | relating to the shore |
| lugubrious | gloomy; sorrowful |
| meretricious | attractive on the surface; superficial |
| miasma | a corrupting influence |
| nugatory | inconsequential; trifling |
| nuncupative | not written; oral |
| obfuscate | to confuse |
| onus | a burden; an obligation |
| opprobrium | disgrace due to a shameful act |
| perfidious | faithless; disloyal |
| peripatetic | wandering; itinerant |
| poltroon | a coward |
| puerile | childish; juvenile |
| pusillanimous | cowardly; fearful |
| querulous | complaining; whining |
| recidivism | repeated activity, esp. criminal |
| risible | capable of producing laughter |
| sidereal | related to the stars |
| soporific | marked by sleepiness; drowsy |
| splenetic | easily angered |
| sybaritic | voluptuous; sensual |
| venal | corruptible |
| venial | forgivable |
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