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vocabULARY#4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asethic | relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art |
| Aloof | apart;indifferent |
| Archaico | antiquated,old out of use |
| Assuage | to ease,to mitigate,to make less painful or burdensome,to calm |
| Belie | to contradict, to give a false impression |
| Contentious | quarrelsome,strring controversy |
| Daunt | to intimidate,to dismay |
| Debilitate | to weaken,to enfeeble |
| Discord | lack of agreement,tension,strife |
| Dissemination | the act of spreading widely;scattering |
| Dogmatic | strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner |
| Duplicity | double-dealing, hypocrisy |
| Egocentric | self-ceneterd,selfish |
| Euphemism | substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive |
| Gluttonous | greedy for food and drink |
| Mundane | ordinary,commomplace |
| Ominous | threating |
| Petulance | unreasonable touchiness or irritability |
| Pompous | exaggerated show dignity or self-importance,bombastic |
| Precocious | expectionally early in development or occurence |
| Slothful | lazy,indolent |
| Trivia | insignificant matters |
| Verbose | wordy,very talkative |
| Virulent | extermely poisionous;hateful |
| Volatile | quickly changeable,easily vaporized |