10 H Vocabulary - List 20
Terms
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- ingenuous
- adj - innocent and childlike, especially in being frank, honest and incapable of deception
- disingenuous
- adj - not entirely sincere or open; creating a false impression of frankness
- ossify
- verb - 1 to turn into or make something turn into bone or a bonelike substance. 2 said of one's opinions or habits, etc: to become rigid, fixed or inflexible
- pulsate (with)
- verb - 1 to beat or throb. 2 to contract and expand rhythmically. 3 to vibrate
- sardonic
- adj - mocking or scornful; sneering
- sybarite
- noun - someone devoted to a life of luxury and pleasure
- animadversion
- noun - criticism or censure
- collusion
- noun - secret and illegal co-operation for the purpose of fraud or other criminal activity, etc.
- egoist
- noun - a person who believes in self-interest as a moral principle
- egotist
- noun - a self-centerd person
- egotistical
- adj - self-centerd
- gormandize
- verb - to eat greedily; to guzzle
- inherent (in)
- adj - existing as an essential, natural or permanent part
- meticulous
- adj - paying, or showing, very careful attention to detail; scrupulously careful
- parasite
- noun 1 a plant or animal that for all or part of its life obtains food and physical protection from a living organism of another species which is usually damaged by and never benefits from its presence. 2 a person who lives at the expense of others, contributing nothing in return
- quixotic
- adj - 1 absurdly generous or chivalrous. 2 naively romantic, idealistic or impractical
- secular
- adj - 1 relating to the present world rather than to heavenly or spiritual things. 2 not religious or ecclesiastical; civil or lay
- tantamount (to)
- adj - producing the same effect or result as something; as good as it; equivalent to it