Emory Vocab
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- banal
- lacking force or originality
- akimbo
- having your hand on the hip and elbow turned outward
- calumnies
- a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
- impudence
- not showing due respect for another person
- bodice
- part of a dress above the waist
- tacit
- understood without being openly expressed
- harangued
- to lecture
- osier
- the flexible twig of a willow tree
- bade
- commanded
- usurers
- a person who lends money at high interest rates
- supercilious
- having or showing arrogant behavior of superiority
- scurrilous
- using or given to coarse language
- supplanting
- to supersede another especially by force or treachery
- perfunctory
- lacking in interest or enthusiasm
- flagons
- a large usually metal vessel (as for wine) w. a handle + spout + often a lid
- exhumed
- to bring back from neglect
- propitiation
- the act of gaining or regaining the favor or goodwill of
- Viceroy
- a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign
- loquacious
- talking or tending to talk much or freely
- obsequious
- complacent; obedient