PLAR Vocab Set 2
Terms
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- passive assent or agreement without protest
- acquiescence
- great astonishment or consternation
- stupefaction
- to split into thin layers
- delaminate
- naggingly critical or complaining
- carping
- difficult to understand; recondite
- abstruse
- a framed opening fitted with horizontal slats for admitting air and light and shedding rain
- louvered
- effusively or tearfully sentimental
- maudlin
- impressively great in size, force, or extent
- prodigious
- being kind, charitable, or beneficial
- beneficence
- mischievous; causing trouble, injury, or damage
- impish
- exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold
- impertinence
- having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness
- sagacious
- to dry up
- exsiccate
- an outflow from a sewer; something that flows out or forth
- effluent
- to rend or tear apart; to break in to pieces; cleave or split asunder
- riven
- excessively and objectionably sentimental; sickening or insipid in taste
- mawkish
- any of numerous textile patterns consisting of stripes of varying widths and colors crossed at right angles against solid backgrounds
- tartan
- having knowledge of actions or events before they occur
- prescient
- severity or sternness in disposition or appearance
- austerity
- dashingly or sportingly stylish; jaunty
- rakish