Vocab Quiz Part 2
Terms
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- obscure
- difficult to see, vague
- odious
- deserving hate or contempt
- parry
- to deflect or to ward off a blow
- pedantry
- act of showing off learning in a manner that is needless and unimaginative
- perfunctory
- acting routinely with little interest or care
- perpetuate
- to prolong the existence of something
- phoenix
- person of unmatched beauty; something rising from apparent destruction
- prattle
- meaningless sounds, babble
- proclitvity
- inclination, tendency
- profuse
- extravagantly abundant, flowing freely
- pulverize
- to reduce into small pieces, to demolish
- ravenous
- urgently eager for food; craving satisfaction or gratification
- rend
- to tear violently, to split
- saccharine
- overly sweet attitude
- scythe
- an instrument for cutting or moving
- serene
- calm, placid
- stagnant
- not flowing, foul from not moving
- stoke
- to stir up, to amply feed
- stolid
- showing little emotion
- stratum
- a horizontal layer
- tactile
- perceptible by touch; capable of being felt