Summer vocab
June 13
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- latter
- more advanced in time, near or comparatively near to the end
- meticulous
- taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough
- platitudes
- a cliché that is expressed as significant
- aplomb
- poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularity
- bromides
- a trite or obvious remark
- eminent
- high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished
- vitriol
- something highly caustic or sever in effect, as criticism
- imminent
- likely to occur at any moment
- venerable
- respectable due to age
- cursory
- rapidly and often superficially performed or produced; hasty
- refutes
- argues against
- exuberance
- the quality or state of being excessive
- admonish
- warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; reprove
- distinguished
- made conspicuous by excellence; noted; eminent; famous
- tenable
- widely held
- dilettante
- an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
- vindicate
- to clear from blame, avenge, confirm, substantiate
- wistful
- characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning
- elegiac
- expressing sorrow
- fastidious
- having high and often capricious standards; difficult to please
- transient
- lasting for a short time
- avidity
- keen eagerness; consuming greed
- antecedent
- anything that precedes something similar in time