Set 9
Terms
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- discretionary
- subject to one's own judgment
- constituent
- component, part; citizen, voter
- transmute
- to change in appearance or shape
- stand
- group of trees
- bromide
- a dull, commonplace person or idea
- non sequitur
- conclusion not following from apparent evidence
- torsion
- act of twisting and turning
- revelry
- boisterous festivity
- ennui
- boredom, lack of interest and energy
- accrue
- to accumulate, grow by additions
- betoken
- to indicate, signify, give evidence of
- rectitude
- moral uprightness
- coffer
- strongbox, large chest for money
- prognosticate
- to predict
- sycophant
- self-serving flatterer, yes-man
- inviolable
- safe from violation or assault
- extemporaneous
- unrehearsed, on the spur of the moment
- obviate
- to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent
- ignoble
- dishonorable, not noble in character
- refract
- to deflect sound or light
- mettle
- courageousness; endurance
- slough
- to discard or shed
- weighty
- important, momentous
- troupe
- group of actors
- smutty
- obscene, indecent
- hackneyed
- worn out by over-use
- mendicant
- beggar
- secede
- to withdraw formally from an organization
- demystify
- to remove mystery from, clarify
- aperture
- an opening or hole
- fitful
- intermittent, irregular
- autonomous
- separate, independent
- cherubic
- sweet, innocent, resembling a cherub angel
- denude
- to make bare, uncover, undress
- infamy
- reputation for bad deeds
- engender
- to produce, cause, bring about
- philology
- study of words
- saunter
- to amble; walk in a leisurely manner
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome, eager and ready to fight
- laxity
- carelessness
- fracas
- noisy dispute
- viaduct
- series of elevated arches used to cross a valley
- dotage
- senile condition, mental decline
- inter
- to bury
- exculpate
- to clear of blame or fault
- impetuous
- quick to act without thinking
- adversarial
- antagonistic; competitive
- illicit
- illegal, improper
- craven
- cowardly
- interminable
- endless
- grandiloquence
- pompous talk, fancy but meaningless language
- penance
- voluntary suffering to repent for a wrong
- precocious
- unusually advanced at an early age
- approbation
- praise; official approval