Semester Vocab
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- stipend
- fixed pay for services; salary;regular allowance awarded a scholarship winner
- folly
- lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking
- lank
- lean
- volition
- will
- curry favor
- seek to gain favor by flattery
- dejected
- sad
- flippant
- treating serious matters lightly
- cajole
- persuade by pleasant words
- harlequin
- buffon
- geopolitics
- study of government and its policies as affected by the government
- wager
- bet
- unwittingly
- unintentionally; by accident
- sordid
- filthy
- venerable
- worthy of respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue,or historical importance
- residue
- rest or remainder of
- replenish
- bring back to condition of being full; refill
- noncarcinogenic
- not producing, or tending to produce, cancer
- travesty
- imitation that makes a serous thing seem rediculous; mockery
- excruciating
- causing great pain or anguish; agonizing
- hamper
- interfere with; hinder; impede
- retort
- answer; reply sharply or angrily
- obsequious
- subservient
- indolent
- disposed to avoid exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic
- scrutinize
- examine verry closely; inspect
- pestilential
- morally harmful
- nonage
- legal minority
- juxtaposition
- closeor side by side position
- slander
- false and defamatory spoken statemen
- unguent
- salve
- peritonitis
- inflammation of thep eritoneum
- therapeutic
- curative
- convivial
- sociable
- prodigious
- extraordinary in amount or size; enormous; gigantic; huge; colossal
- precipitous
- seep as precipice
- pensive
- thoughtful in a sad way
- obsolete
- no longer in use;out-of-date
- gala
- characterized by festivity
- callow
- young and inexperienced
- acquit
- relieve rom accusation perform ones part
- posthumous
- published after the authors death
- scuffle
- brawl; fight
- exaggeration
- overstatement
- lesion
- injury
- senile
- showing the weakeness of age
- eulogize
- praise
- buoy
- keep afloat
- dipsomania
- alcoholism
- dimorphous
- occurring under two distinct forms
- pathetic
- arousing pity
- ecstatic
- in ecstacy
- ericardium
- membranos sac enclosing the heart
- matriarch
- founder
- environs
- suburbs
- raze
- destroy utterly by tearing down; demolish; level
- acclaiim
- welcom with approval
- ameliorate
- become better; make better; improve; enhance
- alacrity
- cheerful willingness; readiness
- baffle
- bewilder; perplesx; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrate
- frolicsome
- full of merriment; playful
- eminent
- standing out
- propinquity
- kinship
- laudatory
- expressing praise
- despise
- look down on with contempt or disgust; loathe; regard as inferior
- osteopath
- practitioner of osteopathy
- consummate
- perfect; superb
- complexity
- difficulty; intricacy
- emaciated
- make thin weaken
- menial
- low mean
- ravine
- deep narrow gorge worn by running water
- peristyle
- the space so enclosed
- contrite
- showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; repentant; remorseful
- convalesce
- recuperate
- dregs
- most worthless part
- ingratiate
- work into favor
- zany
- having characteristics of a clown
- malign
- speak evil of
- Occident
- west; countries of America and Europe
- geophysics
- science treating of the forces that modify the earth
- sully
- tarnish
- cinematography
- art of making motion pictuers
- exalt
- lift upp with joy pride
- unruffled
- calm; cool
- acme
- highest point
- confine
- shut up; imprison
- sweltering
- oppressively hot
- chagrin
- embarrassment
- flotsam
- wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; driftage
- leeward
- in the direction away from the wind
- morbid
- gruesome
- salubrious
- healthful
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- libelous
- defamatory
- lionize
- treat as highly important
- crone
- withered old woman
- filial
- of or like a son or daughter
- plaudit
- applause
- abhorrent
- in conflict;loathsome;rupugnant;odious;abdominable
- pristine
- uncorrupted
- person suffering from insomnia
- insomniac
- stigma
- mark of disgrace
- detonation
- explosion
- consanguinuity
- blood relationship
- ignoramus
- ignorant, stupid person; dunce; dolt; dullard;nincompoop
- plumb
- get to the bottom of
- score
- group or set of twenty; twenty
- nostalgic
- homesick
- fester
- form pus
- subversion
- sabatoge; undermining
- detriment
- injury, damage, or something that causees it; disadvantage
- badger
- tease
- indemnify
- compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay
- glum
- gloomy
- factious
- in the habit of joking
- admonition
- gentle warning; friendly reproof
- nepotism
- favoritism to relatives by thse in power
- primordial
- existing at the very beginning
- gentility
- good manners
- teetotaler
- person who totally abstains from intoxicating beverages
- hoary
- ancient
- blissful
- verry happy
- gullible
- easily deceived or cheated
- invalid
- not binding in lawgaving no force or effect; void; nugatory