Vocabulary 7
Terms
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- supine
- adjective-lying on the back, face or front upward.
- ignoble
- adjective-of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
- accede
- verb-to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent; to accede to a request; to accede to the terms of a contract.
- dubious
- adjective-doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- officious
- adjective-objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- endemic
- adjective-natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous: endemic folkways; countries where high unemployment is endemic.
- castigate
- verb-to criticize or reprimand severely.
- indigence
- noun-seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
- languid
- adjective-lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow: a languid manner.
- abstruse
- adjective-hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
- engender
- verb-to produce, cause, or give rise to: Hatred engenders violence.
- duplicity
- noun-deceitfulness in speech or conduct; speaking or acting in two different ways concerning the same matter with intent to deceive; double-dealing.
- lassitude
- noun-weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor.
- invective
- noun-vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- indigenous
- adjective-originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often fol. by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- ominous
- adjective-portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- ignominious
- adjective-marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- captious
- adjective-apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please.
- coeval
- adjective-of the same age, date, or duration; equally old
- subterfuge
- noun-an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.