Senior Year Vocab Test 2
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- acolytes
- A novice in a religous order; attendant or assistant at the altar
- august
- Highly dignified; imposing; eminent; majestic; grandeur
- brio
- Having vigor in life; vivacity. might, strength
- disingenuous
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Not straight forward or honest; deceitful; crafty
Lacking frankness or candor - efficacy
- The ability to produce the desired results, pertaining particularly to politics
- euphemism
- The use of a mild word in place of a possibly offensive one; word substitution
- exemplary
- Serving as a model for others; worthy of imitation
- fastidiious
- hard to please; critical; demanding
- hibernated
- Passed the winter in seclusion; retired; withdrawn
- impugning
- Challenging something as false; criticizing; maligning
- insidious
- OPerating steathily with evil affect or intent; trecharous or deceitful
- logarithms
- Exponents that must be applied to a fixed number to get a given number
- magnanimity
- Generous; high minded; noble; forgiving an injury
- meglomania
- Mania or delusion of wealth or greatness
- obsequious
- Fawning; servile; deferential; psychophantic
- phelgmatic
- Apathetic; unexcitable; pertaining to slugishness
- presumptuous
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Arrogant or overbold; imperious; dictatorial
Take for granted - supercilious
- Haughtily contempuous; arrogant; scornful
- vernacular
- Native or common language of a place; colloquial
- viscerally
- Intensely emotional
- aphrodisiacs
- Foods, drugds, etc that arouse sexual desire
- affable
- Pleasently easy to approach and talk to; warm; cordial
- bereft
- deprived of something; lacking; needing; destituted
- cadence
- Rhythmic flow of words or sounds
- catatonic
- A syndrome frequent in schizophrenics, characterized by muscle rigidity and mental stupor
- charades
- A game in which words or phrases are represented in pantonine until they are guessed by other players
- carnal
- pertaining to or characterized by flesh of the body; its passions and appetities, sensual.
- clandestine
- Done in or executed with secrecy for purposes of deception, covert, stealthy, surrptious
- enmity
- A feeling or condition of hostility, animosity, or antagonism
- furtively
- Taken, done, used, etc by stealth
- fortitude
- Mental or emotional strength in facing adversity. Power to endure pain or hardship
- intrepid
- Resolutely fearless; dauntless; invulnerable to intimidation
- innuendoes
- An indirect or subtle implication in expression, an insinuation
- leviathans
- Something unusually large of its kind, usually a ship
- ludicrous
- Causing laughter because of absurdity
- peremptory
- Leavning no opportunity for denial or refusal
- stident
- Making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking
- supplicating
- To pray humnly; to make humble and earnest entreaty
- tremulous
- Characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness; timdid
- wizened
- Withered or shriveled; to dry out
- Assignations
- An appointment between to lovers, typically secret. Designating some with an assisgment or task.
- bellicose
- ready or inclined to quarrel, fight, or go to war with; pugnacious
- bovine
- Relaitng to genus of ruminant animals, cows, oxen
- caterwaul
- To make a loud howling noise; screech; wail
- guava
- Tropical fruit used to make jellies
- gumbo and okra
- A stew of fish, poultry, or meat that has been thicked with okra(green pods)
- milieu
- The surroundings or environment that somebody lives in
- impolitic
- Likely to be disadvantageous and not admirable
- incredulous
- Unable to believe something; completely uncnvinced, skeptical
- inert
- Not moving or not able to move; inactive; sluggish
- inarticulateness
- Inability to express oneself clearly with words
- officiously
- Informal, especially in political dealings
- phalaropes
- Small wading bird that is related to the sandpiper
- rapacious
- Greedy, especially for money and willing to use unethical means to obtain what is desired
- resolute
- Possessing determination and purposefulness
- rectitude
- Strong moral integrity in character or actions
- synoptic
- Constituting a general view of the whole of a subject
- turgid
- Pompous, boring, and overcomplicated; bombastic, swollen, distended, timid, inflated
- visceral inchoate
- Instinctively motivated; rudimentry, disorganized