test 5a
Terms
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- feign
- to make a false appearance of; pretend; to make up; facbricate
- punctilious
- scrupulous, exact
- circumstantial
- of relating to,or affected by conditions, factors, or events; incidental
- crucial
- extremely important; decisive; critical
- abyss
- a bottomless or deep space
- conformity
- behavior, action, or thought in agreement with current customs rules standard or styles similarity agreement
- equivocate
- to use ambiguous language, to avoid making an exact statement
- gaudy
- tasteless brightly colored or showy
- vitality
- the power to live grow or develop; mental, or physical vigor; energy
- innumerable
- too many to be countes
- mien
- a person's appearance, bearing, or manner, especially as it shows character or feeling
- participate
- to take part in or have a share with others
- sedition
- language or action causing discontent
- dispatch
- a written message sent with speed; a news story by a reporter to new service
- muse
- a source of inspiration; the spirit that inspires a poet or a writer
- tete-a-tete
- a private conversation between two people
- motivate
- to move to action
- entomb
- to place in a tomb, grave, or chamber; to bury
- prelude
- anything serving as an introduction; a short piece of music before a concert
- tawny
- brownish yellow tan
- addendum
- something that is added addition
- wane
- to decrease gradually; to decline in power, importance, or influence
- scrutiny
- a close, careful, or critical examination or study
- gargantuan
- gigantic; enormous; huge
- inadvertent
- unintentional, accidental, not attentive; heedless
- accolade
- an expression of approval such as praise, an award to meet and discuss together
- reversible
- capable of being turned around, upside down inside out or changed tot he opposite; wearable or usable on either side
- prodigious
- impressively great in size, force or extent; enormous, extraordinary
- gait
- a way of walking, running or stepping; the way a horse moves
- cascade
- a small steep waterfall
- peer
- an equal; a person of the same age or rank as another
- squalid
- foul unclean or sordid
- girth
- a measure around something
- surplus
- an extra amount of something; an excess
- discernible
- able to be made out clearly
- inqusitive
- eager to fin out information; curious
- belligerent
- eager to fight; hostile
- abate
- to lessen in amount force, degree, or intensity
- navigation
- the art or science of directing the course or location the position of a ship
- quibble
- to argue evasively--(n) a petty evasion
- incohernt
- difficult to understand; mixed up
- persecute
- to subject to cruel, harmful, or unjust treatment, specially because of race, religion or beliefs
- interpolate
- to change (a text) by inserting new words or material; to insert new material
- extenuation
- the act of trying to lessen the seriousness of something, especially by giving partial excuses
- cryptic
- having a secret or puzzling meaning; mysterious; baffling
- confer
- to give as a gift or honor; to award, to meet and discuss together
- sheepish
- embarrassed shy timid
- sobriquet
- a nickname; an assumed named
- foment
- to stir up; to instigate
- prevarication
- an evasion of the truth; a lie