english vocab quiz
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- Acquiesce
- To assent tactily; submit or comply silently or without protets; agree; consent
- Alacrity
- Cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
- Approbation
- Approval; commendation; official approval or sanction
- Asperity
- Harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity, acrimony
- Assiduous
- Constant; unremitting; constant in application or effort
- Celerity
- swiftness; speed
- Chaise
- A light, open carriage, usually with a hood, esp. a one-horse, two-wheeled carriage for two persons
- Condescension
- Patronizingly superior behavior or attitude
- Deference
- Respectful submission or yiedling to the judgment, opinion, will, etc. of another
- Dissemble
- Vb: to give a false or misleading appearance; to conceal the truth or real nature of
- Effusion
- The act of effusing or pouring forth; an unrestrained outpouring of feeling, as in speech or writing
- Entail
- To cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence; to impose as a burden
- Felicity
- The state of being happy, esp in a high degree; bliss
- Hypocritical
- A person characterized by hypocrisy - pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefes, principles, that she/he doesn't have
- Implacable
- Not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable
- Importune
- To press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence
- Iniquitous
- Characterized by injustice of wickedness; wicked; sinful
- Insipid
- Without distinctive, intresting or stimulating qualiites; rapid; bland
- Insolent
- Boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting
- Intrepid
- Resolutely fearless, dauntless
- Laconic
- Using few words, expressing much in few words; concise
- Mercenary
- Working or acting merely for money or other reward; n: a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army
- Mien
- Air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.
- Obsequious
- Characterized by or showing servile complaisance of derence; fawning; obedient
- Odious
- Deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable
- Opinion
- A belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty
- Panegyric
- A lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy; formal praise
- Pedantic
- Ostentatious in one's learning; overly concerned with minute details or formalisms
- Probity
- Integrity and uprightness; honesty
- Profligate
- Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute; recklessly prodigal or extravagant
- Profuse
- Spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess
- Propensity
- A natural inclination or tendency
- Propriety
- Conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners
- Ragout
- A highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables
- Reprehensible
- Deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy
- Supercilious
- Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression
- Tractable
- Easily managed or controlled; docile; easily worked, shaped, or handled