LA vocab
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- pretentcious
- marked by conciet or showy display
- succinct
- expressed in few words; concise
- acrid
- harshly pungent or bitter
- recondite
- dealing with difficult subjects
- reticent
- reluctant or restrained; reserved
- fortuitous
- happening or produced by chance; accidental
- clamorous
- urgent in complaint or demand
- reciprocate
- to give and take mutually
- atone
- to make amend for to correct wrong
- acquiesce
- to comply or yield unwillingly
- efficacious
- effective
- complacent
- self satisfied; to please greatly
- eccentric
- deviating from the recognized or custimary character, practice, etc; irregular, odd
- assiduous
- diligent; constant in effort to accomplish something
- pious
- having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence of God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations
- vituperative
- scolding or talking about in an extremely harsh way
- affable
- friendly and easy to approach
- lugubriousness
- sadness or mournfulness, especially in an exaggerated way
- abnegate
- to renounce (a right or priviledge)
- copious
- plenteous or plentiful
- presentiment
- a feeling that something, especially of evil nature, is about to take place
- melancholy
- a gloomy state of mind, especially when prolonged or habitual; depression
- precocious
- unusually advanced or mature in developement, especially mental developement
- pestilence
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- ubiquitious
- existing or being everywhere especiall at the same time
- beguile
- to influence by trickery; to mesmerize or charm
- querulous
- habitually complaining
- ocular
- of, pertaining to or for the eyes; of the nature of an eye
- preconceive
- to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudices
- feign
- to give a false impression of; to pretend
- taciturn
- disinclined to conversation
- mundane
- common or ordinary; unimmaginative
- caitiff
- cowardly
- conundrum
- anything that puzzles
- adversary
- enemy; opponent; one who turns against you
- supplicate
- to beg
- deplorable
- deeply regrettable, unfortunate
- ostentatious
- intended to attract notice; an attempt to impress others
- inconspicuous
- not conspicuous, noticiable, or prominent
- imperative
- absolutely necessary
- pretext
- something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object
- restive
- restless; difficult to manage
- abberant
- devious; eccentric
- arbitrary
- subject to individual will or judgement w/o restriction; determined by chance
- corrigible
- capable of restoration
- mendacious
- untrue
- languid
- relaxed
- impede
- to interfer with the progress of; to obstruct
- ardent
- burning with passion
- vigilence
- alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger
- emulate
- to imitate with intent to equal or surpass
- amoral
- lacking a sense of right and wrong
- paltry
- pracically worthless;insignificant
- facetious
- not meant to be taken seriously; a bit sarcastic
- insatiable
- that desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably
- misanthropic
- hating mankind
- rudimentary
- pertaining to first principles; elementary
- countenance
- appearance especially the look or expression of the face
- conciliate
- to win friendship through pleasant behavior
- comely
- handsome
- odious
- hateful
- petulant
- Displaying impatience
- commodious
- comfortably or conviently spacious
- wan
- showing or suggesting ill health, fatigue, unhappiness
- adoration
- profound devotion
- assailant
- one who attacks
- acrimonious
- harsh in speech in manner
- cloistered
- sheltered or shut out from the world
- uncanny
- having or seeming to have supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal
- jovial
- merry
- precarious
- dependent
- sequacious
- ready to be led
- staid
- quiet,dignified, and serious
- redunant
- exceeding what is necessary or normal
- volatile
- changeable
- cadaverously
- gauntly, haggardly
- quandary
- a puzzling predicament
- abash
- to make ashamed
- presumptions
- assuming too much
- mettlesome
- having courage or spirit
- equivocator
- one who avoids committing oneself in what one says