English Vocab XIII
Terms
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- scatological
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–noun
1. the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
2. obscenity, esp. words or humor referring to excrement.
3. the study of fossil excrement.
Also called coprology. - temerity
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–noun
reckless boldness; rashness. - bathos
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–noun
1. a ludicrous descent from the exalted to the commonplace; anticlimax.
2. insincere pathos(); mawkishness(); maudlin()
3. banality; triteness - intimation
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noun
1: an indirect suggestion;
"not an intimation of scandal ever touched her"
[syn: hint, breath]
2: a slight suggestion or vague understanding;
"he had no intimation what was about to happen"
[syn: inkling, glimmering, glimmer] - firmament
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the vault of heaven; sky. - sarcophagus
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noun
a stone coffin, esp. one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument. - emolument
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noun
payment for employment; compensation for services
Tips are an emolument in addition to wages. - brooding
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–adjective
1. preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts:
a brooding frame of mind.
2. cast in subdued light so as to convey a somewhat threatening atmosphere:
Dusk fell on the brooding hills. - lugubrious
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–adjective
excessively mournful, esp. in an affected manner
lugubrious songs of lost love - dispossess
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verb
1. To deprive (another) of the possession or occupancy of something, such as real property; oust.
2. to abandon ownership of (a building), esp. as a bad investment:
Landlords have dispossessed many old tenement buildings. - diffident
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–adjective
1. lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
2. restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc. - august
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adjective
inspiring awe or admiration; majestic; grand
the august presence of a monarch
an august performance - torpor
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–noun
1. lethargic indifference; apathy.
2. A state of mental/ physical inactivity/insensibility.
3. dormancy, as of a hibernating animal. - maunder
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verb
To talk/move aimlessly; wander. - coven
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noun
an assembly of witches, esp. a group of thirteen. - ruminate
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v.
verb (used with object)
1. to chew again or over and over.
2. to meditate on; ponder. - brusque
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–adjective
abrupt in manner; blunt; rough:
A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return. - amalgam
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noun
1. an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals.
2. a mixture or combination:
His character is a strange amalgam of contradictory traits. - burble
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verb (used without object)
1. to make a bubbling sound; bubble.
2. to speak in an excited manner; babble. - virile
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–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a man; masculine; manly: a vigorous, masculine spirit:
virile strength
a virile literary style.
2. of, pertaining to, or capable of procreation. - patrician
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–adjective
1. aristocratic; of high social rank or noble family.
2. resembling aristocracy in background, education, and refinement:
patrician tastes.
3. pertaining to the powerful families of ancient Rome. - plaintive
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–adjective
expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful:
a plaintive melody. - strafe
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verb
1. to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
2. Slang. to reprimand viciously. - granary
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noun
1. a storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it has been threshed or husked.
2. a region that produces great quantities of grain.