Vocabulary #4
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- run down or worn look
- haggard
- look for perfection
- fastidious
- harmful
- noxious
- uneasy feeling
- qualm
- very friendly, sociable
- gregarious
- character flaw
- foible
- long, boring speech
- litany
- submit or give in
- acquiesce
- to request
- elicit
- natural leader, likeable
- charismatic
- to outcast, exclude
- ostracize
- in secret
- clandestine
- comfort
- solace
- night dwelling
- nocturnal
- self centeredness
- narcissism
- irritable, quick to fight
- fractious
- to steal small things
- pilfer
- hated
- contemptible
- to gain
- accrue
- cut off or shortened
- truncated
- good at deception
- wily
- guilty pleasure
- decadent
- extreme hatred
- rancor
- gift from family of bride
- dowry
- female commander
- imperatrix
- shameless
- impudent
- a split between opposites
- dichotomy
- bold, harsh
- brazen
- thinking happily on past experiences
- nostalgic
- power or authority
- jurisdiction
- movable bridge from ship to shore
- gangplank
- one who brings about change
- catalyst
- one humped camel
- dromedary
- desire to acheive
- ambition
- long, angry speech
- tirade
- separating
- threshing
- without morals
- licentious
- living in a closed off way
- cloistered
- a lot
- myriad
- cloudy or muddy
- turbid
- one who lends money
- usurers
- unaware
- naive
- timid, or shy
- diffident
- at fault
- culpable
- charity
- philantrophy
- standing around with no purpose
- loitering
- successful
- prosperous
- always seeking fault
- captious
- to tell or reveal
- divulge
- bankruptcy
- insolvency
- guided by whim, sudden feeling
- capricious
- secret, undercover
- covert
- causing sleepiness
- soporific
- relevent
- germane
- secret or sneaky
- surreptitious
- swamp
- mire
- two, in cooperation
- tandem
- offensive
- fulsome
- to pass through
- permeate
- to diminsh or stop
- abate
- someone unconventional
- bohemian
- sudden overwhelming attack
- onslaught
- to go around
- circumvent
- to beg
- implore
- mindless
- vacous
- nervous, easily frightened
- skittish
- extremely loud
- stentorian
- mixed feelings for a situation
- ambivalent
- shockingly evil or ugly
- heinous
- remaining silent
- reticent
- unbelievable
- incredulous
- sly or stealthy
- furtive
- beast like
- bestial
- tender emotions
- sentimentality
- discontent
- chagrin
- cheerfully optimistic
- sanguine
- loss of strength
- effete
- sneaky or underhand behavior
- skullduggery
- mature for your age
- precocious
- to destroy
- eradicate