vocab #7
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- Sybarite
- a person addicted to luxury and pleasure
- Restive
- restlessly impatient, obstinately resisting control; uneasy
- Sensuous
- giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses
- Vagary
- an extravagant, erratic, or unpredictable notion, action, or occurrence
- Abnegation
- to refuse or deny oneself
- Abstruse
- hard to understand
- Affront
- a deliberately offensive act; display of disrespect
- Venal
- capable of being corrupted; able to be purchased; open to bribery
- Tirade
- a speech that makes a formal accusation against something; a long, angry or scolding speech
- Stolid
- having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
- Sardonic
- characterized by bitter or scornful ridicule; mocking
- Contumely
- a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; insulting
- Acrid
- harsh or corrosive in tone; sharp or bitter
- Vitiated
- ruined in character or quality
- Vicarious
- suffered received or done by another
- Chagrin
- strong feelings of embarrassment; marked by dissappointment or humiliation
- Clandestine
- conducted in secrecy, especially for purposes of deception
- August
- majestic, awe-inspiring; of supreme dignity
- Cacophony
- loud confusing disagreeable sounds; meaningless mixture of sounds
- Anachronism
- something or someone that is not in its correct chronological or historical time; esp.one that belongs to an earlier time