Vocabulary 1-10
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- Clandestine
- adj. kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal, a spy
- Bilk
- verb. defraud, cheat, swindle
- Abatement
- noun. diminution in amount, degree, or intensity; moderation -reduction-
- Arcane
- adj. known or understood by only a few, obscure
- Bourgeois
- noun. adj. Higher, stuck up class.
- Chortle
- noun. verb. a snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle
- Diminutive
- adj. extremly small in size, tiny
- Exacerbate
- verb. increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; to grow tention
- Grovel
- verb. to cringe or beg
- Kinetic
- adj. of, relating to, or produced by motion; energy inside
- Mercurial
- adj. shrewdness, swiftness, of the god Mercury, also UNpredictable
- Obsequious
- adj. fawning over
- Aberrant
- adj. abnormal
- Artless
- adj. having no guile, cunning, deceit, being HONEST
- Bulwark
- noun. a wall or embankment raised as a defensice fortification, a rampart
- Churlish
- adj. befitting a churl, boorish or vulgar, rude, mean
- Expunge
- verb. erase or strike out
- Harangue
- noun. verb. a long pompous speech, befre a gathering, a coach speech...diatribe
- Fortuitous
- adj. happening by accident or chance, lucky
- Lambaste
- verb. give a thrashing to, beatin but VERBAL- verbal scolding
- Odious
- adj. strong dislike towards another person or thing; hatred
- Abet
- verb. to approve, support in wrong doing, encourage
- Ascertain
- verb. discovered as through examination or experimentation
- Disparity
- noun. large difference in anything, mostly intelligence or rank
- Lascivious
- adj. expressing or showing lustfulness
- Misnomer
- noun. an error in naming
- Circumspect
- adj. heedful, prudent, looking for possible consiquences
- Cadence
- noun. Balanced, rhythmic fow, in poetry
- Eclectic
- adj. Having a large variety in taste, sources, systems, or styles
- Fallow
- adj. noun. plowed but left unseeded field
- Harbinger
- noun. verb. indicates foreshadowing, fortune teller, an omen
- Larceny
- noun. theft
- Mitigate
- verb. softened, mild
- Panacea
- noun. cure-all for diseases, evils, difficulties
- Abiding
- adj. to put up with, tolerate
- Baleful
- adj. goomy, depressed
- Canard
- noun. misleading story, false- lie
- Effusive
- adj. epressing exsesive emotion, gushy
- Fervid
- adj. great passion or zeal, passion in work
- Hedonism
- noun. gluttony
- Largess
- noun. large unnessary gift, generosity, to good cause usually
- Modicum
- noun. small amount
- Panache
- noun. dash, flamboyance
- Abscond
- verb. leave quickly and secretly hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution.
- Abyss
- noun. deep chasm, depth, or void
- Bastion
- noun. projecting part of fortification, lasting part, undestructable
- Elicit
- verb. to call forth, draw out, or provoke
- Fidelity
- noun. loyalty, loyalty to doings or deeds
- Idiosyncrasy
- noun. behavioral characteristics, behavior to certain group of people, flashy
- Penumbra
- noun. partial shadow, eclipse,
- Morose
- adj. gloomy, melancholy
- Latitude
- noun. freedom of action or choice
- Accrue
- verb. to come to one as a gain, addition, over time
- Beleaguer
- verb. to harass
- Castigate
- verb. to inflict punishment on. criticize severely
- Defunct
- adj. having ceased to exist or live (no longer in use, old fashion)
- Embellish
- verb. to make beautiful, ornament, decoration,
- Acrimony
- noun. bitter sharp, in speech or behavior
- Lexicon
- noun. a dictionary, list of words
- Impediment
- noun. a hindrance or obstruction, something in the way, defense
- Nebulous
- adj. Cloudy, misty, hazy, not weather, like in mind
- Anomaly
- noun. departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule -strange-
- Antithesis
- noun. direct contrast, opposition, opposite
- Bestial
- adj. Beastly -rudely mean
- Cavort
- verb. Bound or prance about in springing manner, caper, gambol
- Dichotomy
- noun. division into two different parts, like a debate
- Enigma
- noun. One htat is puzzling, ambiguous, inexplicable, tricky
- Impervious
- asj. unable to be penatrated, stopped, not able ot et in the way
- Loinize
- verb. to look on or treat as a celebrity
- Nihilism
- noun. belief of no god, denies all exsistance
- Quagmire
- noun. muddy puddle thing
- Blanch
- verb. to take color, bleach
- Quell
- verb. to put down forcible, suppress
- Bludgeon
- noun. a giant stick, club
- Chagrin
- noun. menatl uneasement, mental embarresment from failure or disappointment
- Didactic
- adj. intended to instruct, over exsessful teaching, or very helpful
- Ersatz
- adj. artificial, fake
- Genteel
- adj. a genteel-man
- Incendiary
- adj. causing or capable of starting a fire
- Macabre
- adj. gruesome, disgusting and grafic
- Noisome
- adj. offensived by disgusting, foul
- Choleric
- adj. easily angered, bad-tempered
- Dilapidated
- adj. Broken down, shabby, neglected
- Esoteric
- adj. intended for on a specific group to understand
- Ethereal
- adj. intangible
- Glower
- verb. stare angrily
- Gratuitous
- adj. given gift, unearned gift, voluntary or free
- Ingratiate
- verb. To Flatter another to geton their good side
- Jaundice
- noun. yellowish discolor in skin or eyes
- Masochist
- noun. getting pleasure from abuse (Sexual)
- Nonchalant
- adj. unconcernded, okay, cool with everything
- Quixotic
- adj. caught up in romance and trying to do deeds tat are impossible
- Renounce
- verb. to give up a title or rank
- Curmudgeon
- noun. ill-tempered hot tempered
- Precocious
- adj. early behavior and physical body changes into maturity, early puberty
- Capitulate
- verb. to surrender under certain reasons
- Gambol
- ver. to frolic
- Coalesce
- verb. to come together, to unite