Week 2 vocab
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- Embellish
- to decorate
- florid
- describing flowery or elaborate speech
- opulent
- exhibiting a display of great wealth
- ornate
- elaborately decorated
- ostentatious
- describing a showy display
- poignant
- touching
- ebullience
- intense enthusiasm
- effusive
- emotionally unrestrained; gushy
- egregious
- conspicuously bad; offensive
- flagrant
- extremely shocking or noticeable
- frenetic
- wildly excited; active
- gratuitous
- given freely; unearned
- superfluous
- extra; unnecessary
- alleviate
- to ease a pain or burden
- asylum
- a place of retreat or security
- auspicious
- favorable ; promising
- benevolent
- well meaning ; generous
- benign
- kind and gentle
- emollient
- adj - softening; smoothing n- to soften or smoothe
- mollify
- to calm or soothe
- reclamation
- the act of making something useful again
- sanction
- to give official authorization or approval
- dubious
- doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
- fabricated
- made; concocted in order to deceive
- slander
- false charges and malicious oral statements about someone
- spurious
- not geniuine ; false; counterfeit
- astute
- shrewd; clever
- camouflage
- to hide by blending in with surroundings
- clandestine
- secretive
- coup
- a brilliantly executed plan
- disingenuous
- not straightforward; crafty
- ruse
- a crafty trick
- stratagem
- a clever trick used to deceive or outwit
- surreptitious
- done by secretive means
- wary
- on guard; watchful
- wily
- cunning
- ambiguous
- open to more than one interpretation
- apathetic
- feeling or showing little emotion
- arbitrary
- determined by impulse rather than reason
- capricious
- impulsive and unpredictable
- equivocate
- to avoid making a definite statement
- indifferent
- not caring one way or the other
- spontaneous
- unplanned; naturally occuring
- whimsical
- subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
- inconsequential
- unimportant
- superficial
- concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
- tenuous
- shaky; unsure; weak
- trivial
- of little importance or significance