RR Vocabulary 4
Terms
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- inundate
- to flood; to overwhelm with overabundance
- convoluted
- complicated; twisted; incoherent
- reprehensible
- deserving great blame; wicked; evil
- intrepid
- brave; fearless; undaunted
- resilient
- quickly bouncing back; flexible under pressure; resolute
- detached
- unemotional; unbiased; objective almost to the point of being indifferent; neutral
- extol
- to praise highly; to commend
- radical
- not moderate; extremely unconventional, and almost heretical
- obstinate
- stubborn; intractable
- tractable
- obedient; easily controlled; amenable
- genial
- friendly; good-natured; kind; sympathetic; gregarious; amiable;
- empathy
- to see and feel things from another person's point of view; sympathetic
- pedantic
- overly academic about minor matters; being a stickler for academic correctness
- proponent
- a supporter; a champion; one who endorses; an advocate
- clandestine
- secret; surreptitious
- adept
- skillful
- wary
- cautious; careful; prudent; circumspect; apprehensive; diffident
- anachronistic
- out of date; extremely old-fashioned way of doing something; dated and no longer needed; obsolete; no longer contemporary
- articulate
- able to express ideas clearly; coherent; lucid
- heresy
- a statement, action, or belief that goes a dominant religion or system of beliefs; more generally, any belief that goes sharply against the accepted viewpoint on a subject; a radically unconventional idea or action