RR Vocabulary 7
Terms
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- circumspect
- careful; cautious; prudent, wary
- sanguine
- hopeful; buoyant; optimistic
- indigenous
- native; belonging to a particular region and not usually found elsewhere; domestic
- improvise
- to deal with things as they come, without planning
- urbane
- sophisticated; having highly refined manners; decorus
- parochial
- narrow-minded; having a limited outlook; provincial
- expedient
- practical; useful; helpful; simple and efficient; pragmatic
- surreptitious
- not out in the open; sneaky; clandestine, secret
- repressed
- held down or held back; inhibited; suppressed
- vignette
- a brief description of a scene
- adulation
- deep and perhaps excessive admiration
- apathetic
- not caring about something or an outcome, one way or the other; indifferent
- cursory
- hurried and superficial; quick; perfunctory; not meticulous
- terse
- brief and often abruptly to the point; concise
- elude
- to avoid being found or caught, usually by being clever
- vicarious
- living through the experience of another; secondhand
- vapid
- bland and uninteresting; unexciting; dull; uninspired; prosaic; banal; trite; hackneyed
- exonerate
- to free from blame; to vindicate
- intrusive
- butting in; joining in without being wanted; tactless
- ingenuous
- childlike; naive