vocab 4
Terms
undefined, object
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- club, clus
- shut
- seclude
- to keep apart from others; to hide, isolate make private
- amorphous
- shapeless without definite form of no particular type or character without organization unity or cohesion
- proverbial
- well- known notorious having nature of a proverb
- contraband
- illegal traffic smuggle goods// illegal prohibited
- affable
- courteous and pleasant sociable easy to speak to
- phyllotaxis
- the arrangment of leaves on a stem
- specter
- a ghost apparition or threatening possibility
- auspicious
- fortunate favorable a good omen
- ad verbum
- word for word
- taxidermy
- the art or mounting dead animals so they look alive
- erudite
- scholaryly learned bookish pedantic
- sleazy
- thin or flimsy in texture cheap shoddy or inferior in quality or character ethically low mean or disreputable
- recluse
- a person who withdraws from society
- resilient
- able to reutrn to an orginal shape or form able to recover quickly
- remonstarte
- to argue or plead with someone against something protest against object to
- querluous
- peevish complaining fretful
- gossamer
- thin light delicate insubstantial // very then light cloth
- digression
- a downward movement in steps orr stages
- malocculsion
- abnormal closure of the upper and lower teethq
- verbose
- using more words than necessary wordy with too many words overly full of words with more words then needed very very very full of words
- conspicuous
- obvious, attracting special attention
- aggrandize
- to increase in greatness power or wealth to build up or intensify to make appear greater
- verb
- word
- infer
- to find out by reasoning to arrive at a conculsion on the basis of thought to hint to suggest to imply
- scurrilous
- coarsely abusive vulgar or low (especially in language) foul-mouthed
- inscrutable
- incapable of being understood impossible to see through physically
- insular
- relating to characteristic of or situated on an isalnd narrow or isolated in outlook or experience
- retrogress
- to go backward to a less adavnced condition
- exclude
- to shut out
- repudiate
- to disown reject or deny the vailidity of
- gress gard gradl grade
- step
- irrevocable
- incapable of being changed or called back
- transgress
- to go beyond a boundary to violate a law or command
- syntax
- the arrangement of owrds in a sentence
- propensity
- a natrual inclination or predilection toward
- parataxis
- the arrangement of clauses or phrases without a conjunction
- sedulous
- persistent showing industry and determination
- verbatim et literatim
- word for word and letter for letter
- aura
- that which surrounds as an atmosphere a distinctive air or personal quality
- gardin
- one or series of steps raised in tiers as in a theatre
- tax/o
- arrangement
- introspect
- to examine one's own thought (
- spec,spect,spic
- look see
- reverberate
- to re-echo resound to reflect or to be reflected repeatebly