Salter Vocab list 2
Terms
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- to make better or tolerable.
- ameliorate
- to increase in intensity, power, or prestige.
- aggrandize
- to combine several elements into a whole.
- amalgamate-
- dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful.
- aesthetic
- a projecting part of a fortification; a fortified area or position.
- bastion
- obscene, lewd: boisterously or humorous indecent.
- bawdy
- to confuse with strong light; to impress forcibly; enchant.
- bedazzle
- to procreate as the father: sire: to produce as an effect or outgrowth.
- beget
- a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch: one ship accompanying another: a group of instruments of the same family, as viols, played in concert
- consort
- to associate; keep company: to agree or harmonize
- consort-
- a concluding passage of a musical composition
- coda
- -handwriting; penmanship
- chirography
- characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through: characterized by extreme delicacy of form: ethereal
- diaphanous
- to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one’s superiority that is involved; to condescend to give or offer
- deign
- the scum that forms on the surface of molten metal; waste or foreign matter: impurity; something that is base, trivial, or inferior
- dross
- having a heavy offensive smell
- foetid or fetid
- to utter or send out with denunciation: to cause to explode
- fulminate
- a foliated metamorphic rock corresponding in composition to granite or some other feldsparic plutonic rock
- gneiss
- poisonous distillation of a herb, possibly henbane
- hebenon
- to go about usually ostentatiously or indiscreetly with members of the opposite sex.
- gallivant
- not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty.
- inexorable
- unwilling to admit or accept what is offered.
- incredulous
- taking on values arbitrarily close but greater than 0.
- infinitesimal
- using or involving Spartan reputation for terseness of speech: using or involving the use of a minimum of words: concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
- laconic
- showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit.
- magnanimous
- a beverage of wine, hot water, sugar, lemon juice and spices: used as a title of the sovereign of Ethiopia
- negus
- One that purveys; victualler; caterer.
- purveyor
- An ornamental tuft on a helmet.
- panache
- Characterized by the assumption of dignity, importance. Artistic distinction. Making unjustified or excessive claims.
- pretentious
- bitter resentment, or ill will: malice
- rancor
- lying down, reclining, leaning, reposing
- recumbent-
- a structure built along a the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place
- quay
- obsequious flattery
- sycophancy
- born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn: cold and steady in mood: slow to act or change.
- saturnine-
- terse, aphoristic or moralistic in __expression: pithy, epigrammatic
- sententious
- to decrease in size, extent, or degree: dwindle
- wane
- deserving to be venerated-used as a title for an Anglican archdeacon or for a Roman Catholic who has been accorded the lowest of the
- venerable
- fatty, oily: smooth and greasy in texture or appearance
- unctuous
- locality in “Kubla Khanâ€, a poem by Samuel T. Coleridge: a place (as a town or village) of idyllic beauty
- Xanadu
- Time past and esp. long past usu. used in the phrase “of yoreâ€
- yore
- eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something: fervor
- zeal
- totero: bullfighter
- toreador
- a substance that colors, dyes, or stains
- tincture
- a servant slave: bondman: serf: a person in moral or mental servitude
- thrall
- a surveyor’s instrument for measuring horizontal and usually vertical angles
- theodolite
- foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action
- quixotic
- asinine
- marked by inexcusable failure to exercise intelligence or sound judgment; of or relating to, or resembling an ass
- aquiline
- of or relating to, or resembling an eagle; curved like an eagles beak
- inscrutable
- not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood: mysterious
- hubris
- exaggerated pride or self-confidence often resulting in retribution