Vocab II
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- incredulity
- disbelief
- dialectic
- systematic reasoning or arguement that juxtaposes opposed or contradictory ideas to resolve their conflict
- implacable
- incapable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated
- intimations
- sublte, delicate, hinted, even unspoken communication
- paradigm
- an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
- halcyon
- calm;peaceful;tranquil;happy;joyful;carefree
- gird
- to encircle or bind with a flexible band(as a belt); to prepare(oneself) for action
- Chastise
- to inflict punishment on (as by whipping); to censure severly;castigate
- zeitgeist
- the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
- wary
- marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness
- voluble
- characterized by ready or rapid speech; glib, fluent, garrulous, talkative
- egregious
- conspicuously, flagrantly bad
- roil
- to make turbid by stirring up the sediment of dregs of; to stir up
- jeremiads
- a prolonged lamentation or complaint; also, a cautionary or angry harangue
- Craven
- lacking the least bit of courage: contempitbly fainhearted
- vaunt
- to make a vain display of one's own worth or attainments; (n) to boast
- inculcate
- to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
- idyll
- a lighthearted carefree episode that is a fit subject for a romantic, pastoral interlude away from hustles