Craft 3rd 6 weeks
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- giddy
- dizzy
- censure
- to blame or to condemn
- assent
- to agree or to concur; to give in, to yield; agreement
- irresolute
- indecisive, unsure of how to proceed
- migratory
- moving from place to place, wandering, transient
- indomitable
- incapable of conquered
- affluent
- abounding in wealth; properous; flowing freely
- flout
- to treat with contempt
- boorish
- rude or insensitive; ill mannered
- pungent
- sharp or irritating to the taste or smell; acrid
- tangenial
- slightly connected, divergent
- tacit
- understood, silent, not spoken, implicit
- aggregate
- sum total, whole amount
- spiteful
- full of spite or malice; malicious; malevolent
- mercurial
- changing unpredictably, fickle
- luscious
- very pleasant to the taste
- sporadic
- occasionally occurring
- boon
- favorable; a blessing, a benefit
- rebuff
- to snub or to refuse bluntly
- vagrant
- a wanderer who does not have a home
- adjunct
- something joined or added to a thing but not necessarily a part of it
- emulate
- to try to equal or to be like (usually through imitation)
- congenial
- characterized by friendly sociability
- raucous
- loud and boisterous, harsh, disorderly
- galling
- very irritating
- homely
- plain or unattractive in apperance
- expedient
- appropriate for a purpose but not necessarily moral, right, or just
- pious
- marked by showing zealous devotion to the rites of religion
- partisan
- one who exhibits extreme or possibly blind allegiance to a group or cause
- ratify
- to give formal approval
- approbation
- official approval, praise, commendation
- gravity
- seriousness, importance
- heterogeneity
- state of being dissimilar, composition from unlike elements
- virtuous
- having excellent morals, righteous
- defile
- to make dirty, to desecrate, to pollute
- garner
- to gather together, to store up
- metaphorically
- compared nonliterally
- terrestrial
- of the earth or pertaining to the earth
- incantation
- a spell, written or recited formula or words designed for a particular effect
- buffoon
- a clown, a silly or stupid person
- slovenly
- messy, untidy, careless
- resilient
- ability to return to former state
- delineation
- an outline, depiction, portrayal
- fickle
- likly to change, capricious
- heralded
- announced or publicized
- deft
- skillful, adroit
- antiquity
- the quality of being ancient; ancient times
- stalwart
- one person who supports a cause with firm partisanship
- blanishment
- flattery
- diligent
- characterized by steady, attentive and energetic effort in a pursuit or study
- sagacious
- wise, shrewd, very discerning
- ungainly
- awkward
- indigence
- poverty
- repugnant
- disgusting, offensive
- embroil
- to entangle, to throw into confusion or strife
- taper
- to decrease in thickness or width
- compliance
- a yielding; acquiescence
- disputatious
- inclined to fight, to argue, or to debate
- transcended
- surpassed, exceeded
- indigenous
- native to a certain area
- recalcitrant
- very stubborn, refusing to obey, unruly
- corrugated
- bent into folds
- satiric
- characterized by satire (a branch of literature ridiculing vice or folly)
- panacea
- cure-all, remedy for all ills
- precipitate
- to cause to speedily occur, to throw headlong
- proclivity
- inclination, tendency
- nomadic
- characterized by moving about from place to place as nomads
- contaminant
- something that causes impurity; something that defiles or pollutes
- civility
- polite and courteous behavior
- chasten
- to discipline; to use punishment to correct behavior
- archipelago
- a group of islands
- resolute
- characterized by a decided purpose
- scapegoat
- one who takes the blame for others
- fetter
- to restrict by shackling or chaining
- peruse
- to read or to examine
- dispatch
- to send away with promptness or speed; speed, quickness
- parry
- to deflect or to ward off a blow
- belligerant
- waging war, inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness
- jingoist
- an extreme patriot, usually calls for a belligerant foreign policy
- spurious
- false or deceitful
- prodigy
- one with exceptional talents or powers; an extraordinary accomplishments
- nuance
- a subtle distinction or differance
- tractable
- capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled; obedient
- iconoclast
- one who attacks established beliefs or institutions
- irreproachable
- faultless, not discreditable
- obfuscating
- confusing, making unclear
- chicanery
- unethical methods, trickery
- expurgate
- to remove obscene or objectionable material usually before publication
- whets
- stimulates, sharpens
- circumlocution
- talking around a subject
- prostration
- a stretching out due to lacking vitality and being completely overcome
- deleterious
- harmful; dangerous, injurious
- sectarian
- a member of a sect that is a faction with extreme beliefs
- heretical
- contrary to church doctrine or accepted beliefs or standards
- dissemble
- to disguise, to pretend
- emend
- to correct (usually by a critic)
- anomalous
- out of place, abnormal
- vivacious
- full of life, very animated
- copious
- abundant
- succulent
- very juicy