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