Midterm Vocabulary 2
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- Ambiguous
- doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness
- Anonymity
- the quality or state of being anonymous. (not named or identified)
- Apprehension
- suspicion or fear especially of future evil
- Ardent
- characterized by warmth of feeling typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity
- Auspicious
- Attended by favorable circumstances
- Aversion
- a feeling of repugnance (strong dislike) toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it
- Brooding
- a of a bird : to brood eggs or young b : to sit quietly and thoughtfully
- Balmy
- Having the qualities of balm [an aromatic preparation (as a healing ointment)]
- Boding
- A feeling of evil to come
- Censure
- a judgment involving condemnation (blame)
- Chaotic
- a state of utter confusion
- Coercion
- the act, process, or power of coercing (to restrain or dominate by force)
- Coherently
- logically or aesthetically ordered or integrated
- Commiserate
- to feel or express sympathy
- Commune
- to communicate intimately
- Conjectures
- a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork
- Conniving
- to pretend ignorance of or fail to take action against something one ought to oppose
- Contemptuously
- manifesting, feeling, or expressing contempt (the act of despising)
- Cower
- to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays
- Coyness
- shrinking from contact or familiarity; marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness
- Devoid
- being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment
- Din
- a loud continued noise
- Dirge
- a song or hymn of grief or lamentation
- Elusive
- tending to evade grasp or pursuit
- Expendable
- normally used up or consumed in service
- Fallible
- capable of making a mistake
- Fastidious
- having high and often capricious standards: difficult to please
- Flail
- to strike with or as if with a flail
- Germane
- being at once relevant and appropriate
- Heretic
- one who dissents from an accepted belief or doctrine
- Imperceptibly
- not perceptible by a sense or by the mind: extremely slight, gradual, or subtle
- Implicitly
- capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed
- Imploring
- to call upon in supplication
- Incredulously
- unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
- Indelible
- that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased
- Inexplicable
- incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for
- Insolence
- the quality or state of being insolent (insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct)
- Interminable
- having or seeming to have no end; especially : wearisomely protracted
- Languid
- drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion
- Makeshift
- a usually crude and temporary expedient
- Melancholy
- causing or tending to cause sadness or depression of mind or spirit
- Naïveté
- 1 : a naive remark or action 2 : the quality or state of being naive
- Notorious
- generally known and talked of; especially: widely and unfavorably known
- Palpable
- capable of being touched or felt
- Patronize
- to adopt an air of condescension toward: treat haughtily or coolly
- Perpetrate
- to bring about or carry out (as a crime or deception)
- Perpetuate
- to make perpetual (continuing forever) or cause to last indefinitely
- Persevere
- To persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement