SHERWOOD FINAL 10CP
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- Subjugate
- Put down by force or intimidation
- Befuddle
- To confuse ; perplex
- Exodus
- A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment
- Odium
- Hatred
- Obstreperous
- Aggressivly, Boisterous
- Epicurean
- Taking pleasure in food and drink
- Raconteur
- A person skilled at telling stories
- Nocturnal
- Having to do with night
- Discordant
- Not in agreement or harmony
- Tenuous
- Having little substance or significance
- Linguistics
- The scientific study of the structure of sounds
- Explicit
- precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
- Epistle
- especially a long, formal letter
- Naive
- Simple in outlook
- Juggernaut
- An indestructable wrecking force
- Pusillanimous
- Cowardly ; fearfull
- Complacement
- Self-satisfied ; smug
- Adulation
- servile flattery
- Invective
- Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
- Zephyr
- A slight wind (usually refreshing)
- Evince
- give expression to
- Chutzpah
- Nerve ; Audacity
- Sycophant
- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
- Precocious
- Showing signs of early development
- Grandiloquent
- puffed up with vanity
- Culinary
- Having to do with food
- Vindicate
- Show to be right by providing justification or proof
- Burgeon
- Grow and flourish
- Pliable
- Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
- Latent
- potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
- Xenophobia
- An irrational fear of foreigners or strangers
- Bask
- To expose oneself to pleasent warmth
- Hoax
- A practical joke
- Gadfly
- a persistently annoying person
- Ominous
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- Grimace
- Facial expression showing dislike
- Indiscreet
- Not wise or judicious
- Implacable
- incapable of being pacified; impossible to appease; Ex. implacable enemy
- Mellifluous
- Having a rich, smoothly flowing sound
- Tacturn
- Quiet; silent; uncommuncative
- Irreverent
- Not revering god
- Coup
- A brilliant and notable success
- Arbiter
- A person with the ability to resolve a disagreement
- Archtype
- An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype
- Enraptured
- Delighted beyond measure
- Prodigal
- A recklessly extravagant consumer
- Impregnable
- Able to withstand attack
- Agnostic
- One who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality
- Uncanny
- Beyond what is natural
- Quixotic
- Very idealistic; impractical ; caught up in romantic emotions
- Preditory
- Inclined to prey on others
- Terse
- Brief and to the point
- Exhort
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- Fallacy
- A mistaken notion
- Expedite
- Speed up the progress of
- Scourge
- Something causes misery or death
- Audacity
- aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery
- Fickle
- Likely to change on a whim
- Plebeian
- A commoner ; one from the lower class
- Penitent
- Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
- Vagary
- Unpridictable
- Levity
- Lightness of disposition
- Raillery
- Good-humored banter or teasing
- Pugnacious
- Eager and ready to fight
- Incarerate
- To place in prison
- Torpid
- Slow and apathetic
- Agrarian
- relating to rural matters
- Circumvent
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- Hurtle
- Make a thrusting forward movement
- Pertinent
- being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
- Verdant
- Fresh and green
- Rabble
- A disorderly crowd, a mob
- Renegade
- A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
- Retribution
- The act of correcting for your wrongdoing
- Novice
- Someone new at something
- Bawdy
- lewd or obscene talk or writing
- Pernicious
- working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
- Barrister
- a British lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law
- Filibuster
- A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- Acquit
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- Mundane
- Commonplace
- Parsimonious
- Excessively thrifty
- Affable
- diffusing warmth and friendliness
- Clandestine
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- Liege
- A lord, master, or sovereign
- Hue
- Shade of color
- Dolorous
- Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
- Laudable
- Worthy of praise
- Frugal
- avoiding waste
- Chastise
- censure severely
- Formidable
- extremely impressive in strength or excellence
- Harangue
- a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
- Prowess
- Superior skill or ability
- Hyperbole
- Words with same spelling different meaning
- Oeuvre
- The complete work of an artist
- Pandimonium
- Wild disorder, noise or confusion
- Verbose
- Using more words than needed
- Confluence
- A coming together of people
- Myraid
- many, a multitude
- Vindictive
- Seeking revenge ; bearing a grudge
- Secular
- concerning those not members of the clergy
- Circumspect
- Heedful of potential consequences
- Amicable
- Friendly , Peaceable
- Vacuous
- Lacking intelligence
- Crass
- Coarse ; Tastless
- Charlatan
- One who pretends to have knowledge
- Caustic
- Any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
- Quell
- To put an end to
- Galvanize
- to stimulate to action
- Pithy
- Concise and full of meaning
- Pique
- To cause resentment ; to provoke
- Deprecate
- belittle
- Maritial
- Having to do with marriage
- Hypercritical
- Over critical ; too severe in punishment
- Altercation
- noisy quarrel
- Lexicon
- a language user's knowledge of words
- Sanction
- a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards
- Avid
- marked by active interest and enthusiasm
- Attrition
- A wearing down over time
- Inherent
- In the nature of something though not readily apparent
- Rabid
- Raging; Fanatical
- Commensurate
- Corresponding in size or degree or extent
- Noxious
- Harmful to the health
- Incisive
- suitable for cutting or piercing
- Genial
- Friendly
- Inert
- unable to move or resist motion
- Approbation
- Formal aprroval
- Gargantuan
- Of great mass
- Pristine
- Immaculately clean and unused
- Jocose
- characterized by jokes and good humor
- Connive
- To cooperate secretly in wrongdoing
- Purlion
- To steal
- Humility
- a disposition to be humble
- Expedient
- a means to an end