Lessons 13 and 14
Terms
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- circumvent
- to get around; to bypass
- jocose
- joking; humorous
- fickle
- likely to change on awhim or without apparent reason
- frugal
- thrifty; economical in money matters
- marital
- having to do with marriage
- bask
- to expose oneself to pleasant warmth
- barrister
- lawyer
- enraptured
- delighted beyond measure
- charlatan
- one who pretend to have knowledge in order to swindle others
- myriad
- n. a very large number; adj. too numerous to be counted
- deprecate
- to express strong disapproval of
- obstreperous
- aggressively boisterous; stubborn and defiant
- pernicious
- destructive; deadly
- clandestine
- secret
- juggernaut
- a terrible destructive or irresistible force
- latent
- present, but not active; hidden
- adulation
- excessive praise or admiration
- hoax
- a practical joke; a trick
- levity
- lightness of dispositionl lack of seriousness
- bawdy
- indecent; humorously obscene
- mundane
- commonlplace; earthly and not spiritual
- chastise
- to punish severely
- novice
- a beginner; one who is inexperiences
- inert
- unable to act or movel inactive; sluggish
- naive
- simple in outlook; not affected or worldly; especially innocent
- genial
- friendly; amiable
- culinary
- having to do with the kitchen or cooking
- amicable
- friendlyl peaceable
- acquit
- to find not guilty of a fault or crime
- nocturnal
- having to do with the night; occuring at night