2semesterharpervocab8
Terms
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- voracious
- to consume a great amount of food
- enthrall
- captivated
- illusory
- having illusion, deceptive
- surreptitious
- done by stealthy means
- epitome
- a representative or an example of a class/ type, model
- hackneyed
- over familiar through overuse
- digress
- to turn aside from the main subject
- repudiate
- to reject validity or authority of
- philistine
- a smug middle class person who is indifferent to artistic and cultural values
- ambivalent
- uncertain or undecisive
- abstruse
- difficult to understand
- impregnable
- incapable of being pregnant, invinicible
- hyperbole
- a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
- patronize
- treating in an condescending manner
- dilettante
- a dabbler in an art or field of knowledge
- autocrat
- a person with unlimited amount of power
- vilify
- to make vicious and defamatory statements
- volatile
- tending to be explosive
- nuance
- a subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning
- accolades
- an expression of approval or praise