English Vocabulary Chapter 11
Terms
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- abstemious
- moderate; sparing
- censurable
- deserving of blame or correction
- contingent
- likely but not certain to happen,possible.
- corroborate
- to confirm
- denizen
- an inhabitant, resident
- discursive
- passing aimlessly from one place to another
- disseminate
- to scatter or spread widely
- dowdy
- poorly dressed, shabby
- florid
- highly colored, reddish
- foist
- to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine
- gauche
- awkward,lacking in social graces, tactless
- heresay
- an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred
- inculcate
- to impress on the mind by repition, teach persistently and earnestly.
- palpable
- capable of being touched or felt
- perceptive
- having sympathetic insight or understanding
- pernicious
- extremely harmful; deadly, fatal
- salient
- leaping, jumping or springing forth, prominent
- sear
- to make or become dry, withered
- satite
- to satisfy completely
- specious
- deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit