English Final Exam Review
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- abhor
- to shrink from in disgust; bathe
- agile
- able to move quickly/easily
- augmenting
- to increase
- contempt
- despising
- dissemble
- to disguise; to hide one's true feelings
- eloquence
- speech/writing that's vivid, fluid, graceful and persuasive
- exalted
- to raise in rank, power, or character; to praise highly
- Exorbitant
- much to high; excessive
- fickle
- inconsistant
- futile
- having no useful result; w/o effect
- glowering
- to stare angrily
- imminent
- about to occur
- indolently
- lazily
- insiduous
- awaiting a chance to trap; characterized by treachery/evil
- loathsome
- very unpleasant; disgusting
- maudlin
- tearfully gentle; kind from too much liquor
- oppression
- cruel/unjust use of authority/power
- palpable
- capable of being touched; tangible
- pensive
- lost in sober/sad thought
- pernicious
- deadly, harmful
- precariously
- insecurely; in a dangerous way
- procure
- to get something
- prodigious
- exciting amazement/wonder; huge, enormous
- profoundly
- showing great knowledge or understanding; very deeply felt
- scourge
- cause of great suffering;destruction - whip/punishment
- tedious
- repetitive from boringness
- transgressionn
- violation
- unwieldy
- difficult to manage or handle from size/weight
- vortex
- a mass of whirling fluid; whirlpool
- anguish
- great physical/mental suffering; agony