Engish 3
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- inimical
- injurious, harmful, hostile
- pule
- whine, whimper
- tureen
- broad, deep, usually covered dish
- damask
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1. rich, patterned fabric
2. Damascus steel - negus
- beverage of wine, hot water, lemon juice, sugar, and nutmeg
- deleterious
- having a harmful effect
- sumptuous
- of a size or splendor suggesting great expense; lavish
- billingsgate
- foul language
- salad days
- time of youthful inexperience, innocense, or indiscretion
- gravid
- heavy with young or eggs; pregnant
- sobriquet
- nickname; epithet
- littoral
- of a coastal or shore region
- venal
- capable of being bought or corrupted
- plaudit
- applause; enthusiastic approval
- apotheosis
-
1. elevation to divine rank
2. paragon - missive
- letter
- anathema
-
ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication;
vehement denunciation - onerous
- burdensome
- moreen
- sturdy ribbed fabric of wool and/or cotton
- hostler
- one who is employed to tend horses
- immanent
-
1. existing or remaining within; inherent
2. strictly of the mind - purloin
- steal, often in a violation of trust
- pall
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1. cover for a coffin
2. become boring or insipid - crape
- black band worn as a sign of mourning
- tiffin
- midday meal
- canton
- quarter soldiers
- puisne
- lower in rank
- genuflect
- bend the knee, as in worship
- histrionic
- theatrical
- quisling
- someone who collaborates with those occupying his country; traitor
- mountebank
- quack; charlatan; pretender
- imbroglio
- complicated and embarassing state of things
- scuttlebutt
-
1. drinking fountain on a ship
2. gossip - bon ton
- fashionable or elegant manner
- nescience
- ignorance
- octoroon
- person whose ancestry is one eighth black
- viviparous
- giving birth to living offspring that develop in the mother's body
- aseptic
- free of pathogenic microorganisms
- inculcate
- to impress by frequent instruction or repetition
- simian
- resembling an ape or monkey
- pullulate
-
1. put forth sprouts or buds
2. breed rapidly or abundantly - plangent
-
1. loud and resounding
2. expressing sadness - galvanic
- relating to direct-current electricity, especially when produced chemically
- plexus
- network
- solecism
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1. nonstandard usage or violation
2. impropriety, mistake, or incongruity - limn
- depict or describe
- germane
- relevant, appropriate
- eschew
- shun; avoid
- ochre
- mineral oxides of iron containing red, orange, or yellow and used as pigments
- squaw
- Native America woman, especially a wife
- tonsure
- shaving the head or part of the head
- rictus
- expanse of an open mouth
- concatenation
- series of events
- inveigh
- (with "against"): protest strongly or vituperate
- avuncular
- resembling an uncle, especially in kindness
- peremptory
- precluding all debate or action
- anodyne
- something that relieves stress or pain
- rill
- small rivulet or brook
- sacristan
- official charged with the sacred vessels and vestments of the church; sexon
- prognathous
- having protruding jaws
- culvert
- drain or channel passing under a sidewalk, road; sewer
- tussock
- tuft of grass
- adumbrate
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1. vaguely portray, foreshadow
2. obscure - robustious
- boisterous, vigorous, rough, crude
- habitue
- one who habitually frequents a place
- sui generis
- unique
- confute
- refute conclusively
- insouciant
- marked by lighthearted unconcern; carefree; nonchalant
- surcease
- cessation
- verisimilitude
- seeming to be true
- pervicacious
- stubborn
- small beer
- unimportant; trival
- vade mecum
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1. reference book
2. something one regularly carries around - suasion
- act of persuasion