Vocabulary #2
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- tirade
- A prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation
- ignominy
- Disgraceful dishonor; public contempt
- acumen
- Keen insight, shrewdness
- complacent
- Having a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfied or smugly satisfied with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- degradation
- The state of being lowered in dignity or estimation
- indolence
- Laziness
- plethora
- Overabundance; excess
- corrupt
- Characterized by improper conduct
- laud
- To praise, extol
- convoluted
- Complicated; twisted
- susceptible
- Capable of being affected; impressionable
- deluded
- Beguiled, duped, cheated, defrauded
- ephemeral
- Short-lived; transitory
- dearth
- An inadequate supply; scarcity; lack
- ensure
- To make secure or safe, as from harm.
- anarchist
- A person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.
- altruistic
- Unselfishly concerned with or devoted to the welfare of others.
- invective
- Vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach (a synonym for tirade)
- instigate
- To incite, provoke, or encourage to some form of action.
- vituperative
- Verbally abusive or condemning (the adjective version of tirade and invective)