Vocab A2 2
Terms
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- premonish (v)
- to give warning in advance, to forwarn
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insipid (adj)
insipidity (n) -
lacking taste or savor to please
2. lacking in qualites that stimulate, interest, or challenge - bellicose (adj) belicosity (n)
- favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars
- precarious(adj) precariously(adv) precariousness(n)
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1. depending on the will or pleasure of another. 2. dependent on uncertain premises.
3. dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments, characterized by lack of security or stability -
promulgate (v)
promulgation (n) -
to declare (as a doctrine) known by open declaration: proclaim
2. to make known or public as a law,
3. to put into action or force - effulgence(noun), effulgent(adj)
- radiant, splendor: brilliance, to shine forth
- eros (n)
- fundamental creative impulse or love havine a sensual element, erotic love or desire, instincts that are manifested to gratify basic needs as sublimated impulses, ex. sexual desire
- annex (v)
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at attatch as a quality, consequence, or condition.2
to join together materially: unite 3. to add to comething earlier, larger, or more importance, to incorporate a country within the domain of a state - evince (v) evincible(adj)
- to constitute outward evidence of 2. to display clearly: reveal
- paradox
- an apparent contradiction caused by words that in fact is no contradiction at all, a statement that appears contradictory or opposed to common sense by in fact could be true
- rancor
- bitter deep-seated ill will
- confluence (n)
- 1. a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point 2. the place of meeting or two streams formed by junction
- malignant (adj)
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evil in nature, disaffected
2. injurious, passionately and relentlessly malicious
3. tending to produce death or deterioration - repine (v) repiner(n)
- to feel or express dejection or discontent. 2. to long for something
- antinomy(noun), antinomic(adj)
- a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles. 2. a fundamental and apparently unresolvable conflict or contradiction