Vocabulary part six
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- languor
- lack of energy, weakness, weariness; lack of interest or enthusiasm; indifference, quietness or stillness
- succor
- help, assistance, aid, comfort
- refine(d)
- to make pure; free from vulgarity; culttivated, well-bred
- sagacity
- keen, sound judgement; mental shrewdness; cleverness
- audacity
- reckless or rude boldness
- dissimulate
- to conceal, deceive, lie; to disguise or hide
- vehement
- having or showing or caused by stong feeling; violent, forceful
- definitive
- clear; authority that decides or settles a question conclusive
- dismember
- separate or divvide into parts; cut or tear the limbs from
- disarm
- to take weapons away from; to remove anger or suspicioun from; make harmless
- disparage
- to lower the reputation of; discredit; to speak slightingly of; belittle
- placate
- to soothe or satisfy the anger of; appease; mollify; assuage
- implacable
- unable to be appeased; refusing to be reconciled; unyielding
- disdain
- to think unworthy of notice; to look upon or treat as inferior
- inscrutable
- incapable of being understood; not easily known
- emissary
- messenger
- banal
- not new or interesting; commonplace; trite
- celerity
- swiftness, speed,rapidity
- egregious
- remarkaly, extraordinarily BAD
- cordiality
- friendliness
- largess
- generous giving; generous gift
- buffoonery
- clowing; roughhousing
- prevaricate
- to turn aside from the truth in speech or action; lie
- quixotic
- extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary; not practical; resemblin Don Quixote
- stoic
- a person who remains calm and self-conterolled or appears indifferent to pleasure/pain; member of a philosophy that believes virtue is the highest good—one should be free from passion, unmoved by life's happenings
- enmity
- feeling of hatred or hostility
- beleaguer
- to surround with troops, to assail or attack, besiege
- seditious
- that which stirs up rebellion
- domain
- territory under control of one ruler or government; land owned by one perosn; field of thought, action (domain of science, religion, etc.)
- voluble
- tending to talk much; fond of talking
- stolid
- difficult to rouse to action; showing no emotion; seeming dull, impassive
- penitent
- sorry, remorseful; a person who regrets wrong doing
- envelop
- to wrap or vocer, enfold, hide, conceal
- laborious
- requiring much labor; toilsome
- cuckold
- the humiliated husband of a unfaithful wife
- bravado
- false bravery; bluster behavior; pretended courage
- vestments
- clothing or robes
- defer
- postpone, put off until later
- niggardly
- stingy, miserly, tight with money
- choleric
- angry; irritable
- strumpet
- loose woman
- licentious
- morally unrestrianed; characterized by lust
- exploits
- adventures
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mendacious
(acity) - given to telling lies; lying; untruthful—a lie; falsehood
- laconic
- using few words, brief in speech; concise, terse