Vocab - Group 1, 2, 3 and 4
Terms
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- zany
- having characteristics of a clown; crazy; mildly insane
- ameliorate
- become better improve
- peruse
- read; study
- parsimony
- stinginess
- parsimonious
- stingy
- effrontery
- shameless boldness; temerity
- exaggerate
- overstate, go beyond actual truth
- cinema
- movies, motion pictures industry
- inane
- lacking significance; silly
- supersede
- force out of use; displace
- perusal
- reading, study
- rejuvenate
- make young or youthful again
- unwieldy
- hard to handle because of size or weight
- consign
- give, transfer, hand over commit
- ignore
- refuse to take notice of, disregard
- detriment
- injury damage or something that causes disadvantage
- unwittingly
- by accident; inadvertently
- retire
- withdraw from active duty or business; go to bed
- surveillance
- close watch over a person; supervision
- retort
- answer, reply sharply or angrily
- reticent
- inclined to be silent, secretive, uncommunicative
- wager
- risk on an outcome; bet ; gamble
- withdraw
- take back; remove
- inanity
- foolishness
- formerly
- in an earlier period, previously
- baffle
- bewilder, perplex, puzzle, frustrate
- probe
- investigation
- ebullient
- overflowing with enthusiasm
- forbearance
- refraining; paitence
- finicky
- excessively concerned with trifles or details
- wane
- decrease in power or size; dwindle
- spurn
- thrust aside reject
- complex
- hard to understnad; complicated
- oblivious
- forgetful; unmindful; not aware
- occidental
- western
- excruciating
- unbearable pain
- scuffle
- brawl; fight
- exaggeration
- overstatement
- baffling
- frustrating bewildering
- replenish
- bring to condition of being full
- salutary
- favorable to health
- inanity
- foolishness, shallowness
- tepid
- moderate; lukewarm
- exotic
- from another country, foreign
- unruffled
- not upset or agitated; calm; cool
- scuffle
- struggle at close quarters in a rough and confused manner
- expertise
- specialized skill or know-how expertness
- invalidate
- abolish
- scrutinize
- examine very closely
- admonish
- caution; warn of a fault
- sweltering
- oppresively hot
- invalid (n.)
- sickly or disabled person
- conserve
- keep from waste
- subversion
- sabatoge, undermining
- lapse
- slip, error, mistake
- ebullience
- intense enthusiasm
- noncarcinogenic
- not producing cancer
- prodigious
- extraordinary in amount or size
- decade
- period of ten years
- score
- group or set of twenty
- snub
- insult; act of snubbing
- gall (n)
- brazen boldness; nerve
- indolent
- lazy, idle
- despise
- look down on with disgust, loathe
- folly
- foolish, lacking good sense
- detonate
- explode with suddeness
- tractable
- easily led taught or controlled
- tepidly
- unenthusiasticaly, lukewarmly
- exhort
- arouse by words, urge
- gall (v)
- make sore; irritate mentally, annoy
- subvert
- overthrow from the foundation, undermine
- raze
- to destroy utterly, demolish
- render
- deliver, give
- residue
- whatever is left after a part is taken
- acquit
- pronounce not guilty
- invalid (adj)
- not valid, having no force or effect
- suture
- used to sew the body
- stipend
- fixed pay for services; salary
- indemnify
- compensate for loss damage or injury
- harmony
- peaceable or friendly relations
- confine
- shut up; imprison
- ambrosial
- extremely pleasing to the taste or smell
- gullible
- easily decieved or cheated
- exhortation
- urgent recommendation or advice
- cinematography
- art of making motion pictures
- hamper
- interfere with
- nettlesome
- full of nettles; irritating
- haggle
- to bargain oevr a price
- reticence
- restraint in communicating
- Occident
- west, countries of americas and europe
- impediment
- something that hinders or obstructs
- ephemeral
- short lived
- despicable
- worthy of contempt
- repast
- food for one occasion of eating; meal
- intact
- left complete or entire, uninjured
- abhorent
- utterly opposed; loathsome
- immerse
- to plunge into
- insomnia
- inability to sleep