Vocab lists 9-15 for english final
Terms
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- Prodigious
- extraordinary in size; quantity or degree
- confiscate
- to legally take someones property
- junket
- a trip made by public officialsat public expense
- Simian
- resembling a monkey
- Nuance
- a subtle distingtion or variation
- entreat
- a plead in with order to persuade
- preclude
- to rule out in advance
- propensity
- an intense natural leaning toward something
- delectable
- highly pleasing, delicious
- pungent
- causing a sharp or irritaion sensationstrong stinging bitiong
- Pithy
- to the point concise
- usury
- the loaning of money at a rate above the legal limit
- wrest
- to pull free or to move by violent twisting
- Maxim
- a general truth stated in the form of a saying
- chagrin
- distress of the mind caused by humiliation dissapointment or failure
- bristle
- to arise and stand stiffly and erectly
- bullock
- a young bull; castrated bull
- modicum
- a very small amount
- assessor
- one who determines the material value of something
- brigand
- a robber
- hedonism
- the belief that pleasure or happiness is the good in life
- zenith
- the highes pint tht can be reached
- iota
- an very small amount
- sinous
- marked by a strong, smooth, intricite movement
- flaunt
- to display openely and proudly; too much pride
- austere
- stern and cold in appearence or manner giving little or no hoppe for pleasure
- dank
- unpleasantly moist or wet
- gadfly
- an unusually anoying person who provokes others
- rueful
- causing another to feel pity or sympathy
- truculent
- harsh belligerent destructive
- incorrigable
- not manageable
- stratagem
- a cleverly laid plan
- opaque
- of a dark nature; letting through no light
- vent
- to give release to negative feelings
- prevaricate
- to deviate from the truth
- bohemian
- living an unconventional life; relaxed and laid back
- debility
- weakness or feebleness of the body or mind
- paucity
- indicating a small number or amount of something
- soporific
- marked by sllepiness or lethergy
- unctious
- marked by a smug, ingratiating false earnestness or spirituality
- reparation
- compessation as for damage
- arcane
- know or knowable only to one having the key
- genre
- a category of artistic composition
- espouse
- to take up and support as a cause
- automaton
- something that automatically goes off on its own
- disconsolate
- so unhappy that nothing can bring comfort
- judiciously
- wisely; discreetly
- pith
- the core or essential part of something
- triennial
- occurring once every three years
- stolid
- having or expressing little or no emotion
- Duress
- a condition of supreme power
- essence
- the very nature of a thing something in its concentrated form
- wanton
- recklessly or arrogantly ignoring justice, decency or morality
- rotund
- plump chubby
- nymph
- one of the minor divinities of nature in ancient mythology
- ascetic
- characterized by self denial poverty by choice spiritual discipline
- pathos
- an emotion of sypathetic pity
- inanimate
- lacking conscienceness or power of motion on its own; not lively
- domicile
- a persons home
- triannual
- occurring 3 times a year
- gesticulation
- an expressive gesture used to show strong feeling
- congruous
- being in agreement or harmony
- weasel
- to escape or evade situatio or obligation
- coagulate
- to bcome viscous (thick) form into a soft mass
- risque
- very close to being improper or indecent or sugggestive
- conflagration
- large destructive fire
- conjecture
- conclusion arrived at by guesswork
- crypt
- a room wholly or partly underground
- undulation
- a rising and falling in waves; a wave appearence outline or form
- orb
- a spherical body basketball eye sun