PLAR Vocab
Terms
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- capable of holding a large quantity
- capacious
- food miraculously provided for the Israelites; spiritual nourishment of divine origin; something of value that a person gets inexpectantly
- manna
- to attack as questionable; challenge argument
- impugn
- coming or going out of
- egress
- perceptible by sense of touch
- tactile
- marked by blitheness; nonchalant; lacking of concern
- insouciant
- a succinct formulation of a principle, general truth, or rule of conduct
- maxim
- marked by disposition to find and point out trivial faults; intended to entrap or confuse
- captious
- an initial attempt
- essay
- forceful, effective, and vigorous; caustic; cutting
- trenchant
- jesting; merriment
- jocularity
- the coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings; uncertain of which course to follow
- ambivalence
- one who has abandoned one's religious faith, political party, or one's cause
- apostate
- to form, arrange
- stratify
- lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull
- vapid
- pleasantly pungent or tart in taste; appealing provocative; interesting
- piquancy
- to cause to move in a smooth wavelike motion
- undulate
- sea water with high salt concentration
- brine
- disgusting, loathsome
- abhorrent
- projecting beyond a line or surface; protruding; strikingly conspicuous; prominent
- salient
- to satisfy; quench
- slake
- to prove false or erroneous; overthrow by argument or proof
- refute
- act of enjoining; a command, directive, or order
- injunction
- the food of Greek gods; something delicious
- ambrosia
- attended by favorable conditions; propitious
- auspicious
- a particular manner of speaking; idiom; speech
- parlance