Mckean English Vocabs!
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- To decline, decay or deterioration;
- Decadence
- To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision;
- Expostulate
- A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose;
- Coalition
- The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise;
- approbation
- To draw forth, bring out from some source;
- Elicit
- To make easier or milder, to relieve;
- Assuage
- Used so often as to lack freshness or originality;
- hackneyed
- A gap, opening, break;
- haitus
- A hint, indirect suggestion;
- Innuendo
- To plead on behalf of someone else;
- Intercede
- Wearied, worn-out, dulled
- Jaded
- Causing shock, horror, or revulsion;
- Lurid
- Worthy, deserving recognition and praise;
- Meritorious
- Peavish, annoyed by triffles, easily irritated and upset;
- petulant
- A special right or privilage;
- prerogative
- Excessively smooth or smug;
- Unctuous
- To make a pretense of, imitate;
- simulate
- To rise above or beyond, exceed
- Transcend
- Shade cast by trees;
- umbrage
- Pertaining to an outlying area;
- Provincial
- To improve, make better;
- ameliorate
- Poise, assurance, great self-confidence;
- Aplomb
- Pompous or overblown in language;
- bombastic
- Without experience; immature, not fully developed;
- callow
- Saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose;
- drivel
- A summary, condensed account
- epitome
- To urge strongly, advise earnestly
- exhort
- By virtue of holding a certain office
- ex officio
- To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds;
- infringe
- To make oneself agreeble and thus grain favor or acceptance by others.
- ingratiate
- One who moves in where he or she is not wanted, an intruder;
- interloper
- Belonging to someone or something by its very nature;
- intrinsic
- To make a violent attack in words;
- inveigh
- Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy
- lassitude
- A period of one thousand years;
- millenium
- Mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view;
- occult
- to spread through, pernetrate;
- permeate
- To fall as moisture, to cause or bring about suddenly;
- precipitate
- Strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding or compelling;
- stringent
- To think or believe without certain supporting evidence;
- surmise
- To have an intense dislike or hatred for;
- abominate
- The modification of the social patterns, traits'
- acculturation
- Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or characters;
- Adventitous
- To assign or refer to;
- ascribe
- Roundabout, not direct
- ciruitous
- To sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for;
- comiserate
- To direct or order, to prescribe a course of action in an authoriative way;
- enjoin
- To make easy, cause to progress faster
- expedite
- To make amends, make up for;
- expiate
- A state of great exitement
- ferment
- Resulting from or marked by lack of attention;
- inadvertent
- Existing in name only, not real'
- nominal
- Not decisive or definate, unwilling to take a clear position or to say yes or no
- noncommital
- To steal something that has been given into one's trust
- peculate
- A natural or habitual inclination or tendency
- proclivity
- Composure or cooless, especially in trying circumstances;
- sanfroid
- Resistant of lawful authority;
- seditious
- Thin, slender, not dense;
- tenuous
- BItter, sarcastic;
- vitriolic
- To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end
- wheedle
- Courteous and pleasant, socciable, easy to speak to;
- affable
- To increase in greatness, power, or wealth;
- aggrandize
- Shapeless, without definate form;
- amorphous
- That which surrounds, atmosphere;
- aura
- illegal traffic, smuggled goods;
- contraband
- Scholarly, learned, bookish;
- erudite
- Thin, light, delicate, insubstantial;
- gossamer
- To find out by reasoning;
- infer
- Incapable of being understood
- inscrutable
- Relating to, characteristics of, or situated on an island;
- insular
- Incapable of being changed or called back
- irrevocable
- A natural inclination or predilection toward;
- propensity
- Peavish, complaining, fretful;
- querulous
- To urgue or plead with someone agaist something;
- remonstrate
- To disown, reject, or deny the validity of;
- repudiate
- Able to return to an original shape or form;
- resilient
- To re-echo, resound,;
- reverberate
- Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low;
- scurrilous
- Persistent, showing industry and determination
- sedulous
- Thin or flimsy in texture, cheap;
- sleazy
- A general pardon for an offense agaist goverment
- Amnesty
- Self-goverment;;
- autonomy
- Self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
- axiomatic
- To adorn or embellish, to display;
- blazon
- A warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
- caveat
- Fair, just, embodying principles of justice
- equitable
- To free from entanglements or difficulties;
- extricate
- To steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts;
- filch
- To mock, treat with contempt;
- flout
- Tending to be troublesome
- fractious
- A rule of conduct or action
- precept
- Benificial, helpful;
- salutary
- Bitterly servere, withering;
- scathing
- To whip, punish serverly
- scourge
- Funeral, typical of the tomb;
- sepulchral
- Tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethagy;
- soporific
- Extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct;
- straitlaced
- Lasting only a short time, fleeting;
- transient
- Not easily carried, handled, or managed because of sized or complexity
- unwieldy
- Dull, uninteresting, tiresome;
- vapid
- Abnormal, irregular, departing fromt he usual
- anamalous
- A damaging or derogatory statement;
- aspersion
- Extremely strange, weird;
- bizzare
- Abrupt, blunt, wiht no formalities
- brusque
- To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice;
- cajole
- To punish severely; to criticize serverly
- casitage
- to plan wiht ingenuity, invent;
- contrive
- a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims;
- demagogue
- To free from deception or error,
- disabuse
- Weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest;
- ennui
- A chain or shackle placed on the feet
- fetter
- very wicked, offensive, hateful
- heinous
- Not subject to change, constant
- immutable
- One who rebels or rises agaist authority;
- insurgent
- A delusion marked by a felling of power, wealth, talent;
- megalomania
- a position requiring little or no work;
- sinecure
- Stealth, secret, intended to escape observation;
- surreptitious
- To go beyong a limit or boundary;
- transgress
- To change from one nature, substance;
- transmute
- Performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place or another;
- vicarious