Week 7-9 Vocabulary (Prioa)
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- Gesticulate
- to make gestures while speaking
- hue
- gradation of color, shout of pursuit
- Impasse
- deadlock, standstill
- Ineluctable
- not to be avoided; inevitable
- Intransigent
- refusing to compromise, stubborn
- Ken
- range of perception or knowledge
- Lucid
- clear to the understanding, intelligible
- Malinger
- to evade work, to shirk
- Mnemonic
- assisting the memory
- Myriad
- countless, innumerable
- Narcissistic
- self-centered, egotistical
- Odious
- hateful, disgusting, offensive
- Palpitate
- beat rapidly, pound, flutter
- paraphrase
- restatement of a passage
- Pedantic
- stilted, affected
- Peroration
- conclusion of an oration, highly rhetorical speech
- Platonic
- idealistic, not sensual
- Pragmatic
- relating to what is practical
- Promiscuous
- casual, irregular, loose, wanton
- Recalcitrant
- unruly, uncooperative
- Restive
- uneasy, restless, fidgeting
- Sardonic
- bitter, mocking, sarcastic
- Sensuous
- pleasure through senses
- Sensual
- sexual pleasure
- Stolid
- dull
- sybarite
- lover of luxury, voluptuary
- tirade
- vituperative, intemperate speech
- vagary
- caprice, whim
- venal
- corrupt, mercenary
- vicarious
- indirect sympathy
- vitiate
- to make weak, spoil, ineffective
- abnegate
- surrender, renounce, deny
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend, recondite
- acrid
- sharp, bitter taste against senses
- affront
- to insult openly
- anachronism
- outdated, anomaly
- august
- awesome, marked by dignity
- chagrin
- shame, disappointment
- clandestine
- secrecy, surreptitious
- contumely
- haughty, scornful, disdain
- deprecate
- express disapproval
- desultory
- haphazard, lack of plan
- eclectic
- composed of elements of many sources
- egregious
- flagrant (bad)
- enamored
- inflamed with love
- eschew
- shun, avoid
- facile
- superficial, or easily done
- fickle
- unstable, changeableness
- generic
- general, char. of group
- harbinger
- forerunner, presager of what is to come
- hypochondriac
- imaginary illness
- impute
- ascribe, lay blame for
- ineptitude
- unfitness, clumsiness, incompetence
- intrepid
- brave, fearless
- juxtapose
- adjoin, place side by side
- labyrinth
- maze, complex
- machiavellian
- cunning, duplicity
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing, smooth
- ostentatious
- showy, pretentious
- cacophony
- dissonant, jangling
- nomad
- wanderer