Words from B book
Terms
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- welter
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1. bewidering jumble.
The existing welter of federal and state proclaims cries out for reform.
2. wallow.
Victims weltered in blood while waiting for med attn. - voluble
- fluent, glib, talkative
- vituperative
-
abusive, scolding.
He became more vituperative when he realized that they were not going to grant him his wish - vaunted
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boasted, bragged, highly publicized.
This much vaunted project proved a dissappointment when it collapsed. - usury
- lending money at illegal rates of interest
- untoward
-
unfortunate, unlucky, adverse
Huck had a most untoward encounter with Ms. W, who thwarted his escape. - undulating
- moving in a wavelike motion. The hula fest featured an undulating sea of grass skirts.
- unctuous
-
oily, bland, insincerely suave.
Uri disguised his nefarious actions by unctuous protestations of his humilililty. - unction
- act of annointing with oil
- umbrage
-
resentment, anger, sense of injury or insult.
She took umbrage at his remarks and stormed away in a huff - turpitude
-
depravity.
A visitor may be denied admittance to this country if he has been guilty of moral turpitude. - turbid
- muddy, having sediment disturbed
- tumid
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swollen, pompous, bombastic
I dislike his tumid style; I prefer writing that is less swolen and bombastic. - truculence
- agressiveness, ferocity
- traduce
- expose to slander. His opponents tried to traduce the candidate's reputation by spreading rumors about his past.
- tractable
-
docile; easily managed.
Although Susan seemed a tractable young woman, she had a stubborn streak of independence that occasionally led her to defy those in charge. - tendentious
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biased.
The editorials are tendentious rather than truth seeking - tautological
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needlessly repetitious, redundant.
In the sentance it was visible to the eye, the phrase to the eye is tautological. - suppliant
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entreating; beeseching.
Unable to resist the dog's suppliant whimpering, he gave it some food. - succor
-
aid, assist comfort
I will come to succor you in your hour of need. - stygian
- gloomy, hellish, deathly
- stultify
-
to cause to appear or become stupid or inconsistent; frustrate or hinder.
His long hours in the blacking factory left Dickens numb and incurious, as if the menial labor had stultified his mind. - stanch
-
check flow of blood
It is imperative that we stanch the gushing wound before we attend to the other injuries - specious
- seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading.
- sophistry
- seemingly plausibly but fallacious reasoning
- solicitious
-
worried, concerned.
The employer was very solicitious about the health of her employees as replacents were difficult to get. - sinecure
- well paid position with little responsibility
- simper
- smirk, smile affectedly
- sidereal
- relating to the stars
- sententious
- terse, concise, aphoristic
- seine
- net for catching fish
- saturnine
- gloomy
- sanctimonious
- displaying ostentacious or hypocritical devoutness.
- salutary
- tending to improve, beneficial, wholesome
- salubrious
- healthful
- runic
- mysterious; set down in an ancient alphabet
- rescind
- cancel
- reporach
- express dissaproval or dissapointment
- reprobate
- person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency
- repudiate
- disown, disavow
- recumbent
- reclining; lying down completely or in part
- propitiate
-
appease
The natives offered sacrifices to propitiate the gods - prevaricate
- lie
- prognosticate
- predict
- parry
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to ward off a blow, deflect.
It was fun to watch KH &ST parry each other's verbas jabs in the classic screwball comedides. - ostentacious
- showy, pretentious, trying to attract attention
- obsequious
- slavishly attentive, servile, syncophatic
- obstreperous
- boisterous, noisy
- inveigh
- denounce, utter censure or invective
- fulsome
- disgustingly excessive
- fulminate
- thunder, explode
- extant
- still in existence.
- expiate
-
make amends for (a sin).
He tried to expiate his crimes by a full confession to authorities. - expatiate
- talk at length
- divest
-
to strip, to deprive
He was divested of his power and could no longer govern - dissolution
- looseness in morals; disintegration
- dissemble
-
disguise, pretend
Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking modern dance, we all knew he was there not to dance but to meet girls. - dispatch
- speediness; prompt execution
- deride
- ridicule; make fun of
- denigrate
- blacken
- diffuse
- wordy, rambling, or spread out
- desultory
- aimless, haphazard, digressing at random
- deference
- courteous regard for another's wish
-
deference
vs
diffidence -
courteous regard for another's wish
vs
shyness - cordon
- extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress
- contrite
- penitent
-
contention
vs
contentious -
contention=thesis
contentious=quarrelsome - cogent
- convincing
-
complaisant
vs
compliant -
complaisant=trying to please
vs.
compliant=yielding, conforming to requiremnts. - castigation
- punishment or severe criticism
-
capacious
vs.
capricious -
capacious=spacious
vs
capricious=on a whim - calumny
- malicious misrepresntation; slander
- belie
-
contradict, give flase impression
His coarse exterior belied his innate sensitivity - aver
- state confidently
- assuage
- to satisfy hunger, ease pain, or soothe anger.
-
antipathy
vs
apathy -
antipathy=aversion, dislike
vs
apathy=don't care - acclivity
- sharp upslope of a hill
- abnegation
- renunciation, self sacrifice
- abeyance
-
suspended action
The deal was held in abeyance until her arrival - abash
- embarrass
- abase
- lower, degrade, humiliate