English Vocab - List 3
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- autonomous
- self-governing; independent
- blanch
- grow or become white or pale
- candor
- sharp honesty in expressing oneself
- crass
- very stupid; unrefined; dull; slow to understand
- cursory
- a hasty consideration of something without pausing to note details
- deft
- skillful in a quick and easy way (suggests nimbleness and sureness to touch)
- demeanor
- behavior in expressing one's attitude, etc.
- eminent
- famous; well-known (suggests conspicuous superiority)
- enhance
- increase in value; make better or more beautiful
- ennui
- boredom; weariness; dissastisfaction (resulting from inactivity or loss of interest)
- exorbitant
- too expensive; going beyond limits
- fetid
- offenstive to sense of smell; stinking
- fortuitous
- accidental; happening by chance
- furtive
- sly; stealthy; secret (suggests a reprehensible objective)
- futile
- useless; ineffectual; unimportant
- jihad
- a war by Muslims against unbelievers or enemies of Islam; a fanatical campaign for or against something
- Armageddon
- Biblical - the place where the last, decisive battel between godo and evil will be fought; any great, decisive battle
- debacle
- an overwhelming defeat or rout; a total, often ludicrous, failure, or collapse
- aggregate
- adj. - gathered together into a mass of a whole; noun - a group of distinct things gathered together
- effusive
- expressing excessive emotion; too demonstrative