Vocabulary List #3 2
Terms
undefined, object
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- alacrity
- quick willingness
- aspirant
- candidate for a better job
- belligerent
- seeking war, hostile
- belittle
- speak of as unimportant
- brash
- rude or disrepectful
- castigate
- punish, chastise
- disdain
- scorn
- dregs
- most worthless part
- feint
- pretense, sham
- frenzy
- frantic outburst
- intimidate
- to make afraid
- laceration
- rough cut
- octogenarian
- man of eighty
- promulgate
- make public, proclaim
- pugnacious
- combative
- scoff
- to mock
- scurrilous
- vulgar, using indecent language
- solace
- comfort
- sordid
- filthy, ignorable
- tangible
- able to be touched
- to throw down the gauntlet
- to offer a challenge
- feeling no pain
- under the influence of alcohol
- Hobson's choice
- to have no say in a matter
- to rule the roost
- be the boss, law down the laws