Vocab Units 3,4,7,8
Micheal's vocab
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- LACONIC
- SPARING USE OF LANGUAGE
- LETHARGY
- SLOW
- OSTRACIZE
- TO BAN
- CORUSCATE
- SPARKLE
- PROTEAN
- CHANGEABLENESS
- CENOTAPH
- MONUMENT TO HONOR SOMEONE DEAD
- SPOONERISM
- TRANSPOSITIONS OF SOUNDS
- MONOLITHIC
- SOLID
- MORIBUND
- ABOUT TO DIE
- DROLL
- OFFBEAT
- DEPRECATE
- BELITTLE
- POGROM
- ORGANIZED MASSACRE
- CURSORY
- HASTY
- ASPERITY
- HARSHNESS
- PERNICIOUS
- TOXIC
- EMASCULATE
- TO WEAKEN
- VACILLATE
- INDECISION
- POIGNANT
- TOUCHING
- OBTUSE
- DULL, BLUNT
- CONVIVIAL
- AGREEABLE
- JABBERWOCK
- GIBBERISH
- CUPIDITY
- EAGER
- CONTUMACY
- STUBBORN RESISTANCE TO AUTHORITY
- NEMESIS
- AN OPPONENT OR RIVAL ONE CANNOT DEFEAT
- TYRO
- BEGINNER OR NOVICE
- POLTERGEIST
- A NOISY GHOST
- UTOPIA
- A PLACE OF PERFECTION
- BIFURCATE
- DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS
- BABBLE
- UNINTELLIGIBLE LANGUAGE, GIBBERISH
- SADISTIC
- DELIBERATELY CRUEL
- PEREMPTORY
- ABSOLUTE
- Somniloquy
- sleep talk
- BOYCOTT
- TO JOIN IN REFUSING TO DEAL WITH OR PATRONIZE A SELLER
- CROSS OR PASS THE RUBICON
- CAN'T GO BACK
- EXUDE
- OOZE
- HALCYON
- CALM, PEACEFUL, JOYOUS
- ATTRITION
- WEARING AWAY
- Pollyanna
- a foolishly optimistic person
- EXCULPATE
- CLEAR OF BLAME
- HALLOWEEN
- A HOLIDAY WITH CANDY
- SWORD OF DAMOCLES
- AN IMPENDING DISASTER
- LOTHARIO
- SEDUCER
- OBELISK
- FOUR SIDED TAPERED PILLAR
- PANACEA
- A CURE TO ALL ILLS
- SESQUIPEDALIAN
- LONG
- ANTEMERIDIAN
- BEFORE NOON, (A.M.)
- FLORA AND FAUNA
- VEGETATION
- DEBILITATE
- TO WEAKEN
- QUIXOTIC
- IMPRACTICALLY IDEALISTIC OR FOOLISHLY CHIVALROUS
- APOTHEOSIS
- DEITY, GLORIFICATION
- Philippic
- a verbal denunciaton
- GARGANTUAN
- OF GIANT SIZE OR DIMENSIONS
- CALLIOPE
- A KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT USING STEAM TO POWER WHISTLES THAT PLAY MUSIC NOTES
- MANIFEST
- UNDERSTOOD
- PERIPATETIC
- TO WALK ABOUT
- PLUTOCRACY
- GOVERNING BY THE RICH
- VITIATE
- CORRUPT
- STOICISM
- REPRESSING EMOTIONS
- PANDEMONIUM
- CHAOS
- DISSIPATE
- SCATTER, DISPERSE
- DOTAGE
- TO BE FOOLISH
- MILQUETOAST
- TIMID PERSON
- HARASS
- TO TORMENT
- Draconian
- harsh,severe
- TITAN
- A PERSON OR THING OF COLLOSAL DIMENSIONS, STRENGTH, OR INFLUENCE
- ATTENUATE
- MAKE SLENDER
- RUE
- REGRET
- BADINAGE
- TEASING
- ECUMENICAL
- UNIVERSAL
- TARANTELLA
- THE NAME OF A DANCE
- FACADE
- FAKE APPEARANCE
- MILLENNIUM
- 1,000 YEARS, A PERIOD OF GREAT HAPPINESS
- SERENDIPITY
- GOOD THINGS HAPPEN BY CHANCE
- ABERRANT
- IRREGULAR
- PENURY
- A DESIRE
- CATHARSIS
- A SPIRITUAL PURIFICATION
- Shylock
- moneylender at high interest rates
- HOBSON'S CHOICE
- THERE IS NO CHOICE
- MESMERIZE
- 1. TO HYPNOTIZE 2. TO FASCINATE
- INIMICAL
- HOSTILE
- BENEDICT
- A RECENTLY MARRIED MAN THOUGHT TO BE A CONFIRMED BACHELOR
- HUMOR
- MOOD, FRAME OF MIND
- PUSILLANIMOUS
- COWARDLY
- PANDORAS BOX
- THE SOURCE OF MANY UNSEEN ILLS
- CENOTAPH
- TOMB OR MONUMENT
- FORTNIGHT
- TWO WEEKS
- VICISSITUDE
- CHANGE IN ROUTINE
- ADAMANT
- INFLEXIBLE
- BROGUE
- GRIP, OR HOLD
- LIMBO
- AN INTERMEDIATE PLACE OR STATE
- COLOSSUS
- ANYTHING OF GIGANTIC SIZE OR POWER
- SOLECISM
- INCORRECT USE OF GRAMMAR
- MELEE
- BRAWL
- SISYPHEAN
- REQUIRING EFFOR THAT IS USELESS
- Ceasarean section
- a method of delivery where the stomach is cut open
- ODYSSEY
- ADVENTURES
- ENNUI
- DISPLEASURE
- EMULATE
- TRY TO EQUAL, IMITATE
- CARNAL
- FLESHY
- NARCISSISM
- SELF-LOVE
- TENEBROUS
- DARK, GLOOMY
- EXTIRPATE
- TO WIPE OUT
- MACHIAVELLIAN
- NOT MORAL
- JACQUARD
- HEAVY CLOTH
- GERRYMANDER
- RIGGING THE VOTING ZONES TO WIN AN ELECTION
- PROCRUSTEAN
- NO REGARD FO INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
- BACCHANALIA
- WILD CELEBRATION
- PASTICHE
- HODGEPODGE
- ARMAGEDDON
- A GREAT, DECISIVE BATTLE
- ALTRUISM
- UNSELFISH
- JUNOESQUE
- BEAUTY
- BABBITT
- NARROW MINDED, COMPLACENT
- BILLINGSGATE
- FOUL LANGUAGE
- MALAPROP
- MISUSE OF A WORD
- BRAGGADOCIO
- EMPTY BOASTING
- EPHEMERAL
- SHORT LIVED
- EXCORIATE
- TO ATTACK
- EUTHANASIA
- MERCY KILLING
- VICARIOUS
- EXPERIENCING THROUGH IMAGINATION
- HEINOUS
- HATEFUL
- FLATULENT
- GASSY
- PANGLOSSIAM
- NAIVE, BLINDLY OPTIMISTIC
- KALEIDOSCOPE
- A VARIATED COLOR PATTERN
- IDIOSYNCRACY
- ECCENTRICITY
- KAFKAESQUE
- SURREAL
- EXIGENCY
- AN EMERGENCY
- Lilliputian
- small, petty, or narrow
- SPURIOUS
- FAKE
- DEMAGOGUE
- A BAD LEADER
- EXPATIATE
- TO MOVE FREELY, SPEAK OR WRITE AT GREAT LENGTH
- CAVEAT
- WARNING OR CAUTION
- VENIAL
- PARDONABLE
- IMPLACABLE
- NOT TO BE CLAIMED, UNRELENTING
- INVETERATE
- HABITUAL
- PALLIATE
- TO COVER BY EXCUSES
- TORPOR
- NUMBNESS, APATHY
- MACHINATION
- SCHEME
- APOCALYPSE
- DISCOVERY, PROPHETIC REVELATION
- CHARLATAN
- A PRETENDER
- MAELSTROM
- UPROAR
- GAMBIT
- PLOY
- CHAGRIN
- DISTRESS OF MIND
- SPLENETIC
- IRRITABLE
- HADES
- HELL
- SWASTIKA
- SYMBOL OF TYRANNY
- STENTORIAN
- A PERSON WITH A DEEP, RESONATING VOICE
- PONTIFF
- SPIRITUAL LEADER
- QUINTESSENCE
- PUREST FORM
- HISTRIONIC
- ARTIFICIAL
- OBFUSCATE
- TO CONFUSE
- MACABRE
- GRUESOMENESS
- TREPIDATION
- ANXIETY
- LICENTIOUS
- UNRESTRAINED
- COZEN
- TO DECEIVE
- MYRMIDON
- FOLLOWING ORDERS WITHOUT QUESTION
- PARTHIAN SHUT
- TO MAKE A SHARP TELLING REMARK AS ONE IS LEAVING
- ANIMOSITY
- HATRED
- GORGON
- A REPULSIVE
- EPONYM
- THE PERSON FOR WHOM SOMETHING IS NAMED
- CAROUSE
- TO BE MERRY
- AUDACIOUS
- RECKLESS
- VESTIGE
- TRACE, REMNANT
- HOLOCAUST
- WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION ESPECIALLY BY FIRE
- IMPUGN
- TO FIGHT
- CLAIRVOYANT
- HAVING SECOND SIGHT
- GUILLOTINE
- A DEVICE USED TO BEHEAD PEOPLE
- CALDRON
- LARGE KETTLE
- EUPHORIA
- EXTREME HAPPINESS
- JANUS-FACED
- HYPOCRITICAL
- GROTESQUE
- BIZARRE
- Sybarite
- a person devoted to luxury
- SYCOPHANT
- FLATTERER
- MARTINET
- STRICT ORDERS
- SHANGRI-LA
- A PARADISE
- ARGONAUT
- ADVENTURER
- BOWDLERIZE
- TO EDIT
- APOCHRYPHA
- DOUBTFUL ACCURACY
- EUPHEMISM
- INOFFENSIVE SUBSTITUTION
- BYZANTINE
- HIGHLY COMPLICATED
- PYRRHIC VICTORY
- VICTORY AT A COST
- TAWDRY
- CHEAP, SHOWY, LACKING GOOD TASTE
- EXULT
- TO BE ELATED
- STYGIAN
- A SENSE OF GLOOM
- NEPOTISM
- FAVORING RELATIVES
- ANACHRONISM
- CHRONOLOGICALLY OUT OF PLACE
- MARATHON
- A LONG CONTEST WITH ENDURANCE
- PANDER
- TO SERVE
- TSUNAMI
- TIDAL WAVE
- CAPRICE
- A SUDDEN CHANGE OF MIND
- VIRULENT
- TOXIC
- ASSUAGE
- TO EASE PAIN
- SPECIOUS
- DECEPTIVELY ATTRACTIVE
- CATHOLIC
- UNIVERSAL
- NEXUS
- A CONNECTION
- BEDLAM
- PANDEMONIUM
- EXPURGATE
- TO REMOVE THAT WHICH IS HARMFUL
- NIRVANA
- EXTINGUISHING OF ALL FEELINGS
- FICKLE
- EASILY CHANGEABLE
- CASANDRA
- A PERSON WHO PROPHESISES DOOM OR DISASTER
- BANAL
- NO ORIGINALITY
- Epicure
- having a refined taste of the culinary arts
- FOIBLE
- A FAULT OR FLAW
- EPITAPH
- COMMEMERATION FOR A DEAD PERSON
- MAUDLIN
- OVERLY SENTIMENTAL
- JARGON
- GIBBERISH
- HERCULEAN
- SOMETHING THAT HAS A LOT OF STRENGTH, COURAGE, AND SIZE
- MNEMONICS
- ASSISTING THE MEMORY
- AUSTERE
- STERN, UNADORNED
- PAROCHIAL
- NARROW
- GALVANIZE
- TO STIMULATE
- NOSTRUM
- REMEDY
- CHARISMA
- CHARM
- ASININE
- SILLY, STUPID
- CHAVINISM
- UNDUE PARTIALITY TO ANY GROUP OR PLACE, TRAITOR
- UNCTUOUS
- OILY
- PHILISTINE
- IGNORANT
- OFFICIOUS
- MEDDLESOME
- ECDYSIAST
- STRIPTEASE
- QUISLING
- TRAITOR
- MERCURIAL
- SWIFT, CHANGEABLE
- RECONDITE
- OBSCURE
- TANTALIZE
- TO TORMENT
- TRAVAIL
- ANGUISH, SUFFERING
- ACCOLADE
- AWARD
- INDOMITABLE
- UNCONQUERABLE
- DECADENT
- DECAYED
- MYRIAD
- IN GREAT NUMBERS
- ROENTGEN
- THE UNIT OF MEASURE OF RADIATION
- SUB ROSA
- SECRETLY
- VANDAL
- MALICIOUS OR MISCHIEVIOUS DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
- ACRIMONY
- SOUR, BITTER
- PHARISEE
- SANCTIMONIOUS
- BELLWETHER
- LEADER
- FECKLESS
- INEFFECTIVE
- DIGRESS
- TO TURN ASIDE, DEVIATE FROM
- Rodomontade
- empty bragging-braggadocio
- VAGARY
- UNPREDICTABLE IDEA
- PENCHANT
- A PREFERENCE
- AEGIS
- PROTECTION
- TITILLATE
- TO TICKLE
- TRUCKLE
- TO SUBMIT
- ACHILLES HEEL
- A PART THAT IS VULNERABLE
- AKIMBO
- HANDS ON HIPS
- MORDANT
- CAUSTIC, SHARP, OR BITING
- SUPPLICATE
- TO BEG
- ANTHOLOGY
- COLLECTION OF LITERARY WORKS
- EXPLICATE
- TO EXPLAIN
- FULMINATE
- TO ERUPT AS IN ANGER
- EXURB
- SUBURBS