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Vocab Units 3,4,7,8

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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

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