Ap English vocab 9
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- listless
- lazy; slow moving; sluggish
- glutton
- someone who overindulges in food or other pleasureable activities
- brigand
- a robber, usualy a member of a band; a bandit
- Magnate
- a tycoon; an influentic, wealthy powerful buisness leader
- braggart
- someone who brags
- cynic
- a person having no faith in human nature; a pessimist
- chauvinist
- anyone who adheres fanatically to a cause or belief
- harangue
- to rant and rave, a diatribe
- hypocrite
- a person whose actions belie his words; a phony
- skinflint
- an overly thrifty person; a scrooge; a tightwad
- martinet
- a strict disiplinarian
- demagogue
- a leader who, by personal magnetism, fancy oration, and unsound arguments, attracks many followers esp; indubious causes
- phelgmatic
- lazy, slow-moving; sluggish
- malinger
- to good of instead of working; to avoid work
- debunk
- to disprove a myth
- miser
- an overly thrifty person; a scrooge; a tightwad
- lethargic
- lazy; slow-moving; sluggish
- hedonist
- a person devoted to earthly sensuous pleasures
- egotist
- a concieted person
- diatribe
- a loud, lengthy, abusive, bitter, sarcastic speech
- indolent
- lazy, slow moving; sluggish
- laggard
- an idler; a loiterer; a slowpoke; a dawdler
- loiter
- to spend time in idleness; to hang out
- iconoclast
- one who attacks or defies commonly held beliefs, a rebel or a hetic
- tirade
- a loud, lenthy, abusive, bitter, sarcastic speech