Vocab for Novak
Terms
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- abjure
- to renounce
- equanimity
- stability, calmness
- estrange
- to alienate
- flay
- to whip
- florid
- rosy colored, reddish
- interminable
- tiresome and long
- lugubrious
- mornful, gloomy
- nondescript
- having no individuality
- propitious
- favorable, auspicious
- vernacular
- everyday language
- zealous
- ferevent, fanatical
- arable
- fit for cultivation
- brigand
- robber, bandit
- carte blance
- authority with no bounds
- consomme
- clear soup
- contemptuous
- scornful, haughty
- discerning
- distinguising differences, detecting
- incantation
- charm
- interlocutor
- questioner
- nomenclature
- naming system in an art/science
- seredipity
- a forunate disovery made my accident
- stentorian
- extremely loud
- vestige
- trace, evidence
- abstemious
- eating and drinking moderately
- archaic
- no longer current
- dulcet
- melodious
- expurgate
- remove objectionable words from
- idyllic
- carefree
- iniquity
- sin
- lithe
- supple, graceful
- patronizing
- condescending
- pellucid
- transparent, clear
- perspicacious
- keen, mentally sharp
- relegate
- assign
- usurp
- to take over
- vacillate
- waver, to sway indecisively
- acme
- highest point
- apocryphal
- of doubtful origin
- catharsis
- emotional experience
- desiccate
- to dry up completely
- dissipate
- to waste
- efficacious
- effective
- effable
- inexpressible
- intrinsic
- of o relating to basic nature
- inundate
- to cover with
- maxim
- fundamental principle
- revere
- to regard with respect
- servile
- submissive
- superfluous
- unecessary
- consternation
- dismay or worry
- conundrum
- puzzle
- emollient
- something softening
- expiate
- to atone, to make amends for
- extricate
- to release
- flippancy
- disrepect
- foist
- to pass of as worthy or real
- innocuous
- harmless
- inveterate
- habitual
- soluble
- easily dissolved
- vitriolic
- bitterly spiteful
- imbroglio
- difficult situation
- impetuous
- impulsive, rash
- malinger
- to pretend to be ill
- peregrination
- traveling on foot, walking
- platitude
- cliche
- sanctimonious
- false piety
- scullion
- kitchen servent
- sectarian
- narrowly confined to a particular group
- stringent
- strict
- trite
- cliched, lacking interest
- venerate
- respect, worship
- wrenching
- violent
- cerebral
- relating ot brain
- churlish
- boorish, vulgar
- cogent
- convincing
- convoluted
- difficult to discern
- entreat
- to ask or petition for, plead
- incumbent
- obligatory
- inimical
- adverse, hostile
- livid
- angry, furious
- lurid
- sensational, ghasty
- promulgate
- to announce
- spurious
- false, incorrect
- staid
- sedate, proper
- surfeit
- an excessive amount
- allay
- relieve
- asperity
- severity, harshness
- exegesis
- an analysis
- extradite
- to realse an accused criminal to another jurisdiction
- inveigh
- protest
- lionize
- to honor
- pander
- to act as a go between, exploit weakness of others
- profilgate
- wasteful, immoral
- recalcitrant
- stubbornly resistent
- renuncaition
- rejection, abandoment
- unimpeachable
- beyond doubt
- unwiedly
- not easily held
- vitiate
- reduce value of
- benign
- favorable
- blithe
- carefree
- bumpkin
- unsophisticated person
- corroborate
- to make more certain
- culpable
- blameable, responsible for
- goad
- to urge
- indecorous
- lacking good taste, improper
- indolent
- lazy
- pervasive
- permeating, present throughout
- provocative
- stimulating
- punitive
- punishing
- recrimination
- accusation made to counter another
- soporific
- something that induces sleep
- toady
- sycophant