Vocab II
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- antipathy
- A strond dislike or distaste, hatred Noun
- Standardize
- V. To make the same
- travesty
- A crude,exaggerated, or ridiculous repsentation, mockery Noun
- esoteric
- ADJ. Intended for or understood by only a certain grouop, beyond the understanding of most people
- Utilitarian
- ADJ. Made or intended for practical use
- deride
- To make fun of; ridicule
- cuimination
- the highest point or degree or a series of actions or events, the climax
- flout
- To treat with scorn or contempt; defy insultingly
- henious
- Extremely evil; outrageous
- Quandary
- A state of uncertainty or confusion about what to do; predicament
- implicit
- Suggested or understood, but not directly stated; implied
- Austere
- ADJ. Without decoration or luxury, simple
- Vehement
- Intense; forcefull
- emulate
- to try to squal or surpass, to imitate
- adroit
- Skillful and clever under challenging conditions
- repudiate
- to deny the truth, validity, or authority of
- abrasive
- harsh, able to cause a wearing away by rubbin or scraping, rough, irritating
- admonsihed
- to scold gently but seriously
- promiscuous
- Unselective, lacking standards of selection, especially in sexual relations
- tumult
- the noisy disorder of a crowd; a commotion
- docile
- obedient, willingly led
- auspicious
- Being a good sign, favorable; encouraging
- Presumptuous
- ADJ. Too bold, foward, overly confident
- contend
- To claim to be true
- Contrite
- ADJ. Sorry
- Lucid
- ADJ. Clearly expressed, easily understood
- extenuating
- Serving to make less erious or seem less serious through some excuse
- Germane
- ADJ. Having to do with the issue at hand
- forestall
- To prevent or hinder by taking action beforehand
- antithesis
- the exact opposite
- Encompass
- V. Include
- Rancor
- N. Intense hatred or ill will
- Foible
- N. A minor weekness or flaw
- Recrimination
- N. An accusation made inresponse to an accuser
- innocuous
- ADJ. Harmless, inoffensive
- Atrophy
- Verb. Waste away, wear down from disuse
- Omnipotents
- All-powerful; having unlimited authority
- Exhort
- V. To urge with argument or strong advice
- Diabolic
- Adj. Very cruel, wicked
- Integral
- ADJ. essential, necessary to the whole
- Magnanimous
- ADJ. Noble in mind and spirit, especially generous and forgiving
- Insinuate
- to suggest, to hint
- Commensurate
- ADJ. Corresponding in degree, number, inproportion
- Exacerbate
- V. to aggravate, amke more severe
- Connotation
- N. A secondary meaning suggested by the word
- Mitigate
- V. To make less severe or less intense
- espouse
- V. To support, argue for or adopt
- subordinate
- Under the authority or power of another; inferior or below another in rank, power, or importance
- rebuke
- To scold sharply; express blame or disapproval
- Placebo
- N. Fake medicine
- precarious
- Dangerous, risky, dangerously uncertain ADJ.
- Obsequious
- Overly willing to serve, obey, or flatter inorder to gain favor
- fastidious
- Extremely attentive to details; fussy
- Tenuous
- Adj. having little substance or basis, weak
- Deplore
- V. To feel or ecpress disapproval of
- insidioius
- Working or spreading harmfuly but in a manner hard to notice;more harmful than at first evident
- impeding
- about to happen; imminent
- Dissipate
- V. To thin out, drive away
- Vindicate
- V. to clear form blame or suspiction
- indolent
- ADJ. Lazy, avoiding or disliking work
- Disparity
- An inequality or differnce, as in age or amounts
- Unassuming
- ADJ. Modest, not boastful or arrogant
- Inherent
- ADj. Existing as a natural or essentail quality of a person or thing, built in
- Verbose
- ADJ. Using too many words
- Assimilate
- V to become more similar to a larger whole, blend into main culutre
- subversive
- ADJ. intended to overthrow
- staunch
- ADJ Firm, loyal, strong in support
- perfunctory
- ADJ. Done only as a rountine, with little care or interest, preformed with no interest or enthusiasm