English Vocab PT2
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- disparage
- to belittle (condecending
- mendacious
- lying, untruthful
- DUBious
- full of doubt; uncertain
- Auspicious
- favorable; promising
- InCANTAtion
- a chant, the repetition of statements or phrases
- Assiduous
- Hard-working; busy
- Sagacious
- Wise
- Putative
- commonly accepted; supposed as truth
- obfuscate
- to darken; to confuse or make difficult to understand
- desultory
- without a plan or purpose; disconnected; random
- opaque
- impossible to see through; impossible to understand
- UNCTuous
- oily, literally and figuratively
- inexorable
- relentless; unavoidable
- esoteric
- hard to understand; understood by only a select few
- tenuous
- flimsy; extremely thin
- polemic
- a powerful argument, oftern made to attack a controversial issue
- obdurate
- stubborn and insensitive
- discreet
- modest
- ardent
- passionate, enthusiastic
- hermetic
- impervious to external influences
- acquiesce
- to accept, to comply passively
- extol
- to priase highly
- ineffABLE
- incapABLE of being expressed or described
- rudimentary
- basic, crude, unformed
- obtuse
-
lacking quickness of perception or intellect.charactized by a lack of INTELLIGENCE or sensitivity
- reiterate
- to say again or repeat
- circumlocution
- An indirect expression
- proletariat
- the industrial working class
- distend
- to swell, to expand a great deal
- perquisite
- a priviledge that goes along with a job; a perk
- percipitous
- steep
- furtive
- secretive; shy
- consummate
- perfect, complete, supremely skillful
- recalcitrant
- stubbonrly defient of authority, disobedient