Unit 6 Vocabulary
Terms
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- abortive
- (adj.) failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or imperfectly developed
- bruit
- (v.) to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors
- contumelious
- (adj.) insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliating
- dictum
- (n.) a short saying; an authoritative statement
- ensconce
- (v.) to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place
- iconoclastic
- (adj.) attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions
- in medias res
- (adv.) in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things
- internecine
- (adj.) mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed
- maladroit
- (adj.) lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception, or judgment
- maudlin
- (adj.) excessively or effusively sentimental
- modulate
- (v.) to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate adjust
- portentous
- (adj.) foreshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous
- prescience
- (n.) knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight
- quid pro quo
- (n.) something given in exchange or return for something else
- salubrious
- (adj.) conducive to health or well-being; wholesome
- saturnalian
- (adj.) characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness
- touchstone
- (n.) a means of testing worth or genuineness
- traumatic
- (adj.) so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage
- vitiate
- (v.) to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of
- waggish
- (adj.) fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll