Sadlier-Oxford Vocab F-9
Terms
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- torpid
- inactive, sluggish
- evanescent
- vanishing, soon passing away
- egregious
- conspicuous, standing out from the mass
- slovenly
- untidy, dirty, careless
- adulation
- praise or flattery
- penury
- extreme poverty
- anathema
- an object of intense dislike
- resuscitate
- to revive, bring back to consciousness or existance
- abate
- to make less in amount
- irresolute
- unable to make up one's mind
- pretentious
- done for show, striving to make a big impression
- avarice
- a greedy desire, particularly for wealth
- recapulate
- to review a series of facts, to sum up
- dilatory
- tending to delay or procrastinate
- novice
- one who is just a beginner at something
- culpable
- deserving blame, worthy of condemnation
- supposition
- something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence
- astute
- shrewd, showing practical wisdom
- equivocate
- to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation
- nebulous
- could like, resembling a could