vocab 4
Terms
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- morass (figuratively)
- a confusing situation that has trapped/overwhelmed a person
- foray
- a quick raid, especially for plunder, a venture into some field of endeavor
- pragmatic
- concerned with PRACTICAL considerations or values
- bilious
- peevish or irritable; sickeningly unpleasant
- diaphanous
- very sheer/light, almost completely transparent
- quasi
- resembling but not actually being, seeming but not real
- lachrymose
- mournful, given to tears/weeping
- affinity
- a natural attraction to a person/thing/activity, a relationship
- raillery
- good-natured teasing/ridicule
- rapacity
- excessive greed, the disposition of wanting to take over others' things by force/extortion/plunder
- insouciant
- casually indifferent/unconcerned/carefree
- morass (literally)
- a swamp/patch of low wet ground
- pundit
- a learned person/one who gives authoritative opinions
- ribald
- irreverently mocking; vulgar/indecent in language/behavior
- effete
- worn-out, exausted, unable to produce
- paean
- a song of praise/joy/triumph