Big Vocab. Test
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- Misdemeanor
- A crime less serious than a felony
- Pathos
- symathetic pity
- Infamy
- Evil reputation
- Invariable
- Not changing or capable of change
- Incessant
- Following without interruption
- Scintillating
- To emit sparks
- Stringent
- Marked by rigor/strictness
- Vagrant
- Nomad with no lawful or visible means of support
- Caveat
- Warning, enjoining one from certain acts or practices
- Enumurate
- Count or List
- Desolate
- Devoid of inhabitants and visitors
- Venerable
- Made sacred
- Vitriol
- Angry, discontent, harsh language
- Prodigious
- Resembling a prodigy
- Physiognomy
- facial expression showing characteristics
- Marrow
- connective tissue
- Throng
- Multitude of persons
- Tempest
- A violent storm
- Quicken
- to make alive; to become more rapid; shine brightly
- Propagate
- To cause to spread out
- Cajole
- Persuade with flatter
- Orthodox
- Conforming to established doctrine esp. religion
- Beneficent
- Doing or producing good
- Emulate
- To strive to be equal
- Allegory
- The expression by means of a symbolic fictional generalizations about humans
- Wanton
- Hard to control/ without checks or limitations
- Nutriment
- Something that nourishes or promotes growth
- Melancholy
- An abnormal state attributed to an excess of black bile and characterized by depression
- Usury
- Lending money with interest
- Raiment
- Clothing Garments
- Toil
- Hardship
- Heterodox
- Contrary or different from an acknowledged standard
- Propinquity
- Nearness in place a time/ of blood
- Hackneyed
- lacking in freshness/ originality
- Evanescent
- Vanishing away, fading. Scarcely perceptible.
- Lurid
- Ghastly pale in appearance
- Drivel
- Talk stupidly or carelessly
- Barbarity
- Cruelty, an act or instance of such cruelty
- Indubitable
- Too evident to be doubted
- Repudiate
- Separate, refuse to accept
- Impertinent
- Not restrained with proper bounds. Rudeness
- Salient
- Move by leaps, springs
- Ameliorate
- To make better or more tolerable; to grow better
- Proclivity
- Inclimation, Predisposition
- Approbation
- The act of approving
- Perverse
- Corrupt, improper, incorrect
- Deference
- Respect or esteem due a superior or an elder
- Simulate
- To give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive
- Accord
- To bring into agreement: Reconcile
- Inscrutable
- Not easily understood
- Nebulous
- Indistinct, Vague
- Sustenance
- Support maintenance
- Exult
- Leap for joy
- Rend
- To remove violently
- Conjecture
- decision deduced by sumrise or guesswork
- Precocious
- exceptionally early in development
- Inclement
- Lacking mildness
- Vestment
- A religious garb
- Scathing
- bitterly severe
- Providence
- Divine guidance or care
- Emancipate
- To free form restraint, control or the power of another
- Vivacity
- Lively in temper
- Acute
- Characterized by sharpness severity
- Vigor
- active bodily or mental strength or force
- Edifice
- A large or massive structure
- Earnest
- Proceeding from a serious state of mind
- Transcend
- To rise above or go beyond the limits of
- Allusion
- An implied or indirect reference
- Amenable
- Liable to be brought to account: yield, submit, cooperate
- Deplorable
- Deserving censure or contempt: Wretched
- Plebeian
- One of the common people
- Scruples
- Ethical consideration
- Incisive
- Penetrating, cutting, biting, remarkable clear and direct
- Anathema
- One that is cursed/disliked/loathed