Vocabulary set four
Terms
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- Tart(ly)
- Mildly cutting, sarcastic or sharp; having sharp or stinging qualities
- Perpetrate
- to do or commit (a crime, fraud, trick or anything bad or foolish)
- Analogous
- similar in certain qualities, cirmumstances or uses; comparable
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entailment
entail - impose or require; to limit the passage of (an estate or land) to a specified line of heirs so that it cannot be passed to anyone else
- Quibble
- an unfair or petty evasion of the point or truth by suing words with a double meaning; a leagal quibble
- iniquity
- gross injustice or untighteousness; wickedness, sin; wicked or unjust act
- benevolence
- desire to promote the happiness of others; goodwill; kindly feeling; act of kindness; something good that is done; generous gift
- incipient
- at the beginning stages
- ubiquitous
- present everywhere; being everywhere at the same time
- venture
- a risky or daring undertaking; spectulation to make money; to expose to risk or danger; to dare to say or make
- rustic
- belonging to or suitable for he country; rural; simple, plain; rough or awkward; made of branches with the bark still on them; an awkward, unrefined, boorish person coming from the country
- prohibition
- act of forbidding; law or laws against making or selling alcoholic beverages; period between 1920 and 1933 when national prohibitation was in force in the US
- covet
- desire eagerly (something that belongs to another)
- meticulous
- extremely or excessively careful about details
- mollify
- soften in temper; calm, pacify; appease; mitigate
- unobtrusive
- inconspicuous; not inclined to put forward opinions
- abstemious
- sparing in eating and drinking; moderate
- admonish
- to advise against, warn; scold gently, reprove
- indolent
- lazy, idle, disliking work
- zealous
- full of enthusiamsm, very eager, enthusiastic
- rigorous
- full of strictness or hardship; very stern or strict
- pagan
- heathen; not according to established religion; who worships many gods or no god
- equitable
- equal; impartially just; fair
- copious
- very plentiful, abundant
- superfluous
- extra, unneeded, excess
- reparation
- a giving of satisfaction or compensation for wrong or injury done
- supercilious
- haughty, proud, contemptuous; showing scorn or indifference because of a feeling of superiority
- negligible
- unimportant; insignificant; not worth regard
- intuitive
- able to understand truths facts, ect. without reasoning; perceptive
- invoke
- call on in prayer; appeal to for help or protection appeal to or ask earneslty
- nebulous
- hazy, vague, confused, cloud-like
- indigence
- extreme need poverty
- garrulous
- talkative, coluble, worky
- ululate
- to howl, lament loudly
- pinnacle
- high peak or peak; the highest point of
- paunch
- a large protruding belly
- entity
- being a thing in existence, that whisch has a real/seperate existence- actually or in the mind
- assimulate
- to take in and make part of oneself, absorb, digest; cause to be like the people of a nation in cusome, viewpoint, character
- brethren
- brothers, fellow members of a church, society, profession
- accost
- approach and speak to first, address
- articulate
- uttered in distinct syllables of words; able to puts one's thoughts into words easily and clearly; sonsisting of sections united by joints; to speak distincly; to express onself in words; to fit together in a joint
- jeer
- to make fun rudely/unkindly, to speak or treat derisively
- jetty
- a structure of stones or wooden piles projecting from shore to break the force of a current or waves; a landing lace; pier
- fervor
- great warmth or feeling; intense emotion; enthusiasm/earnestness
- duplicity
- secretly acting one way and openly acting in another in order to deceive; deceitfulness