GIGUNDA 201-300 2
Terms
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- abstemious
- moderate
- ananthema
- object of intense dislike
- avant garde
- something before its time
- cashiered
- dismissed from service
- conundrum
- a riddle
- dilapidated
- in a condition of ruin or decay
- ennui
- boredom
- fervent
- showing great emotion
- hackneyed
- trite, overused
- inconsequential
- unimportant
- intercede
- to plead on someone else's behalf
- languor
- sluggishness
- narcotic
- a drug that dulls the senses
- ostensible
- apparent or seeming
- potpurri
- a mixture
- pungent
- sharp, biting, stimulating
- rout
- to poke around, dig with the snout
- sinecure
- an extremely easy job
- temerity
- foolish boldness
- vestige
- a trace of something that is no longer present
- accrue
- to accumulate
- apiary
- a place where bees are kept
- bas-relief
- carving or sculpture where the figures are slightly raised
- cherubic
- chubby and innocent looking
- culvert
- artificial channel for water
- disdain
- a feeling of contempt or scorn
- equitable
- fair
- flout
- to mock
- heresy
- an opinion differing from the accepted belief
- inculcate
- to teach persistently
- inveigh
- express strong disapproval
- malapropism
- misuse of words
- noisome
- harmful
- panache
- dashing elegance, flamboyance
- preclude
- prevent
- quench
- to drown out
- sang fraud
- composure or coolness
- sporific
- tending to cause sleep
- torpid
- inactive
- vituperation
- bitter and abusive language
- adventitious
- resulting from chance
- apprehension
- dread
- bombastic
- pretentious in speech or writing
- citadel
- fortress
- debonair
- polished, urbane
- divination
- the act of foretelling
- ethereal
- highly refined and exquisite
- frangible
- brittle
- hypothetical
- a guess
- inexorable
- relentless
- jaundice
- yellow discoloration of the skin (Kimmy!)
- Maudlin
- weakly sentimental
- nostalgia
- longing for the past
- pendulous
- hanging loosely or freely
- prerogative
- special privelage
- rankle
- to irritate or anger constantly
- scaffold
- a temporary platform for holding workers
- stringent
- strict
- tremulous
- fearul, timid
- waif
- someone who is orpahned or unclaimed
- allusion
- indirect reference
- ascribe
- to refer to
- burnished
- glossy or polished
- collate
- to arrange in order
- deference
- submissions to the wishes of another
- dupe
- a person easily tricked or fooled
- excise
- to remove or cut out
- gauche
- tasteless, crude
- impassivity
- showing no emotion
- ingenuity
- inventive skill or imagination
- kilter
- good condition
- meritorious
- praiseworthy
- obscure
- difficult to understand
- pestilential
- dangerous, harmful
- procrastinate
- to put off until later (what you probably have done if it is now 9:00 Sunday night)
- remorseful
- having pity or compassion
- scurrilous
- vulgar, foul-mouthed
- subversive
- intending to overthrow
- unctuous
- excessively smooth and smug
- winsome
- charming
- amiable
- agreeable, sociable
- aura
- a distinctive air
- callow
- without experience, immature
- concupiscence
- lust
- derivative
- copied or adapted from the work of others
- elicit
- to bring out
- expurgate
- to purify
- gratuitous
- freely given
- implausible
- not believable
- innovative
- creative
- laconic
- terse
- mortify
- humiliate
- odium
- hatred
- plumage
- feathery bird covering :)
- propensity
- natural inclination
- restitution
- the act of making up for a loss
- senescence
- the aging process
- surmise
- to guess
- venial
- capable of being forgiven
- zenith
- the highest point