Vocab 19-21
Terms
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- raze
- to tear down or demolish
- despoil
- to deprive of possessions or property by force
- surfeit
- an ecessive amount
- jettison
- to discard as unwanted or burdensome
- colloquium
- academic seminar on a broad field of study, usually led by a different lecturer at each meeting; confrence
- replete
- plentifully supplied; abounding
- stultify
- to render useless or inadeuqate
- edict
- a formal proclamation, command, or decree
- loquacious
- very talkative
- interdict
- to prohibit or forbid
- elocution
- the art of public speaking, emphasizing gesture, vocal production, and delivery
- pinnacle
- the highest point
- grandiloquence
- pompous or bombastic speech or expression
- soliloquy
- a literary or dramatic form of discourse in which a character reveals thoughts
- tumult
- a disorderly, noisey movement of people
- inundate
- to overhelm as if with a flood; swamp.
- effectual
- producing or sufficient to produce a desire result
- obviate
- to prevent by anticipating; make unnecessary
- surmount
- to overcome; conquer
- prodigal
- recklessly wasteful
- wrest
- to obtain by or as by pulling with violent twisting movements
- avarice
- an extreme desire for wealth; greed
- insatiable
- incapable of being fully satisfied
- myriad
- constituting a very large, indefinite number
- benediction
- an invocation of divine blessing; blessing
- deleterious
- having a harmful effect
- interlocutor
- someone who takes part in a conversation
- parsimony
- unusual or excessive frugality; stinginess
- indict
- to accuse of a crime or other offense
- voluminous
- having great volume, fullness, size, or number