September 2005 Words
Terms
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- capacious
- (adj) able to contain much
- trammel
- (n) something that impedes activity, progress or freedom; (v) to hamper
- busker
- (n) a street musician of performer
- sybarite
- (n) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure
- deride
- (v) to laugh at with contempt
- cavil
- (v) to raise trivial objections; (n) a trivial objection
- farrago
- (adj) an assortment, a medley
- demagogue
- (n) a leader who obtains power by means of appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace
- quaff
- (v) to drink with relish
- hirsute
- (adj) covered with hair or bristles
- tenebrous
- (adj) dark, gloomy
- ostentation
- (n) excessive or pretentious display
- officious
- (adj) meddlesome
- afflatus
- (n) a divine inspiration
- quorum
- (n) such a number of the officers or members of any body as is legally competent to transact business
- hauteur
- (n) haughtiness, arrogance
- xenophobia
- (n) fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign
- bacchanalia
- (n) a revel
- immure
- (v) to enclose within or as if within walls
- deliquesce
- (v) to melt away or become liquid
- capitulate
- (v) to surrender under agreed conditions
- adventitious
- (adj) added extrinsically, not essentially inherent
- modicum
- (adj) a small or token amount
- fetid
- (adj) stinking
- gimcrack
- (n) a showy but useless or worthless object
- banal
- (adj) commonplace, trivial
- halcyon
- (adj) peaceful, undisturbed, happy
- adamant
- (adj) not susceptible to persuasion, unyielding
- jocund
- (adj) light-hearted, mirthful
- segue
- (v) to proceed without iinterruption