semester two vocab
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- punctilious
- adj. demanding; conscientious
- dilatory
- adj. causing delay; characterized by procrastination
- prolific
- adj. producing young; abundant
- subterfuge
- n. something used to evade a rule
- accrue
- v. to come about as a natural growth; to be added periodically
- interpose
- v. to put between
- jaded
- adj. dulled by experience
- abate
- v. to put an end to; to reduce in degree or intensity
- remonstrate
- v. argue against
- ingratiate
- v. get on the good side of someone
- elicit
- v. to call forth or bring out
- blatant
- adj. completely obvious
- turgid
- adj. swollen
- soporific
- adj. of or relating to sleep
- hauteur
- n. arrogance
- callow
- adj. immature
- discursive
- adj. moving from topic to topic without order
- novice
- n. a beginner
- impetuous
- adj. acting without thinking
- surfeit
- n. an excess
- egregious
- adj. outstandingly bad or offensive;
- fervor
- n. intensity of feeling or expression
- privy
- adj. private; secret
- apparition
- n. an unusual or unexpected sight; phenomenon; ghostly figure
- fractious
- adj. stubborn, unruly
- swank
- adj. stylish
- laudable
- adj. worthy of praise
- reprove
- v. to correct with kind intent
- fortuitous
- fortunate, luky
- imperceptible
- adj. not perceptible by a sense or the mind
- irrevocable
- adj. unalterable
- innuendo
- n. a hint
- precipitate
- v. to throw violently, to bring about abruptly
- ectoplasm
- n. spiritualism
- acrimonious
- adj. bitter in nature, speech, behavior
- permeable
- adj. penetrable
- deleterious
- adj. injurious to ones health; harmful
- fetter
- n. something that confines
- querulous
- adj. full of complaints
- impregnable
- adj. incapable of being destroyed
- sabbatical
- n. an extended period of leave
- tenuous
- adj. having little substance or strength
- prosaic
- adj. dull, unimaginative
- perfidy
- n. loss of faith
- vicarious
- adj. felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others
- obtrusive
- adj. forward in manner or conduct
- exude
- v. to ooze out
- hiatus
- n. a break in time
- iota
- n. a tiny amount
- peremptory
- adj. expressive of urgency or command
- epitome
- n. a typical ideal or example
- surmise
- v. to imagine or infer something on slight grounds
- revelation
- n. something revealed or disclosed
- vulnerable
- adj. capable of being wounded
- winsome
- adj. innocently charming
- transient
- adj. lasting a short time
- candor
- n. kindliness; complete honesty
- stalwart
- adj. marked by outstanding strength
- affectation
- n. an effort to appear to have something that you don't really have
- poignant
- adj. touching; moving
- contrive
- v. to devise a plan
- incredulous
- adj. skeptical
- languid
- adj. drooping from exhaustion
- pungent
- adj. sharply painful
- contemptuous
- scornful; arrogant
- omnibus
- adj. pertaining to numerous objects at once
- reprobate
- n. an unprincipled, wicked person
- mitigate
- v. to cause to become less harsh
- proximity
- n. closeness
- sepulchral
- adj. funeral
- wheedle
- v. to entice by flattery
- verbose
- adj. characterized by the use of too many words
- vapid
- adj. without life; dull
- odious
- adj. extremely disliked
- conducive
- adj. tending to promote or assist