Vocabulary Lesson 14
Terms
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- Bombast
- Impressive but meaningless language
- Orthography
- Correct spelling
- Paleontology
- A science dealing with prehistoric life thorough the study of fossils
- Recoil
- TO retreat; to draw back
- Panache
- Self-confidence; a showy manner
- Saturnine
- Gloomy; sluggish
- Endemic
- Confined to a particular country or area
- Mendacious
- Lying; false; deceitful
- Obviate
- To prevent; to get around
- Aggrandize
- To enlarge; to expand
- Paroxysm
- A sudden outburst; a fit
- Deign
- TO lower oneself before an inferior
- Flaunt
- To show off
- Shibboleth
- A word or pronunciation that distinguishes someone as of a particular group
- Elicit
- TO draw forth; to call forth