Vocabulary 1-4 2
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- immutable
- unchangeable
- facile
- easy
- egregious
- outrageous
- derision
- ridicule; mocking, to laugh against
- entreat
- to plead earnestly
- equivocation
- avoid giving a definite answer; answer with intention of deceiving
- expostulate
- to reason earnestly with someone in an effort to correct
- felicity
- great happiness
- filial
- of or befitting a son or daughter
- garish
- gaudy, showy
- hone
- to sharpen
- idiom
- a style or manner of expression particular to a given people
- dearth
- a scarce supply
- encompass
- to surround
- droll
- amusingly odd or whimsical
- depreciate
- to lessen the price or value of
- despotic
- autocratic; ruling with absolute power
- desultory
- jumping from one thing to another; random
- dire
- urgently desperate
- dominion
- realm; sovereignty
- chagrin
- embarrassment
- congenital
- existing at birth, but not inherited
- convivial
- sociable, jovial
- convoke
- to call together
- conjecture
- to guess; to suppose
- capitulate
- to surrender
- benevolence
- an act of kindness
- autocratic
- arrogant
- cynical
- distrusting or skeptical of other's motives
- crystalline
- strikingly clear or sparkling
- contrition
- sincere remorse for wrong doing
- collateral
- property pledged as security for a loan
- coalesce
- to grow together; to fuse
- cleft
- a split as if with a sharp instrument
- circumvent
- to get around by artful manuveuring
- casellated
- having battlements
- admonish
- to warn
- apathy
- indifferent; lack of interest
- anomaly
- straying from the norm
- anarchy
- lack of government
- calumnious
- slanderous; misrepresentation to blacken one's reputation
- blase
- sophistocated; uninterested due to frequent exposure
- belie
- to picture falsely
- behoove
- to be necessary or proper for
- avaricious
- greedy
- auspicious
- favorable circumstances; prosperous
- antithesis
- direct opposition
- amiss
- faulty; out of proper order
- imminent
- About to occur; impending
- impeccable
- having no flaws; perfect
- incantation
- Ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect.
- incarnate
- invested with bodily nature and form
- incognito
- With one's identity disguised or concealed.
- indiscriminate
- Not making or based on careful distinctions; unselective
- inexorable
- Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless
- inexplicable
- Difficult or impossible to explain
- anarchronism
- something out of its proper time
- dolt
- stupid person
- digress
- to stray away from the main topic
- eulogy
- praise for a dead person
- infuse
- to put into or introduce by pouring
- jocund
- lighthearted in disposition
- lilting
- a lively matter of speaking
- myriad
- a limitless amount
- nascent
- coming into existence
- nonchalant
- cooly unconcerned/ indifferent
- opaque
- hard to understand; light can't pass through
- pall
- cover for a coffin; something to suggest something bad
- lucid
- shining; easily understood
- ludicrous
- ridiculous
- magnanimous
- generous; noble
- malevolent
- wishing evil
- pedagogical
- pertaining to teaching
- perdition
- loss of the soul; eternal damnation
- peruse
- to read or examine
- pervasive
- spread throughout as to be seen everywhere
- portentous
- exciting wonder and awe; foreboding
- precept
- a rule prescribing a particular course of action
- prodigal
- rashly extravagant
- proficient
- skillful; expert
- misanthrope
- hater of mankind
- mundane
- worldly; earthly
- nefarious
- extremely wicked
- obviate
- to prevent; like a roadblock
- proavocative
- tending to stimulate into anger or annoyance
- pulsate
- vibrate
- qualm
- a sudden misgiving; uneasy feeling about rightiousness about what you are doing
- quandary
- dilemma
- rapt
- engrossed
- reiterate
- to tell again
- requiem
- hymn for the dead
- rueful
- regretful
- pancrea
- cure all
- perspective
- relation of parts to one another and to the whole
- pseudonym
- assumed name to conceal identity
- recalitrant
- no obedient