VocabK
Terms
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- yammer
- to ramble
- zaftig
- a woman whose body is plump/juicy/voluptuous
- ululate
- yell/howl
- dinkum
- truly;honestly;authentic
- torpor
- lethargy
- virago
- a woman who is over-bearing/strong-willed or courageous
- wittol
- a man who is aware of infidelities of wife, but ignores it
- xenophile
- love of foreigners
- yaw
- to vacillate/flip back and forth
- zip
- zero/nothing
- uxorious
- hen-pecked/man is whipped/controlled by wife
- epicene
- androgynous;unisex
- brachylogy
- a brief, concise statement
- jettison
- to discard
- calumny
- slander, language spoken against someone/something
- facinorous
- escessively wicked or evil
- aleatoric
- random occurence
- flippant
- you do not really care about something
- jingoism
- nationalist/chauvinistic speech characterized by nationalism
- fey
- other-wordly (connotation some sort of negative upcoming event)
- glabrous
- bald
- hubris
- excessive pride
- irascible
- short-tempered
- juxtaposition
- set two this close; relationship; compariosn; side-by-side
- impugn
- to doubt the truth/honesty of something
- inundate
- to be flooded;overflowing;overwhelmed
- matriculate
- to be admitted to
- moxie
- strength, courage, bravery
- litote
- opposite of hyperbole; an understatement that expresses an affirmative thought negatively
- kitsch
- cheesy
- lugubrious
- sorrowful/mournful
- mimesis
- imitation
- mimetic
- imitative
- nascent
- introduction into the world/birth
- occident
- the western world
- occidental
- western
- mnemonic
- memory aid
- nystagmus
- involuntary oscillation/twitching of the eye
- ochlocracy
- mobocracy;mob rule
- kismet
- fate
- mercurial
- unpredictable changing of mood; whimsical with mood
- prolix
- excessive;verbose;wordy
- pithy
- directly to the point
- quixotic
- unpredictable changing of mood
- phlegmatic
- severly calm; slow/slowed temperment
- queue
- waiting in line
- pulchritude
- physical beauty
- prostrate
- lying down
- querulous
- whining/complaining
- sycophant
- someone who flatters in order to win favor
- tarry
- to waste time
- profligate
- excessively extravagant to a fault
- quintessesence
- representative example/ideal
- raze
- to demolish
- sesquicentennial
- 150 years
- tenable
- readily grasped/comprehended
- rodomontade
- bragging speech
- turgid
- swelling of language;grandiloquent words
- turpitude
- vile, wicked or evil
- verisimilitude
- very similar to
- wyrd
- anglo-saxon word for fate
- vitriol
- horrible/abusive
- vituperate
- hateful/abusive language
- verboten
- forbidden
- ubiquitous
- omnipresent;all over
- xenophobia
- fear of foreigners
- vacillate
- to waver;debate back and forth between something
- winnow
- separate/sort/divide into categories
- apercu
- a brief sketch/drawing/presentation of something
- didactic
- intended to teach
- discrete
- separate;different;distinguished
- callipygian
- the condition/shape of having a beautiful buttocks
- epistemology
- study of knowledge and how we know what we know
- episteme
- theory of knowledge
- enjambment
- the continuation of a sound sent from one line to another (in poetry); no common break added for effect
- aver
- to confirm as authentic; to agree something is authentic
- ennui
- boredom
- effete
- feminine; lacking strength
- aubade
- poem welcoming coming of morning/dawn; poem about morning
- bellicose
- belligerent/hostile, agressive
- cajole
- to persuade; to egg on
- dilettante
- someone who thinks they are better than you because they know a lot about art and culture
- exegesis
- interpretation
- chthonic
- the object/person dwells in the underworld
- diffident
- shy
- blithe
- merry;happy;joyous
- egalitarian
- everyone should be treated equally