vocab nov 6
Terms
undefined, object
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- niggardly
- stingy; unwillingness to give, share, or spend
- avowal
- an open admission or statement
- capitulate
- to accede a demand for surrender
- nanosecond
- one billionth of a sec
- lucid
- intelligible, clear
- demarcate
- to establish limits for
- heretic
- a person who professes belief in a dogma or a system of belief, but differs with a tenet of that system
- diurnal
- occuring during the daytime
- inveigh
- to protest strongly
- flippant
- showing an inappropriate disregard for decorum; disrespectful
- maraud
- to wander in search of booty or invade for treasure
- seethe
- to boil; someone who internalizeds agitation or anger
- discomfit
- to cause to come into disorder
- palatable
- agreeable in taste/ acceptable
- semantics
- science of the way meaning is communicated through language
- adorit
- nimble, expert, or skillful in the use of ones hands or body; adept in accomplishing ones goals
- ostracize
- to exclude or banish
- pugilism
- boxing
- lurid
- grusome
- titular
- by title only
- hominid
- member of the animal family to which humans belong