Vocab Lit Ch 11
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- Abstemious
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adj. Moderate, sparing (as in eating and dribking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline.
S: temperate, sober, moderate
A: indulgent, immoderate, intemperate - Censurable
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adj. deserving blame or correction
S: blameworthy, discreditable, reprehensible
A: commendable, laudable, meritorious - Contingent
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adj. likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance.
n. a representative group forming part of a larger body
S: conditional, dependent, a detachment
A: independent of, uncconected with, certain - Corroborate
- v. to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify
- Denizen
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n. an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place
S: resident, dweller
A: alien, outsider, stranger - Discursive
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adj. passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rembling, roving, nomadic
S: wandering, episodic
A: short and to the point - Disseminate
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v. to scatter or spread widely
S: disperse, publicize, broadcast
A: concentrate, muster, conceal, hide - Dowdy
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adj. poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste
S: frumpy, tacky, drab
A: chic, stylish - Florid
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adj. highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy
S: flowery, flamboyant
A: pale, sallow, austere - Gauche
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adj. awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy
S: inept, maladroit
A: adroit, tactful - Foist
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v. to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by steath, dishonestly or coercion
S: pass off, fob off - Heresy
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n. an opinion different from accepted belief
S: heterodoxy
A: orthodoxy - Inculcate
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v. to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly
S: instill, implant, infuse, imbue
A: efface, extirpate, root out - Palpable
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adj. capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard or recognized
S: tangible, plain, obvious
A: intangible, insubstantial - Perceptive
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adj. having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreaciation
S: insightful, observant
A: dense, thick, dim-witted - Pernicious
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adj. extremely harmful; deadly, fatal
S: injurious, baleful
A: harmless, salutary - Salient
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adj. leaping, jumping or spring forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous; n. a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward
S: striking, notable, obvious
A: inconspicuous - Satiate
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v. to satisfy completely; to fill to excess; adj. full, satisfied
S: gratify, cloy, gorge
A: starve, deprive entirely of - Sear
- v. to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, single
- Specious
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adj. deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit
S: deceptively plausible, sophistic, casuistic
A: valid, sound, solid, genuine