voc 61-70
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- perplex
- confuse
- copious
- abundant
- traverse
- to cross
- bibliophile
- book lover
- demography
- study of populations
- sanguine
- cheerful
- ostentatious
- showy
- microcosm
- small universe
- defenestrate
- toos out the window
- animus
- intent or hatred
- nonplused
- bewildrered, perplexed
- interdiction
- prohibition
- commensurate
- of like measure, equal
- neophyte
- beginner
- incredulous
- unbelieving
- demur
- to object
- poignant
- sharp
- lassitude
- languor, weariness
- apprehend
- to understand
- prodigious
- amazing
- indolent
- lazy
- persiflage
- flippant syle
- ambiguous
- indefinite
- ambivalence
- conflicting feelings
- déclassé
- low class
- putative
- thought-to-be
- mollify
- to make soft
- gregarious
- sociable
- altercation
- heated dispute
- alter ego
- second self
- to philander
- to engage in love affairs
- apocrypha
- unauthentic works
- tendentious
- slanted
- importune
- to trouble with requests
- apothegm
- a pithy saying
- cacoethes
- a mania
- precept
- maxim
- veridical
- truthful
- pulchritude
- physical beauty
- expunge
- completely remove
- acerbity
- sharpness of temper
- perfidy
- breach of faith
- translucent
- semitransparent
- cacophony
- bad noise
- tangible
- touchable
- altruism
- concern for others
- obsequies
- funeral ceremonies
- exodus
- a departure
- pensive
- sadly thoughtful
- salubrious
- healthful
- demure
- modest or affectedly modest
- undulate
- to wave
- amiable
- friendly
- to abate
- to lessen
- serene
- clear, and calm
- obsequious
- servile
- to sedate
- to calm
- to condescend
- to lower oneself
- nihilism
- belief in nothing
- interstice
- small space
- dialectic
- logical argument
- temararious
- reckless
- sophist
- a specious reasoner
- erudite
- scholarly
- denouement
- unraveling of plot
- concupiscence
- intense desire or lust
- esculent
- edible
- pertinacious
- holding stubbornly
- interlocutor
- person in conversation
- aphorism
- a concise wisdom
- autodidact
- self-taught person
- reify
- treat as real
- in medias res
- in the middle of things
- circumvent
- to get around
- to exculpate
- to free from blame
- cupidity
- greed
- euphoria
- feeling of well-being
- protocol
- rules of ceremony
- odious
- disgusting
- visage
- face
- pontificate
- to speak dogmatically
- mendacious
- untruthful
- uxorious
- wife-doting
- apophasis
- mention by denial
- rebuke
- a sharp reprimand
- objurgation
- rebuke
- soporific
- sleep-inducing
- internecine
- mutually destructive
- dichotomy
- two-party division
- epiphany
- revelation
- eclectic
- from various sources
- numinous
- supernatural
- mendicant
- a beggar
- fatuous
- complacently stupid
- oblivion
- being forgotten
- propitious
- favorable disposed
- to requite
- to repay
- aphasia
- loss of speech
- nullifidian
- faithless person
- risible
- laughable
- assiduous
- perservering
- saturnine
- gloomy and remote
- vacuous
- stupidly empty of ideas
- ex cathedra
- from the throne
- pusillanimous
- small-minded
- sublime
- noble
- auto da fe
- burning a heretic
- ebullient
- enthusiastic
- impunity
- exemption from punishment
- illuminati
- enlightened intellects
- hegemony
- state dominance
- psychosis
- major mental denial
- neurosis
- mental disorder
- oleaginous
- oily
- to peregrinate
- to travel
- to reiterate
- to repeat
- desultory
- rambling
- idée fixe
- obsession
- precursor
- forerunner
- euphony
- beautiful sound
- attenuated
- thinned
- extraneous
- from outside
- profound
- deep
- sedulous
- diligent
- incunabula
- infancy
- parvenu
- an upstart
- sycophant
- an obsequious parasite
- adagio
- a slow movement
- desuetude
- disuse
- prolegomenon
- preliminary statement
- hedonism
- devotion to pleasure
- narcissism
- self-adoration
- patrician
- aristocratic
- miscreat
- an evil unbeliever
- terra firma
- firm land
- inchoate
- just begun
- peripatetic
- walking
- ambient
- surrounding
- tenuous
- thin
- ductile
- malleable
- fortuitous
- by chance
- surrogate
- substitute
- allude
- to indirectly refer
- dishabille
- partially dressed
- Sybarite
- a devotee to luxury
- stoicism
- indifference to sensation
- valediction
- farewell speech
- supercilious
- scornful
- moribund
- dying
- expository
- explanitory