Chapters 1-6 in Vocab Book
Terms
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- approbation
- official approval
- assuage
- to make easier: to put an end to
- caolition
- a combination, union for some specific purpose
- decandence
- decline, decay: a conditon or period of decline or decay
- elicit
- to draw forth, bring out from some source
- expostulate
- to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or dicision by earnest reasoning
- hackneyed
- used so often that it lacks originality
- innuedo
- a hint, indirect suggestio, or reference
- intercede
- to plead on behalf of someone else
- jaded
- wearied, worn out, dulled
- lurid
- causing shock, horror, or revulsion; gory
- meritorious
- deserving of recognition and praise
- petulant
- peevish; annoyed by trifles; irritable
- prerogative
- a special right or privlege
- provincial
- pertaining ot an outlying area, narrow in mind or outlook; a person with a narrow point of view
- simulate
- to make a oretense of, imitate, to shoe the outer signs of
- transcend
- to rise above or beyond, exceed
- umbrage
- an overshadowing influence or power, irritation, annoyance
- hiatus
- a gap, opening break, pause
- unctuous
- excessivly smooth or smug: trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness
- ameliorate
- to improve, make better
- aplomb
- poise, assurance, great self-confidence
- bombastic
- overblown in lanuage
- callow
- without experience, immature
- drivel
- saliva or mucus flowing from th mouth to the nose, foolish aimlis talk or thinking; to let saliva flow from the mouth to the nose, to utter nonsense
- epitome
- a summary, an instance that represents a larger reality
- exhort
- to urge strongly
- ex officio
- by virtue of holding a certain office
- infringe
- to violate, trespass
- ingratiate
- to make oneself aggreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance
- interloper
- one who moves in where he or she is not wanted, an intruder
- intrinsic
- belonging to someone or something by its very nature, organic
- inveigh
- to make a violent attack in words
- lassitude
- lack of energy
- millenium
- a period of 1000 years; a period of great joy
- occult
- mysterious magical supernatura, not dectable by ordinary means; to hide or conceal; matters envolving the supernatural
- permeate
- soak through, penetrate, to spread through
- precipitate
- to fall as moisture; characterizes as excessive haste; moistuer, the product of an action
- stringent
- strict, severe, rigorous
- surmise
- to think or beliee without certain supporting evidence; likely idea that lacks definate proof
- abominate
- to have an intense dislike or hatred for
- acculturation
- the modification of the social patterns , adaptation
- adventitious
- resulting from chance rather than from an inherit cause or character
- ascribe
- to assign or refer to, attribute
- circuitous
- roundabout, not direct
- commiserate
- to sympathize with, have pitty or sorrow for, empathize
- enjoin
- to direct or order to prescribe a course of an action in an authorative way
- expedite
- to make easy, to cause progress faster
- expiate
- to make ammends, to avert
- ferment
- a state of great excitement, to be in or work into such a state
- inadvertent
- resulting from or marked by lack of attention
- nominal
- existing in name only
- noncommitable
- not decisive or definate
- peculate
- to steal something that has been given into one's trust
- proclivity
- a natural or habitual inclination or tendency
- sangfroid
- composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances
- seditious
- resistent to lawful authority
- tenuous
- thin, slender, lacking clarity, vague, hazy
- vitriolic
- bitter, sarcastic; highly caustic or biting
- wheedle
- to use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end
- affable
- courteous and pleasent
- aggrandize
- to increase in greatness, power and wealth
- amorphous
- shapeless, without definate form
- aura
- that which surrounds; a distinctive air or personal quality
- contraband
- illegal traffic, smuggled goods
- erudite
- scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
- gossamer
- thin, light, delicate, insubstantial; a very thin light cloth
- infer
- to find out by reasoning, imply
- inscrutable
- incapable of being understood
- insular
- realting to, narrow or isolated in outlook or experience
- irrevocable
- incapable of being changed or called back
- propensity
- a natural inclination or prediction toward
- querulous
- peevish,complaining, fretful
- remonstrate
- to argue to plead with someone against something
- repudite
- to disown, reject, or deny the validity of
- resilient
- able to return to an originally shape or for, able to recover quickly
- scurrilous
- coarsly abusive, vulger or low, foul-mouthed
- sedulous
- persistent, showing industry and determination
- reverberate
- to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatably
- sleazy
- thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; cheesy
- amnesty
- a general pardon for an offense against a goverment
- autonomy
- self-goverment, political control
- axiomatic
- self eveident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
- blazon
- to adorn or embellish
- caveat
- a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
- equitable
- fair, just embodying principles of justice
- extricate
- to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort
- filch
- to steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
- flout
- to mock, treat with contempt
- fractious
- tending to be troublesome, unruly, quarrelsome, contrary
- precept
- a rule of conduct or action
- salutary
- beneficial, helpful
- scathing
- bitterly severe, causing great harm
- scourge
- to whip, punish severly;
- sepulchral
- funereal, typical of the tomb
- soporific
- tending to cause slepp
- straitlaced
- extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct
- transient
- lasting only a short time, fleeting
- unwiedly
- not easily carried, handled or managed because of soze or complexity
- vapid
- dull, uninteresting, tiresome
- anomalous
- abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
- aspersion
- a damaging or derogatory starement
- bizarre
- extremely strange
- brusque
- abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
- cajole
- to coax, to presuade through flattery or artifice
- castigate
- to punish severly
- contrive
- to plan with ingenuity, invent, concoct, concieve
- demagogue
- a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promisses in order to gain power
- disabuse
- weariness and dissatisfaction from the lack of occupation or intrest, boredom
- ennui
- weariness and dissastifaction from the lack of occupationor intrest, boredom
- fetter
- a chain or shackle placed o the feet; to chain or shackle
- heinous
- very wicked, offensive, hateful
- immutable
- not subject to change, constant
- insurgent
- one who rebels or rises against authority
- magalomania
- a delusion marked by feeling of power, wealth, talent
- sinecure
- a position requiring little or no work
- surreptitious
- stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; mde or accomplished by fraud
- transgress
- to go beyond a limit or boundary
- transmute
- to change from one nature, substance, or form to another
- vicarious
- performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another