1st 50 Vocab words
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- academic
- of, relating to, or characterisic of a school of higher learning
- alluded
- to make an indirect reference
- ambiguous
- open to more than one interpretation, doubtful, uncertain
- analogy
- similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar,
- ascertain
- to discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation
- ascribes
- to attribute to a specific cause, source or origin, to assign as a quality or characteristic
- cherub
- an angel, a child with a chubby face
- confined
- to keep within bounds
- conspicuous
- easy to notice; obvious, attracting attention
- digress
- to turn aside, stray
- disconcerting
- to upset; to ruffle; to embarass; to disorder; to disarrange
- discretion
- the quality of being discrete; prudence; ability to decide responsibility; freedom to act on one's own
- distinguish
- to perceive as being different or distinct; recognizable
- doctrine
- a body of principles;
- eccentric
- departing from the norm, or path
- exhibitionism
- act of behaving to attract attention
- exuberance
- the quality of having joy; being lavish or extravagant; extreme in size
- foolhardy
- unwisely bold ; reckless
- gamut
- complete range or extent
- grueling
- physically or mentally exhausting
- hackneyed
- overfamiliar through overuse; trite
- hyperbole
- an exaggeration
- illusion
- an wrong idea of reality; condition of being deceived by a false belif
- images
- a reproduction of the form of a person or object
- implement
- a tool
- improvident
- not providing for the future; thriftless; spender
- inarticulate
- not speaking with words
- infallible
- not able to make a mistake;
- infer
- to conclude from evidence; to reason from circumstance
- inquisitive
- inclined to investigate
- intangible
- incapable of being perceived by the senses;
- intriguing
- in engage in secret ; to effect by secret scheming or plotting; to arouse the interest or couriosity of
- jargon
- nonsensible, meaningless talk; technical language of a trade
- misogyny
- hatred of women
- momentous
- of utmost importance
- mortal
- can die; human;
- nonentity
- a person regarded as being of no importance; nonexistance;
- obscure
- dark; unclear; out of sight
- pedantic
- characterized by a narrow; concern for book learning and formal rules
- picturesqueness
- suitable for a picture; unusual; vivid
- pragmatic
- dealing with facts; practical
- proclivities
- a natural propensity or inclination ; predisposition
- protagonist
- main character; the leader
- prying
- insistantly curious or inquisitive
- random
- having no specific pattern,
- relegated
- to assign to an obscure place or position; banish
- satirical
- characterized by as ironic; sarcastic;
- tedious
- tiresome by reason or length; boring; slow
- tinge
- to apply a tint of color to; to affect slightly;
- confided
- to tell in confidence; to entrust