Chapter 9 Vocabulary
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- beatitude
- (n) a state of perfect happiness or blessedness; a blessing
- bête noire
- (n) someone or something that one especially dislikes, dreads, or avoids
- bode
- (v) to be an omen of; to indicate by signs
- dank
- (m) unpleasantly damp or wet
- ecumenical
- (m) worldwide or universal in influence or application
- fervid
- (m) burning with enthusiasm or zeal; extremely heated
- fetid
- (m) having an unpleasant or offensive odor
- gargantuan
- (m) of immense size, volume, or capacity; enormous, prodigious
- heyday
- (n) the period of greatest power, vigor, success, or influence; the prime years
- incubus
- (n) a demon or evil spirit supposed to haunt human beings in their bedrooms at night; anything that oppresses or weighs upon one, like a nightmare
- infrastructure
- (n) a basic foundation or framework; a system of public works; the resources and facilities required for an activity; permanent military installations
- inveigle
- (v) to entice, lure, or snare by flattery or artful inducements; to obtain or acquire by artifice
- kudos
- (n) the acclaim, prestige, or renown that comes as a result of some action or achievement
- lagniappe
- (n) an extra or unexpected gift or gratuity
- prolix
- (m) long winded and wordy; tending to speak or write in such a way
- protégé
- (n) someone whose welfare, training, or career is under the patronage of an influential person; someone under the juridiction of a foreign country or government
- prototype
- (n) an original pattern or model; a primitive or ancestral form
- sycophant
- (n) someone who attempts to win favors or advance him- or herself by flattery or servile behavior; a slanderer, defamer
- tautology
- (n) needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivalent words; a redundancy
- truckle
- (v) to yield or submit tamely or submissively
- desultory
- (m) pertaining to, given to, open to, or like, a dispute
- disparage
- (v) to belittle; speak slightingly or dishonor
- veritable
- (m) actual; genuine; real; true
- profligate
- (m) given up to vice; wicked; recklessly extravagant
- punctilious
- (m) very nice or precise in conduct; exact
- remunerate
- (v) to pay an equivalent to (a person) in return for service, loss, expense, or the like
- rubricate
- (v) to mark or make prominent with red
- slattern
- (n) a careless, slovenly woman
- actuate
- (v) to move or incite to effort; to put into motion
- avatar
- (n) a descent, as of a deity to earth in bodily form; an embodiment; a manifestation