College Vocab
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- Quixotic
- exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical
- Exscind
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To cut out; excise.
- Punctilious
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showing great attention to detail or correct behavior
- Epicure
- a person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
- Evince
- reveal the presence of (a quality or feeling)
- Enervate
- cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
- Froward
- (of a person) difficult to deal with; contrary.
- Salacious
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(of writing, pictures, or talk) treating sexual matters in an indecent way and typically conveying undue interest in or enjoyment of the subjec
- Fatuous
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silly and pointless
- Turgid
- swollen and distended or congested
- Volubility
- speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently
- Arabesque
- an ornamental design consisting of intertwined flowing lines
- Fecund
- producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile
- Extirpate
- root out and destroy completely
- Iconoclastic
- a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular
- Assiduous
- showing great care and perseverance
- Palliate
- make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause
- Turpitude
- depravity; wickedness
- Opprobrious
- (of language) expressing opprobrium. disgraceful; shameful
- Antediluvian
- belonging to the time before the biblical Flood - old