English Vocab PT3
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perfect, COMpleTE, supremely skillful
- PERQ a priviledge that goes along with a job; a PERK
- circumlocution
- an indirect expression
- disteND
- to swell, to expaND a great deal
- furTIVE
- secreTIVE, shy
- percipitous
- steep
- proletariat
- industrial working class
- recalcitrant
- stubbonrly defient of authority, disobedient
- reiterate
- to say again or repeat
- audacity
- boldness; reckless daring
- callow
- immature, shallow
- chimera
- an illusion, foolish fancy
- contrite
- admitting quilt; especially feeling remorseful
- decadent
- decaying or decayed, especially in terms of morals
- deduce
- to conclude from evidence, to infer
- disdain
- to reject with contempt or scorn
- egalitarian
- believing in the social and economic equality of all people
- enervate
- to reduce the strength or energy of, especially to do so gradually
- eqreqious
- extremely bad or offensive
- erudite
- scholarly; deeply learned
- exalt
- to raise high, to glorify
- itenerant
- moving from place to place
- metamorphosis
- a magical change in form, a striking or sudden change
- misanthropic
- hating mankind
- moribund
- approacing death, about to die
- odious
- arousing hatred
- officious
- annoyingly eager to help or advise
- permptory
- final, dictatorial
- petulant
- rude, cranky, ill-tempored
- rapacious
- greedy, plundering, avaricious
- recant
- to publicly take back, to deny
- rogue
- a criminal or dishonest person
- sacrosanct
- sacred; held to be unviolable
- sloth
- laziness, slugishness
- stricture
- restriction, limitation
- tenacious
- persistant, stubborn
- urbane
- sophisticated, poised, refined
- verbose
- using too many words
- whimsical
- capricious, oddly out of the ordinary, subject to sudden change
- PERQ a priviledge that goes along with a job; a PERK