English Vocab PT4
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- anomaly
- deviation or departure from the normal
- approbation
- approval; praise
- circuitous
- round-about; not following a particular direction
- circumscribe
- to draw a line around, to set the limits, to define
- conjecture
- a guess, slight infer
- docile
- easily taught, easy to handle
- doggerel
- comic, trivial, often satrical poetry
- ebullient
- boiling, bubbling with excitment
- fulsome
- insincere
- gesticulate
- to make gestures, especially when speaking
- hone
-
to sharpen, make perfect
- hyperbole
- an exaggeration used as a figure of speach
- insidious
- treacherous; sneaky
- intert
- inactive, sluggish
- intractable
- uncontrollable, stubborn
- inveterate
- habitual; firm in habit; deeply rooted
- mitigate
- to moderate the effect of something
- parsimonious
- stingy
- penchant
- strong taste or liking for something
- placid
- calm; serene
- prodigal
- wastefully extravagant
- promulgate
- to proclaim; to publicly or formally declare something
- reparation
- paying back
- salient
- sticking out, leaping
- sedition
- treason
- supplant
- to displace, do subsitute for another
- surreptitious
- sneaky; secret
- turpitude
- shameful wickedness, corrupt
- vacillate
- to be indecisive; to waver
- vapid
- dull, spiritless