Shelnut Vocabulary 12
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Terms
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- Torso
- a human trunk, upper body
- Validate
- to confirm, verify
- Vertigo
- dizziness
- Vilify
- to use abusive or slanderous language
- Torpor
- a state of being inactive, laziness, inaction
- Usurp
- to seize illegally
- Visceral
- deeply felt; deep-seated; profound
- Wanton
- immoral
- Unassuming
- modest
- Wan
- sickly pale; faint feeble, or weak in a way suggestive a sickly condition, great weariness, or sadness
- Truculent
- bellicose, savage, barbaric
- Vignette
- a brief description, word picture
- Unctuous
- overly suave or oily in speech or manner
- Tyrannicide
- the killing of a tyrant, a cruel ruler
- Tractable
- easily controlled, obedient
- Wrest
- to grab away with force
- Vociferous
- producing a loud outcry; talkative
- Venerate
- to revere or worship
- Umbrage
- an offense
- Watershed
- a crucial dividing point
- Wharf
- a structure built over water
- Winsome
- full of a winning quality; fetching, luring
- Unethical
- having bad morals, lack of ethics
- Transgress
- to break the law; to sin
- Thwart
- to frustrate, impede; to get in the way of
- Vie
- to contend, compete
- Vituperate
- to scold or berate with abuse
- Vituperative
- abusive in speech; excessively scolding
- Venerable
- worthy of respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance
- Wallow
- to engage in mentally; to roll around in
- Unheralded
- unnoticed, unannounced
- Torrid
- hot in weather or emotions; passionate
- Voluminous
- large
- Tome
- a large book
- Thespian
- pertaining to acting on a stage
- Travail
- toil, very hard work, difficulties in life
- Vendetta
- a feud or nemesis; revenge
- Xenophobia
- fear of strangers
- Unilateral
- one-sided
- Viviparous
- bearing live young (instead of by laying eggs)
- Waive
- to pardon
- Virtuoso
- a person with great artistic skill
- Wane
- to decrease in power or size; dwindle; decline; sink; ebb
- Wary
- cautious
- Tenuous
- thin, slender; rare; insignificant; flimsy
- Viable
- workable
- Ubiquitous
- omnipresent; existing, or seeming to exist, everywhere at once
- Tenet
- a shared idea or belief of a group
- Utopia
- the perfect society
- Unwieldy
- hard to handle because of size or weight; unmanageable; bulky; cumbersome
- Titular
- in title or name only
- Trenchant
- keen, incisive, forceful
- Veracity
- truthfulness, honesty
- Titanic
- enormous
- Usury
- the act of loan sharking (charging too much interest on a loan)
- Viscous
- thick and sticky
- Unsound
- not well-formed or built, unsafe
- Vacillation
- a change or wavering in opinion
- Tutelage
- guardianship
- Unanimous
- in complete agreement
- Vindicate
- to clear the name, prove innocent
- Terrestrial
- having to do with earth
- Vanguard
- leading persons or position
- Urbane
- very sophisticated, cosmopolitan, of the city
- Unwitting
- unaware
- Unguent
- an ointment, salve for healing
- Wry
- twisted with sarcasm
- Titillate
- to excite pleasurably; to tease
- Unseemly
- not proper or decent; unattractive
- Vapid
- lifeless, flat, uninteresting, stupid
- Unbridled
- unrestrained, uncontrolled, wild
- Vestige
- a trace of something that no longer exists; something remaining