english vokab test
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- lilting
- adj, cheerful or lively, pleasant
- peruse
- v. to read, examine scroll
- incognito
- adj, in disguise
- reiterate
- v. to repeat what one has already said
- nascent
- adj, new starting, just born
- nonchalant
- adj. unconcerned, causual, indifferent
- contrition
- n, apology, repentense, asking for forgiveness,
- avaracious
- adj greedy, covetous
- crystalline
- looking lik a crystal, transparen, clear
- incantation
- a word or phrase that is chanted in special ceremonies or religious events
- precept
- n a rule of moral conduct
- coalesce
- to exsist together, grow together sythinthesis
- quandry
- n. state of perplexicity, confusing situation, delema
- pedagogical
- adj, relate to teaching or educating
- surcease
- n. relief consolodation
- droll
- wimsically humorous, comical
- depreciate
- v. to rebuttle, reduce the purchasing valur, goes down in value
- calumnious
- adj, intended to hard ones reputation
- behoove
- to benefit "it would behoove (benefit) you"
- voracious
- greedy in eating, ready to consume large amounts, ravenous
- castellated
- castle like or shaped
- imminent
- adj. about to happen
- amiss
- adj. out of the right or proper order; astray
- cleft
- a separation or gap
- zephyr
- n a soft or getnle breeze
- anithesis
- n, opposition; contrast
- entreat
- v, ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something
- belie
- v, to show/be false, misrepresent
- idiom
- n. a word or phrase that has a different meaning than its literal meaning
- cynical
- adj, misstrusting, sarcastic, questioning ppl's sincerity
- blase
- to become unintrested in something, jaded
- rapt
- adj, indicating or characterized by a state of facination; completly facinated with wat one is seeing or hearing
- encompass
- v. to encircle, form a ring around, surround/include
- opaque
- adj, not transparent, not seethrough
- jocund
- adj, cheerful, mary glad yay yahoo
- qualm
- a hesitation, or resistance to an immoral feeling
- requiem
- n celebration, song ceremnony for a dead person, funeral
- equivocation
- n. use of ambigious speech in order to avoid truth, a statment to avoid the truth
- desultory
- adj lacking consistency, disconnected undirect purpose
- proficient
- adj. well advanced or competent in any art, science or subject, skill
- portentous
- adj predicitng something bad, ominissly significan, or indicitive, suggesting something bad
- impeccable
- adj, flawless without any error
- rueful
- adj, expressing sorrow or regret, sadness
- auspicious
- adj, favorable, promising success
- inexorable
- adj, relentless
- expostulate
- v. to reason earnestly w. someone, to reason not argue
- usurp
- v. to take power illegally, often by force
- dominion
- n. power, authority, ones rule or control
- indiscrimminate
- adj lacking in care or judgment, thoughtless, not usuing careful judgment
- dire
- adj, serioas or urgent
- prodical
- adj. wastful, wrecklessly extravagent lavishly spending
- incarnate
- of flesh
- hone
- v. to sharpen
- inexplicable
- adj, unable to explain, cannot not explained
- provocative
- adj irritating, stimulating, stimulates a response.
- tactual
- adj pertaining to the sense of touch
- felicity
- n. the state of being happy, happyness bliss
- circumvent
- to avoid or go around (the subject)
- umbrage
- n offence, annoyance, resentment "to take umbrage"
- filial
- adj, pertainging to a relationship between family members
- pall
- n. a dark or gloomy atmosphere; dark mood
- dearth
- a big lack of something "a dearth of.."
- pervasive
- v. to become, spread through all parts
- myraid
- n. large in number, an incountable amount of...
- collateral
- n, soemthing pledged as security for payment of a lan
- subversive
- adj, undermining the leader, undergroung
- transfix
- v. to hold motionless w/ amazment awe terror, stun
- pulsate
- v. to expand and contract rythmically, vibrate or quiver
- perdition
- n, loss of soul, udder distruction or ruin
- sullen
- adj. gloomy sad unsociable, withdrawn
- despotic
- adj, ruled by or characteristic of a tyrant
- superfluous
- adj, excessive or unnecesary, not neeeded
- garish
- adj, crudly or tastlessly colorful, tacky excessive
- infuse
- v. to cause to be permeated w/ something, forcing something n2 something else, to introduce
- suave
- adj, charming confident