2nd set semester vocab
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- marrow
- noun, occupies the cavities and cancellous part of most bones; the center part
- vivacity
- adj, the quality or state of being vivacious; liveliness
- lurid
- adj, ghastly pale in appearance
- scruple
- noun, a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions. tion
- nutriment
- noun, something that nourishes or promotes growth and repairs the natural wastage or organic life
- misdemeanor
- noun, a crime less serious than a felony
- pathos
- noun, an element in experience or in artisitc representation evoking pity or compassion;The feeling, as of sympathy or pity, so aroused
- nebulous
- adj, relating to, hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
- tempest
- noun, a violent storm
- propagate
- verb, to cause to continue or increase by sexual pr asexual reproduction, to pass along offspring
- vitriol
- noun, a sulfate of any various metals
- quicken
- verb, to make alive: to cause to be enlivened or to make more rapid
- sustenance
- noun, the act of sustaining: something that gives support, endurance, or strength
- vestment
- noun, an outer garment: covering resembling a garment
- wanton
- adj, hard to control
- precocious
- adj, unusually advanced or mature in development
- stimulate
- verb, to stimulate the mind
- perverse
- adj, a turned away from what is right or good:curropt
- plebian
- noun, one of the common people
- proclivity
- noun, an inclination or predisposition toward something : strong inherent inclination toward something; a tendency
- repudiate
- verb, to refuse to accept: not having to do anything with
- stringent
- adj, tight, constricted: marked by rigor,strictness, severity; forcible and strict
- physiognomy
- noun, at the of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance
- rend
- verb, to remove from place by violence : to tear apart by violence
- vagrant
- noun, one who has no established residence and wanders idly form place to place without lawful or visible means of support
- prodigious
- adj, exciting amazement or wonder
- scathing
- adj, bitterly severe
- lassitude
- noun, a condition of weariness or debility; lazyiness, fatigue
- transcend
- verb, to rise above or go beyond the limits
- vigor
- noun, active bodily or mental strength or force
- scintillate
- verb, to emit sparks, to emit quick flashes as if throwing sparks
- usury
- noun, lending of money with an interest charge for its use.
- throng
- noun, a group of people
- venerable
- adj, calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments
- propinquity
- noun, nearness in place or time
- melancholy
- a gloomy state of mind and characterized by depression
- orothdox
- adj, a conforming to establish doctrine esp. in religion
- invariable
- adj, not capable of change, not changing
- providence
- noun, divine guidance or care