Vocab 2 ()
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- Indecorous
- adj. violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety/behavior; unseemly (antonym n=decorum)
- Countenance
- n. appearance--the look/expression on the face; face; visage
- Uncouthness
- n. awkwardness, clumsiness, unmannered behavior
- Remonstrate
- v. to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval
- Magnanimous
- adj. high-minded, noble, generosity in forgiveness, free from petty vindicitiveness
- Circumambulate
- v): to walk/wander around
- Infallible
- (adj): incapable of error/unable to be wrong; dependable/reliable
- Insular
- adj. of or like an island or islanders; narrow-minded; illiberal
- Obstreperous
- adj. unruly; noisy; clamorous; boisterous
- Heathen
- n/adj. irreligious, uncultured, uncivilized, pagan
- Expostulation
- n. earnest and kindly protest
- Providence
- (n): the benevolent guidance of God/nature
- Portentous
- (adj): ominously significant or indicative (a portentous defeat); marvelous, amazing, prodigious
- Conceit
- (n): 1) a fancy; a fanciful notion; a whim; 2) something conceived in the mind—a thought;
- Extant
- (adj): in existence; not destroyed or lost
- Sublimity
- (n): the state or quality of being supreme or outstanding
- Ruminate
- (v): to meditate on; to ponder; to chew again or over and over