quizz #11
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- subservient
- abjectly submissive
- similitude
- a duplicate copy
- fetid
- offensively malodorous
- mollify
- make less rigid or softer
- nirvana
- any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- technocracy
- a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
- foray
- an initial try
- physiognomy
- the human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British)
- upstate
- in or toward the northern parts of a state
- captious
- tending to find and call attention to faults
- progenitor
- an ancestor in the direct line
- laconic
- brief and to the point
- amalgamate
- to bring or combine together or with something else
- unilateral
- involving only one part or side
- liturgy
- a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
- clandestine
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- schematic
- diagram of an electrical or mechanical system
- Lothario
- SEDUCER
- retinue
- the group following and attending to some important person
- tenure
- the right to hold property