VOC R3
Terms
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- intrepid
- fearless; bold
- precipice
- a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place
- embonpoint
- plumpness of person
- potboiler
- a usually inferior literary or artistic work, produced quickly for the purpose of making money
- evince
- to show in a clear manner
- plangent
- beating with a loud or deep sound; also, expressing sadness
- antiquarian
- one who collects, studies, or deals in antiquities
- turpitude
- baseness; depravity
- yen
- a strong desire or inclination
- propitiate
- to appease; to conciliate
- mendacious
- untruthful; also, untrue
- varicolored
- having a variety of colors
- roue
- a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure
- panjandrum
- an important or self-important official
- maudlin
- excessively sentimental
- fungible
- interchangeable
- noisome
- offensive or disgusting; also, harmful; unwholesome
- impassible
- incapable of suffering; also, unfeeling or not showing feeling
- recreant
- cowardly; also, unfaithful or disloyal
- solecism
- a nonstandard usage or grammatical construction
- salient
- noticeable; also, projecting; also, leaping
- pronunciamento
- a proclamation; a pronouncement
- cozen
- to deceive or obtain by deceit
- ne plus ultra
- the acme; also, the most profound degree
- panacea
- a cure-all
- abrogate
- to annul; to do away with
- ignoble
- not noble
- factotum
- a person employed to do all kinds of work
- commination
- a denunciation
- doff
- to take off; to remove; also, to rid oneself of