vocab workshop level 4 units 5-8
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- ennui
- weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom
- salutary
- beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome
- scathing
- bitterly severe, whithering, causing great harm
- demamgogue
- leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims, and promises in order to gain power
- contrive
- to plan with ingenuity, invent; to bring about as the result of a scheme or plan
- transgress
- to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law
- blazon
- to adorn or embellish, to display conspicuously, to publish or proclaim widely
- filch
- to steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
- precept
- a rule of conduct or action
- crass
- coarse, unaffecting, stupid
- immutable
- not subject tio change, constant
- punctilious
- very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety
- infraction
- a breaking of a law or obligation
- restitution
- the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage
- beneficent
- performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
- disabuse
- to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking
- unwieldy
- not easily carried handled, or managed because of size of complexity
- vulnerable
- open to attack, capable of being wounded or demaged; unprotected
- flout
- to mock, treat with contempt
- strailaced
- extremely strict in regard to moral stnadards and conduct; purdish, puritanical
- aspersion
- a demaging or derogatory statement; the act of slandering or defaming
- anomalous
- abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
- autonomy
- self-government; political control
- equitable
- fair, just, embodying prinicples of justice
- austere
- severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxery, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
- surreptitious
- stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud
- grandiose
- grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by popous affection or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
- axiomatic
- self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principal or rule
- inconsequential
- trifling, unimportant
- transmute
- to change from one nature, substance, or form to another
- Pillage
- (v) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; (n) the act of looting; booty
- disconcert
- to confuse; to disturb; the composure of
- cajole
- to coax, persuade through flattery or artiface; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
- Vicarious
- (adj) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one eprson in place of another
- amnesty
- a general pardon for an offense agaisnt a government; in general any act of forgiveness or absolution
- debase
- to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
- insurgent
- one who rebels or rises agaisnt authority; rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority; surging or rushing in or on
- scourge
- to whip severly; a cause of affliction or suffering; a source of severe punishment or criticism
- trnasient
- lasting only a short time, fleeting; one who stays only a short time
- prate
- to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
- fractious
- tending to be troublesome; unruley, querrelsome, contrary; unpredictable
- mitigate
- to make milder, softer, to moderate in force or intensity
- extricate
- to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort
- bizarre
- extremely strange, unusual, or atypical
- reprove
- to find fault with, scold, rebuke
- heinous
- very wicked, offensive, hateful
- fetter
- a chain or shackle placed on the feet (often used in plural); any thing that confines or restrains; to chain or shackle; to render helpless or impotent
- redoubtable
- inspiring fear or awe; illustrius eminent
- desecrate
- to commit sacrilage upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute
- stalwart
- strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; a brave strong person, a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position
- Concoct
- (v) to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
- Soporific
- (adj) tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy; (n) something that induces sleep
- caveat
- a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
- brusque
- abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
- castigate
- to punish severly; to criticize severly
- sinecure
- a position requiring little or no work; an easy job
- vapid
- dull, uniteresting, tiresome; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness or force
- megalomania
- a delision marked by a feeling or power; wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality
- cadaverous
- pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse