Vocabulary V
Terms
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- preeminent
- above others; prominent; superior
- unbridled
- unrestrained; violent
- nauseous
- sickening, affecting or affected with extreem disgust
- fulsome
- offensively excessive or insincere; exceeding the bounds of good taste
- a tremor
- a trembling (from disease or weakness); a feeling of uncertainty or anxiety
- functionary
- one charged with performance of a specific function
- prefatory
- located in front; preliminary; relating to or constituting a preface
- uncanny
- seeming to have a supernatural character or origin; eeire; dangerous
- nave
- to main body of a church; a hub of a wheel
- baffle
- ceck or defeat by confusing or puzzling; frustrate the efforts of; check or break the flow of
- exhilaration
- feeling or state of being excited, stimulated, invigorated
- rasping
- grating, scraping, raucous
- proponent
- one who argues in favor of something, one who makes a proposal
- redundant
- exceeding what is necessary or normal; containing something excessive
- desultory
- marked by lack of a definate plan; aimless, without order or rational connection
- meringue
- a delicate mixture of beaten egg whites and powdered sugar, used as an icing or made into small cakes that are quickly browned
- unwitting
- not knowing; unawarel unintentional
- bludgeon
- a short clublike weapon ith one end loaded or thicker than the other hit with heavy impact; ovecome by agressive argumentg
- toady
- one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors (a toadeater)
- mete
- assign my measure; allot