Vocab Final Saylor
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- fatuous
- complacently or inanely foolish
- libel
- a tort consisting of false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
- propensity
- a natural inclination
- salient
- having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
- gregarious
- tending to form a group with others of the same kind
- facsimile
- an exact copy or reproduction
- premise
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
- impugn
- attack as false or wrong
- esoteric
- confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
- proliferate
- cause to grow or increase rapidly
- recrimination
- the act of accusing in return; opposing another charge
- recalcitrant
- marked by stubborn resistance to authority
- judicious
- proceeding from good sense or judgment
- plaintive
- mournful, melancholy, sorrowful
- protracted
- prolonged
- forestall
- keep from happening or arising
- lackadaisical
- lacking spirit or liveliness
- flout
- treat with contemptuous disregard
- foible
- a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect
- lucrative
- profitable
- schism
- division, split
- lucid
- easily understood; clear
- veracity
- Truthfulness.
- ostensible
- apparent, professed, pretended
- intrepid
- invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- felicitous
- apt; suitably expressed, well chosen
- expedient
- Contributing to personal advantage.
- incense
- make furious
- gape
- a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open)
- pusillanimous
- cowardly; fainthearted
- fortuitous
- occurring by happy chance
- stipulate
- give a guarantee or promise of
- nepotism
- favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs)
- ubiquitous
- being present everywhere at once
- nuance
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- haughty
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
- poignant
- profoundly moving; touching
- pernicious
- exceedingly harmful
- exigency
- state of urgency
- equitable
- implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all
- moot
- open to argument or debate
- venerable
- profoundly honored
- perjure
- knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury
- entreat
- ask for or request earnestly
- parochial
- relating to or supported by or located in a parish
- tacit
- understood (without actually being expressed); not put into words
- harbinger
- forerunner, omen
- rudiment
- first principal or fundamentals
- exacerbate
- To make more sharp, severe, or virulent.
- fulsome
- unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
- plethora
- extreme excess
- expound
- to elaborate, to explain in great detail
- indigent
- poor enough to need help from others
- urbane
- showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
- probity
- uprightness; honesty; incorruptibility
- reprisal
- a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
- obsequious
- submissive to another person's wishes or ideas for purely self-interested reasons
- officious
- volunteering one's services when they are neither asked for nor needed; meddlesome
- facetious
- playfully humorous
- morass
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- inception
- The beginning.
- ignominy
- a state of dishonor, great personal dishonor or humiliation; shameful or disgraceful action, conduct, or character
- erudite
- having or showing profound knowledge
- pensive
- immersed in deep melancholy thought
- precarious
- dangerously insecure
- peremptory
- putting an end to all debate or action
- equanimity
- Evenness of mind or temper.
- reticent
- reluctant to draw attention to yourself
- tenable
- based on sound reasoning or evidence
- prelude
- something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
- fallacy
- a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
- prerogative
- a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
- inveigh
- protest bitterly or vehemently
- propitiate
- appease, mitigate
- sordid
- foul and run-down and repulsive
- heinous
- shockingly brutal or cruel
- implicit
- implied though not directly expressed