English vocab 7-13
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- Impassive
- showing no feeling or emotion
- Inauspicious
- unfavorable or unlucky
- Incontrovertible
- unquestionable beyond dispute
- Implicit
- implied or understood though unexpressed
- incisive
- sharp, keen, penetrating
- inclulcate
- to impress on the mid by repetition
- imperious
- overbearing arrogant
- ivective
- abusive language
- irresolute
- unable to make up ones mind
- ignoble
- mean, low
- impungn
- to attack as false, to call into question
- intemperate
- lacking self control, immoderate
- inconsequential
- unimportant, trifling
- infraction
- a breaking of a law or obligation
- austere
- severe or stern in manner
- connisseur
- an expert , one who is able to pass critical judgment
- collate
- to compare critically in order to note differences similarities
- carousal
- merrymaking, noisy revelry
- cupidity
- an egar desire for something
- contigous
- touvhing , side by sid e
- caricature
- a representation in which the subjects chaaractristic features are deliberaty exagerated
- corroborate
- to confirl, make more certain bolster substantiate verify
- contigent
- likely but not certain to happen possible dependant on incertain events or conditions
- censurable
- deserving blame or correction
- covert
- hidden disguised secret
- cupapble
- deserving blame worthy of condemination
- corpulent
- fat, having a large, bulky body
- consternation
- dismay confusion
- crass
- coarse, unfeeling, stupid
- concort
- to prepare by combinning ingreddents
- cadaverous
- pale gaunt resembling a corpse
- beneficent
- performing acts of kindness or charity
- debase
- to lower character
- desecrate
- to commit sacrilege upon, to contaminate, to pollut
- disconcert
- to confuse to disturb the composure of
- disavow
- to deny responsibility for or connection with
- dispassionate
- impartial calm free from emtion
- dissension
- disagreemwnt sharp diffrence of opinion
- dissipate
- to cause to disapear to scatter dispel
- Dilatory
- tending to delay or procrastinate
- debonair
- pleasant courteous, lighthearted smooth and polish in manner
- dun
-
dark dull
to demand insistently especially in payment
a creditor - Denizen
- an inhabitant resident one who frequents a place
- discursive
- passing aimlessly from one place pr subject to another rambling
- disseminate
- to scatter or spread widely
- dowdy
- poorly dressed shabby lacking smartness and good taste
- deleterious
- harmful injurious
- disconsolate
- deeply unhappy
- grandoise
- absurdly exagerated grand in an impressive or stately way, marked by pomous affectation or graneur
- pillage
- to tob of goods by open force
- prate
- to talk a great deal on a foolisj or aimless fashion
- punctilious
- very careful and exact
- perfidy
- treahery , faithless
- pretentious
- done for show
- penury
- extreme poverty barreness
- procrastinate
- to delay
- provacative
- arousing desire, annoying
- palpable
- capable of being toched or felt
- perceptive
- having sympathetic insight
- pernicious
- extremly harmful / fatal
- paraphrase
- to restate in other words
- paragon
- a model of excellence or perfection
- politic
- prudent shrewdly conceived and developed
- prosaic
- dull lacking in distinction and originality
- prolific
- abudantly productive
- redoubtable
- inspirinf fear or awe
- reprove
- to find fault with scold
- restitution
- the act of restoring
- relegate
- to place in a lower position
- resuscitate
- to revive bring back
- recondite
- exceeding ordinary knowledge and understanding
- reprobate
- scoundrel a depreaved vicious un princupled person
- redundant
- extra excess, repetive lush
- rejoinder
- a reply to a reply
- mitigate
- to make milder or softer to moderate in force or intensity
- vunerable
- open to attack
- gauntlet
- an armored or protective glove a challenge , or ordeal
- hypothetical
- based on an assumption or guess/ used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation
- odium
- hatred, contempt , disgrace or infamy resulting gtom hateful conduct
- stalwart
- strong sturdy brave
- squeamish
- inclined to nausea , easily shocked or upset
- subservient
- subordinate in capacity or role submissively obedient serving to promote some end
- susceptible
- open to easily influenced lacking resistance
- slovenly
- untidy dirty careless
- supposition
- something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence
- sedentary
- characterized bu or calling for continued sitting
- salient
- leaping or jumping
- satiate
- to satisfy completly
- sear
- to make or become dry
- specious
- deceptive
- sanctimonous
- making a show of virtue or righteousness
- scintillating
- sparkling twinkling exceptionaly brilliant
- opportune
- sutible or convienient for a particular purpose
- nonplussed
- puzzled , at a loss
- acrimonious
- stinging bitter in temper or tone
- abate
- to make less in amount degree to subside become less to nulify
- adulation
- praise or flattery that is excessive
- anathema
- an object of intense dislike a curse or strong denunciation
- astute
- shrewd crafty showing pratical wisdom
- avarice
- a greedy desire , particulary for wealth
- accrue
- to grow or accumulate overtiem to happen as a natural result
- annotation
- a critical or explanatory note or comment especially for a literary work
- absolve
- to clear from blame responsibility or guilt
- abet
- to encourage assit aid support
- aver
- to affirm declare confidently
- bovine
- resembling a cow
- expurgate
- to remove objectionable passages or words from written tense to cleasne purify
- culpapble
- deserving blame worthy of condemnation
- egregious
- conspicuous standing out from the mass
- equivocate
- to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation to be deliberately vague or ambigous
- evanescent
- vanishing soon passing away light airy
- nebulous
- cloudlike resembling a cloud
- efficacious
- effective prducing results
- equanimity
- calmness composure refusal to panic
- fortuitous
- accidental occurring by happy chance
- gist
- the essential part main point or essence
- motley
- showing great variety composed of diffrent elements or many colors
- munificent
- extremely generous lavish
- heresy
- an opinion diffrent from accepted belif the denual of an idea that is generally held sacred
- foist
- to impose by fraud to pass off as worthy or genuine to bring about bu stealthh dishonesty or coercion
- florid
- highly colored reddis excessibly ornate showy
- enhance
- to raise to a higher degree
- enthrall
- to captivate charm hold spellbound
- extenuate
- to lessen the seriousness or magnituse or an offense by making partial
- ostentatious
- showy markd by conspicuous or pretentious display
- winesome
- charming attractive pleasing
- herculean
- relating to hercules
- grisly
- frightful horrible
- forment
- to premote trouble
- torpid
- inactive sluggish dull
- novice
- one who is just a beginer at sonmeactivity requiring skill and eperience