Midterm Vocabulary
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- burlesque
- a cheap; vulgar show
- dote
- give a lot of attention to
- rostrum
- platform for public speaking
- materialistic
- preoccupation with material goods
- rile
- to make angry; to irriatate
- affronts
- insults
- undertaker
- one who prepares dead for burial
- convoluted
- intricate
- sadist
- one who delights in cruelty
- denizens
- residents
- advocated
- pleaded or argued in favor of
- impending
- about to occur
- falsetto
- artificially high
- claustrophobic
- inclined to have a fear of small spaces
- raspy
- harsh
- epidemic
- an outbreak of contagious diesease
- lagoon
- shallow pond near or connected to another water body
- guff
- backtalk; sass
- lurched
- staggered; moved suddenly or erraticly
- jibe
- agree
- exhibitionist
- someone who does stuff for attention
- divulge
- make know
- expounded
- gave a detailed statement; explained in detail
- infallible
- incapable of error
- grippe
- influenza; flu
- fraught
- laden
- frock
- dress
- domineering
- overly bossy; tyrannical
- liberate
- to free
- bliss
- complete happiness
- verification
- confirmation
- connoisseur
- expert of a certain topic
- muffler
- a scarf
- gentile
- someone who is not a Jew
- atheist
- one who denies the existence of God
- fedora
- soft felt hat
- qualms
- feelings of doubt; regrets
- invariable
- not changing
- dissentients
- one who disagrees with the majority
- gawk
- to gape or stare stupidly
- ostracized
- excluded from a group by common consent
- ignominious
- dishonorable
- descent
- ancestry
- pacifist
- one opposed to war and violence
- bourgeois
- a middle class person (member of the thrid estate)
- manifestly
- obviously
- blase
- unconcerned; nonchalant
- conscientious
- painstaking; meticulous; thorough
- lithograph
- a print produced by a certain process
- blithely
- light-heartedly
- gamboled
- skipped about in play
- incognito
- w/ ones identity concealed
- sledom
- rarely
- eloquence
- the ablility to speak persuasively
- unscrupulous
- unprincipled
- putrid
- rotten; vile
- premature
- unexpectedly early
- cryptic
- mysterious; puzzling
- knacker
- a buyer of worn-out domestic animals or their carcasses for use esp. as animal food or fertilizer
- griping
- complaining
- crude
- unsophisticated; lacking taste; rude
- procured
- to get possesion of
- rations
- a food allowance for one day; fixed portion
- nonchalant
- indifferent
- confinements
- acts of being restricted to certain boundaries
- propulsion
- the act of moving onward
- disciples
- ones who accepts and assists in spreading the doctrine of another
- immaterial
- unimportant
- implements
- devices used in the performance of a task
- chaff
- grain husks
- ensconced
- settled sunggly and securely
- psychoanalyze
- to examine a person's mind
- capered
- froliced; pranced; leapt
- shirking
- to evade the performance of an obligation
- swanky
- fashionbly elegant
- monotonous
- tediously repetitive; dull
- chisel
- cheat
- indefatigable
- incapable of being tired
- sacrilegeious
- disrespectful to things held sacred
- lavish
- luxurious
- precision
- quality of being perfect
- sordid
- wretched
- cliques
- small exclusive group of people
- sterling
- excellent
- squaw
- NA woman
- impromptu
- spur of the moment
- knoll
- a small round hill
- suave
- pleasing; agreeable; smooth
- enmity
- positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
- irrepressible
- impossible to restrain or control
- scullery
- a small room next to the kitchen
- stridency
- harshness; shrillness
- disinterred
- taken out of the grave
- affable
- civil and courteous; kind and polite
- submissive
- obidient; humble
- compulsory
- mandatory; required
- subside
- die down; sink
- ennui
- boredom
- obsequious
- attentive; polite or obidient; servile
- quarry
- prey; game being hunted
- repast
- meal
- bleak
- bare; desolate; not promising
- vigor
- energy
- typified
- was representative of; was symbolic of
- droll
- amusingly odd
- alternative
- other choice
- amenities
- luxuries; comforts
- vitality
- liveliness
- tangible
- capable of being touched; substantially real; palpable
- debacle
- disaster; failure
- imperative
- absolutely nesscessary 0or required; urgent
- futile
- useless
- discerned
- saw
- deplorable
- lamentable
- chiffonier
- a high narrow chest of drawers