vocab 8-13
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- To lessen in violence or intensity
- Abate
- Comformity to accepted standards of conduct; proper behavior
- decorum
- to hate strongly
- abhor
- To distibute; to give out sparingly
- dole
- the whole range or extent
- gamut
- One who is outgoing; one who is energized
- extrovert
- Ammusing in an odd or whimiscal way
- droll
- Intentional deceit in speech or conduct
- duplicity
- A crude dummy or image representing a hated person or group
- effigy
- Stern severe; plain
- austere
- To imitate
- emulate
- Dry and withered
- sere
- To increase the value or beauty of something
- enhance
- Feeling regret for having committed some wrongdoing
- contrite
- Noble; generous in forgiving; free from petting feelings or acts
- magnanimous
- To pronounce clearly and distinctly
- enunciate
- To work with another toward a goal
- collaborate
- To confine; to retain in legal custody
- impound
- Faultless; without sin or blemish
- impeccable
- To summon forth
- evoke
- Without sense or meaning, silly
- inane
- Exaggeratedly or insincerely polite
- unctuous
- One who chooses to live outside of or renounce his or her native country
- expatriate
- Unkempt
- frowzy
- Hatefully or shockingly evil
- heinous
- To explain in detail; to clarify
- expound
- To persuade with false promises and flattery
- cajole
- not easily understood; hard to fathom
- inscrutable
- To refuse stubbornly or abruptly; to stop short and refuse to go on
- balk
- Ill-natured, bitter hostility
- acrimony
- stern and ill-humored
- dour
- To rejoice to feel tiumphant
- exult
- Having unlimited knowledge
- ominiscent
- Reasonable; capable of being carried out
- feasible
- a complete, rediculous failure
- fiasco
- The work one is especially suited for; ones ocupation
- metier
- To rise and fall; to vary irregularly
- fluctuate
- To annoy or harass
- harry
- Disguised; pretending not to be oneself
- incognito
- Lack of energy
- lethargy
- a letter
- epistle
- enthusiastic; extremely interested
- avid
- an irritating and persistent person
- gadifly
- absence of vanity; humbleness
- humility
- exhibiting sorrow or pain
- dolorous
- a huge or extraordinary size and power
- arduous
- friendly; agreeable;easy to talk to
- affable
- pompous or high-flown in speech
- grandlioquent
- having to do with farms, farmers, or the use of land
- agraian
- a facial expression or fear,disapproval, or pain
- grimace
- a long, strongly expressed speech or lecture
- harangue
- arousing fear or awe
- formidable
- a flatterer, one who fawns on othere in order to gain favor
- sycophant
- clearly and openly stated; leaving nothing to the imagination
- explicit
- a heated argument
- altercation
- a dictionary; a specialized vocabulary
- lexicon
- a color
- hue
- permission; suppor
- sanction
- extreme exaggeration for effect and not meant to be taken literally
- hyperbole
- threatening forboding evil
- ominous
- rude boldness; nerve
- audacity
- to demonstrate clearly; to prove
- evince
- unable to be appeased or pacified
- implacable
- to urge on with stirring words
- exhort
- to put into prison; to confine
- incarcerate
- sharp; keen; cutting straight to the heart of the matter
- incisive
- practical; providing an immediate advantage
- expedient
- having to do with the subject at hand; relevant
- pertinent
- unable to act or move; inactive; sluggish
- inert
- toget around; to bypass
- circumvent
- secret
- cladestine
- to find not guilty of a fault or crime
- aquit
- to express strong disapproval of
- deprecate
- lawyer
- barrister
- excessive prais or admiration
- adulation
- having to do with the kitchen or cooking
- culinatry
- indecent; humorously obscene
- bawdy
- to punish everly
- chastise
- joking, humorous
- jocose
- a very lage number
- myriad
- present, but not active; hidden
- latent
- destructive, deadly
- pernicious
- thrifty economical in money matters
- frugal