Frederick Dougl@$$ Vocabulary
Terms
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- consign
- to banish or set apart in one's mind
- montage
- any combination of disparate elements that forms or is felt to form a unified whole, single image
- sonorous
- rich and full in sound, high-flown
- circumscription
- the act or instance of circumscribing (to enclose within bounds, to limit or confine)
- nuanced
- differing in expression, meaning, or response
- impetus
- moving force, stimulus
- audacious
- extremely bold or daring
- perspicacity
- keen mental perception and discernment
- sanctimony
- pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion
- existential
- stressing the individual's unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices
- chattel
- any article of tangible property
- canard
- a false or baseless, usually derogatory, story, report, or rumor
- assimilationist
- one who wishes to assimilate people from all races and cultures
- bourgeois
- a member of the middle class; one whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability
- manacled
- shackled
- felicitous
- well-suited for the occasion
- succor
- to help or relieve
- anomalous
- deviating for or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule
- sanguine
- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
- calumniator
- one who makes false and malicious statements
- imbruted
- degraded to the level of a brute (a nonhuman creature or beast)
- stultified
- rendered absurdly or wholly futile or ineffectual
- execrable
- utterly detestable, abominable, or abhorrent
- salutary
- promoting or conducive to some beneficial purpose
- pernicious
- causing insidious harm or ruin
- veracity
- truthfulness
- Impertinent
- irrelevant; intrusive or presumptuous
- Intimation
- hint
- Odiousness
- detestableness
- Deference
- respectful submission to the will or judgment of another
- Cudgel
- a short, thick stick used as a weapon
- Evince
- to show clearly; to make evident or manifest
- Privation
- lack of the usual comforts or necessities of life
- Repose
- to put (confidence, trust) in a person or thing
- Ineffable
- unable to be expressed or described in words
- Obdurate
- unmoved by pity, persuasion, or tender feelings; stubbornly resistant to moral influence
- Sundered
- Separated
- Imbibe
- to take or receive into the mind, as knowledge, ideas, or the like
- Execrate
- to detest utterly; to curse or damn
- Impudence
- unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence
- Immutable
- unchangeable
- Debasing
- reducing in rank, dignity, and significance
- Consummate
- complete or perfect; supremely skilled
- Vestige
- a very slight trace or amount of someting
- Odium
- intense hatred or dislike
- Emaciated
- very thin because of lack of nutrition or disease
- Offal
- the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible by human beings
- Depravity
- moral corruption
- Divest
- to strip or deprive
- Prudence
- wisdom
- Unabated
- with undiminished force, power, or vigor
- profligate
- utterly and shamelessly immoral
- dissipation
- a wasting by misuse
- impassable
- unable to be surmounted
- piety
- reverence for God or devout fulfillment or religious obligations
- exhorter
- adviser, earnest cautioner
- sagacity
- acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment
- pernicious
- causing insidious harm or ruin
- forte
- a strong point; that in which one excels
- apostrophe
- addressing someone not present or a personified idea
- quail
- to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; to shrink with fear
- staid
- of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious
- imprudent
- lacking discretion; incautious
- imbue
- to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings or opinions
- impropriety
- inappropriateness; unsuitableness
- redress
- compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury
- exculpate
- to clear from charge of guilt or fault
- commensurate
- corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree
- ardor
- eagerness or enthusiasm; fervor; zeal
- palpable
- readily or plainly seen
- habiliment
- clothing