Jacob's Vocabular-7
Week 7
Terms
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- jaunty
- (adj) lively, easy, and carefree in manner; smart or trim in appearance
- turncoat
- (N) a person who switches to an opposing side or party
- convey
- (V) to transport; to transmit; to communicate, make known; to transfer ownership or title to
- parry
- (V) to ward off, fend off, deflect, evade, avoid; (N) a defensive movement in fencing and other sports
- exotic
- (adj) foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual
- attribute
- (N) a quality of characteristic beglonging to or associated with someone or something. (V) to assign to, credit with; to regard as caused by or resulting from
- waver
- (V) to move to and fro, become unsteady; to show lack of firmness or decision
- doctrine
- (N) a belief, principle, or teaching; a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles
- belittle
- (V) to make something appear smaller than it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance of value.
- acme
- (N) the highest point (of something)
- juncture
- (N) a joining together; the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time
- predatory
- (adj) preying on, plundering, or piratical
- stance
- (N) a way of holding the body; an attitude or position on an issue
- unassuming
- (adj) not putting on airs, unpretentious; modest
- excise
- (V) to remove by cutting; (N) an indirect tax on the manufacture, sale, or distribution of a commodity or service
- ravage
- (V) to destroy, lay waste, ruin; (N) ruinous damage, destruction
- tawdry
- (adj.) showy and flashy but lacking in good taste
- haggard
- (adj) thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild-looking
- menial
- (adj) lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity; (N) a person who does the humble and unpleasant tasks
- wallow
- (V) to roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance; (n) a wet, muddy, or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath; a state of moral or physical collapse