Lesson 18-21
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- indict
- to accuse of a crime or other offense; charge; to make formal accusation against by the findings of a grand jury; to attack or condemn
- surfeit
- an excessive amount; overindulgence in food or drink; to feed or supply to fullness or excess; satiate
- deleterious
- having a harmful effect; injurious
- dour
- marked by stubborn sternness or harshness; forbidding; silently ill-huimored; glum
- obviate
- to prevent by anticipation; make unnecessary;
- inundate
- to overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp; to cover with water, esp. flood water; overflow
- benediction
- an invocation of divine blessing, usu. at the end of a religious service; a blessing; expression of good wishes
- avarice
- an extreme desire for wealth; greed
- prodigal
- recklessly wasteful; extravagent; lavish; profuse in giving; exceedingly abdundant
- parsimony
- unusual or excessive frugality; stinginess
- edict
- a formal proclamtion, command, or decree; a decree or procalamation issued by an authority and having the force of law
- voluminous
- havaing great volume, fullness, size or number; of unusuale length in speech or writing; filling or capable of filling volumes.
- tumult
- a disorderly, noisy movement of people; noise and commotion, as of a crowd; agitation of the mind or emotions
- irresolute
- undecided or uncertain as to action or proecdure; vaccilating
- raze
- to tear down or demolish; level to the ground; to scrape or shave off
- replete
- plentifully supplied; abounding; filled to satisfaction; gorged
- colloquium
- an academic seminar on a broad field of study, usu, led by different lecturer at each meeting; conferencel an informal meeting for the exchange of views
- interlocutor
- someone who takes part in a conversation
- contumacy
- obstinate or contemptuous resistance to authority; stubborn rebelliousness; insubordination
- obdurate
- not giving in to persuasion; inflexible; hardened against feeling; hardhearted; hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness
- pertinacity
- the quality or state of holding firmly to a purpose, belief, or opinion; stubborn persistence
- soliloquy
- a literary or dramatic form of disourse in which a character reveals ihis or her thoughts in the form of a monologue without addressing a listener; the act of speaking to oneself
- audacious
- fearlessly daring; bold; unrestrained by what is considered acceptable or appropriate; insolent
- pinnacle
- the highest point; summit; acme; a tall, pointed formation, such as a mountain peak; a small turret or spire on a roof or buttress
- myriad
- constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable; comprise of numerous diverse elements or facets; a vast number
- interdict
- to prohibit or forbid; place under a legal or ecclesiastical sanction
- grandiloquence
- pompous or bombastic speech or expression
- loquacious
- very talkative; garrulous
- elocution
- the art of public speaking, emphasizing gesture, vocal production and delivery; style or manner, esp. of public speaking
- effectual
- producing or sufficientto produce a desired result; fully adequate
- despoil
- to deprive of possessions or property by force; plunder; rob
- wrest
- to obtain by or as by pulling with violent twisting movements; to usurp forecully; to extract by force, guile, or persistent effort; wring
- obsequious
- excessively eager to serve, obey or ingratiate oneself; fawning
- surmount
- to overcome(an obstacle), conquerl to ascend to the thte top; climb; to place something above; top
- stultify
- to render useless or inadequate; cripplle; to cause to appear stupid, incosistent, or ridiculous
- insatiable
- incapable of being fully satisfied
- stoic
- seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; member of Greek school of philosophy, founded by Zeno ...accept all occurences as the unaboidable result of fate
- eclat
- great acclamation or applause; great brillinace, as of performance or achievement; conspicuous success
- jettison
- to discard as unwanted or burdensome; to cast off or overboard
- indefatigable
- incapable of being fatigued; tireless