vocab 19-21
Terms
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- deleterious
- having a harmful effect
- avarice
- An extremedesire for wealth
- parsinomy
- unusual or excessive frugality
- wrest
- to obtain by pulling with volent twisting movements
- interlocuter
- someone who converses
- tumult
- a noisy and disorderly movement of people
- colloqium
- an academic seminar on a broad field of study; conference
- loquacious
- very talkative
- edict
- a formal proclamation,command,or decree
- elocution
- the art of public speaking
- inundate
- to overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp
- soliloquy
- a dramatic monologue
- Surfeit
- an excessive amount
- myriad
- constituting a very large, indefinite number
- obviate
- to prevent by antcipating
- jettison
- To discard something unwanted
- insatiable
- incapable of being fully satisfied
- indict
- to accuse of a crime or other offense
- replete
- plentifully supplied
- voluminous
- having great volume or size
- raze
- to tear down or demolish
- despoil
- to deprive of posessions by force
- stulify
- to render useless or inadequate
- effectual
- Producing a desired result
- pinnacle
- the highest point; the summit
- prodigal
- recklessly wasteful, extravagant
- benediction
- an invocation of divine blessing, usually at the end of a religious service; a blessing
- interdict
- to prohibit
- grandiloquence
- pompous or bombastic speech
- surmount
- to overcome; conquer