midterm vocab 2
Terms
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- approbation
- commendation
- assuage
- alleviate
- coalition
- alliance
- decadence
- corruption
- elicit
- extract
- expostulate
- protest
- hackneyed
- corny
- hiatus
- pause
- innuendo
- insinuation
- intercede
- mediate
- jaded
- worn-out
- lurid
- gory
- meritorious
- worthy
- petulant
- irritable
- perogative
- perk
- provincial
- narrow-minded
- simulate
- pretend
- transcend
- exceed
- umbrage
- irritation
- unctuous
- excessively smooth
- ameliorate
- amend
- aplomb
- poise
- bombastic
- pompous
- callow
- immature
- drivel
- saliva
- epitome
- summary
- exhort
- to urge strongly
- ex officio
- by virtue of holding a certain office
- infringe
- violate
- ingratiate
- cozy up to
- interloper
- trespasser
- intrinsic
- organic
- inveigh
- to make a violent attack in words
- lassitude
- weariness of body or mind
- millennium
- a period of 1000 years
- occult
- supernatural
- permeate
- penetrate
- precipitate
- rain; provoke
- stringent
- stern
- surmise
- infer
- abominate
- loathe
- acculturation
- adaptation
- adventitious
- incidental
- ascribe
- attribute
- circuitous
- roundabout
- commiserate
- empathize
- enjoin
- command
- expedite
- accelerate
- expiate
- redeem
- ferment
- commotion
- inadvertent
- accidental
- nominal
- name only
- noncommittal
- not decisive
- peculate
- to steal something
- proclivity
- tendency
- sangfroid
- coolness
- seditious
- rebellious
- tenuous
- thin
- vitriolic
- sarcastic
- wheedle
- sweet talk
- affable
- courteous
- aggrandize
- to build up or intensify
- amorphous
- shapeless
- aura
- ambience
- contraband
- smuggled goods
- erudite
- scholarly
- gossamer
- delicate
- infer
- speculate
- inscrutable
- inpenetrable
- insular
- narrow-minded
- irrevocable
- irreversible
- propensity
- natural inclination
- querulous
- irritable
- remonstrate
- reason against
- repudiate
- disown
- resiliant
- springy
- reverberate
- rumble
- scurrilous
- obscene
- sedulous
- persistent
- sleazy
- cheap
- amnesty
- general pardon
- autonomy
- self-government
- axiomatic
- taken for granted
- blazon
- embellish
- caveat
- warning
- equitable
- right
- extricate
- extract
- flout
- mock
- filch
- steal
- fractious
- unruly
- precept
- principle
- salutary
- beneficial
- scathing
- bitterly sever
- scourge
- punish severly
- sepulchral
- funeral
- soporfic
- narcotic
- straitlaced
- overly strict
- transient
- lasting a short time
- unwieldy
- combersome
- vapid
- lifeless
- anomalous
- abnormal
- aspersion
- innuendo
- bizzare
- outlandish
- brusque
- abrupt
- cajole
- sweet talk
- castigate
- punish
- contrive
- think up
- demagogue
- rabble-rouser
- disabuse
- set straight
- ennui
- weariness
- fetter
- a chain or shackle
- heinous
- very wicked
- immutable
- unchangable
- insurent
- rebellious
- megalomania
- delusion by a feeling of power
- sinecure
- bull shit job
- surreptitious
- secret
- transgress
- overstep
- transmute
- transform
- vicarious
- second hand