Vocab
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- adept
- Thoroughly skilled; an expert
- aspire
- to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend
- bleak
- bare, dreary, dismal
- chide
- to blame; scold
- despicable
- worthy of scorn, contemptible
- diminutive
- small, smaller than most others of the same type
- emancipate
- to free from slavery; to release or liberate
- erroneous
- incorrect, containing mistakes
- exploit
- to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit; a feat, deed
- extemporaneous
- made or delivered on the spur of the moment
- impair
- to make imperfect, damage, harm
- invincible
- not able to be defeated, unbeatable
- languid
- drooping without energy, sluggish
- mire
- mud, wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; to get stuck
- obtrusive
- forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out
- preamble
- an introduction to a speech or piece of writing
- render
- to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract
- rugged
- rough, irregular; severe, stern; strong; stormy
- skeptical
- inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true
- slipshod
- untidy in dress, personal habits, ect; careless, sloppy
- brevity
- shortness
- comport
- to conduct or bear oneself, behave; to be in agreement
- concise
- epressing much in few words
- demure
- sober or serious in manner, modest
- depreciation
- a lessing in value; a belittling
- deteriorate
- to lower in quality or value; to wear away
- divulge
- to tell, reveal; to make public
- enlightened
- free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding
- forestall
- to prevent by acting first
- garble
- to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible
- proponent
- one who puts forward a proposal; one who supports a cause or belief
- quaver
- to shake, tremble; to trill
- recoil
- to spring back, shrink; the act of springing back
- recoup
- to make up for, regain
- reek
- an unpleasant smell; to give off unpleasant smells; to give a strong impression
- relentless
- unyielding, harsh, without pity
- rivulet
- a small stream
- squander
- to spend foolishly, waste
- staccato
- detached or disconnected in sound or style
- statute
- a law
- appreciable
- sufficient to be noticed or measured
- autocratic
- absolute in power or authority
- blanch
- to remove the color from; to make or turn pale; to parboil
- blasphemy
- an act, utterance, or writing showing contempt for something sacred
- brawny
- strong, muscular
- concerted
- planned or performed in cooperation with others
- contend
- to fight, struggle; to compete; to argue
- humane
- kind, merciful
- illustrious
- very famous, distinguished
- intolerable
- unbearable
- irreverent
- disrespectful
- laborious
- not easy, requiring hard work, hardworking
- lithe
- bending easily, limber
- maltreat
- to abuse, use roughly or crudely
- ponder
- to consider carefully, reflect on
- subversive
- intended to undermine or overthrow; one who advocates or attempts to undermine a political system
- synthetic
- made or put together by people; something artificial
- temperate
- mild, moderate
- venomous
- poisonous; spiteful, mean
- wily
- sly, shrewd, cunning