46730966 | abrogate | to repeal, to set aside, to nullify | |
46730967 | abscond | to leave quickly and secretively | |
46730968 | accolade | award or honor, high praise | |
46730969 | adjure | to command or urge solemnly and earnestly | |
46730970 | aggrieve | to distress, to mistreat | |
46730971 | ameliorate | to make better, to ease or improve | |
46730972 | anathema | something or someone loathed or intensely disliked | |
46730973 | ancillary | subsidiary, subordinate | |
46730974 | antipodal | situated on opposite sides of the earth, or being exactly opposite | |
46730975 | apostasy | abandonment of a loyalty or religion | |
46730976 | assignation | a secret meeting, a tryst, or something assigned | |
46730977 | bandy | to toss back and forth, to exchange, to use in a glib way | |
46730978 | bathos | a transition from the illustrious to the commonplace, overdone pathos, triteness | |
46730979 | bilious | ill-tempered, cranky, angry | |
46730980 | bivouac | temporary encampment | |
46730981 | bumptious | pushy, conceited, noisily self -assertive | |
46730982 | Byzantine | extremely intricate or complicated in structure | |
46730983 | cabal | a secret group of conspirators, a clique | |
46730984 | calumny | slander, deliberate false statements | |
46730985 | cavil | to quibble, to raise trivial objections | |
46730986 | comport | to behave | |
46730987 | concomitant | accompanying, attending, going along with | |
46730988 | conflagration | a large, disastrous fire | |
46730989 | coterie | an intimate group of people with a common interest | |
46730990 | decimate | to kill or destroy a large part of something | |
46730991 | depredate | to prey upon, to plunder with violence if necessary | |
46730992 | determinism | a philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands | |
46730993 | dichotomy | division into two often contradictory parts | |
46730994 | dissipate | to break up, to squander, to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure | |
46730995 | draconian | severe, exceedingly harsh | |
46730996 | effete | exhausted, lost vitality, over -refined | |
46730997 | enervate | to weaken, to sap the strength | |
46730998 | ennui | boredom, listlessness, lack of interest | |
46730999 | ensconce | to settle in snugly, to hide in a secure place | |
46731000 | erudite | scholarly, deeply learned, well read | |
46731001 | feckless | lacking responsibility, ineffective | |
46731002 | feral | wild, like an wild animal, savage | |
46731003 | fetter | to impede, retrain, hamper | |
46731004 | flagellate | to whip, or to punish as if by whipping | |
46731005 | foment | to stir up, to incite | |
46731006 | forswear | retract, renounce or recant | |
46731007 | gestalt | a structure whose parts cannot stand alone | |
46731008 | gesticulate | to gesture, especially when speaking | |
46731009 | gird | to invest with authority, to brace | |
46731010 | histrionic | overly dramatic, theatrical, deliberately affected | |
46731011 | ignominious | disgraceful, dishonorable | |
46731012 | impecunious | without money, penniless | |
46731013 | impugn | to attack the integrity of something | |
46731014 | implacable | not capable of being appeased or mollified | |
46731015 | inchoate | just beginning, not organized or orderly, incomplete | |
46731016 | iniquitous | evil, unjust | |
46731017 | insouciant | nonchalant, lighthearted, unconcerned | |
46731018 | intransigent | uncompromising, stubborn | |
46731019 | inveterate | habitual, deeply rooted or established | |
46731020 | juggernaut | a massive, unstoppable object | |
46731021 | lassitude | a weariness, listlessness, a state of lethargy | |
46731022 | libidinous | lustful, lascivious | |
46731023 | machination | scheming activity for an evil purpose | |
46731024 | malfeasance | an illegal act—-especially by a public official | |
46731025 | martinet | one who adheres strictly to the rules | |
46731026 | mendacious | dishonest, deceitful | |
46731027 | myopia | the quality of nearsightendness, lacking foresight | |
46731028 | naïve | charmingly gullible | |
46731029 | nepotism | showing favoritism to friends or family, as in granting positions in jobs or politics | |
46731030 | nihilism | the belief that there are no values or morals in the universe, that existence is senseless or useless | |
46731031 | noisome | harmful, unwholesome, stinking, putrid | |
46731032 | obdurate | stubborn | |
46731033 | obsequious | fawning, subservient, servile | |
46731034 | onerous | burdensome, oppressive, troublesome | |
46731035 | onus | burden, blame, obligation | |
46731036 | opprobrious | damning, extremely critical, disgraceful | |
46731037 | panacea | a remedy that cures everything | |
46731038 | paradigm | a model or example | |
46731039 | philistine | a smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic objects | |
46731040 | phlegmatic | calm, indifferent, not easily aroused | |
46731041 | plebeian | common, vulgar, low class | |
46731042 | pluralism | a society in which distinct groups function together but retain their identities | |
46731043 | portent | an omen, a sign nor something coming, a foreshadowing | |
46731044 | probity | honesty, uprightness | |
46731045 | prurient | lascivious, have lustful thoughts or desires | |
46731046 | punctilious | meticulously attentive to detail, exacting | |
46731047 | recidivism | the act of repeating an offense | |
46731048 | redoubtable | formidable, fearsome, deserving of respect | |
46731049 | remuneration | payment, recompense | |
46731050 | rife | widespread, abounding, occurring frequently | |
46731051 | ruminate | to muse upon | |
46731052 | sallow | sickly, greenish-yellow | |
46731053 | saturnine | sullen, gloomy, depressed | |
46731054 | sententious | preachy, pompous, using wise sayings excessively | |
46731055 | slatternly | squalid, slovenly, foul, unclean | |
46731056 | somnolent | drowsy, sleepy | |
46731057 | spate | a sudden outburst | |
46731058 | stalwart | unwavering, robust, sturdily built | |
46731059 | tendentious | advancing a point of view, biased | |
46731060 | timorous | fearful, easily frightened | |
46731061 | umbrage | displeasure or resentment | |
46731062 | vagary | a whim, an unpredictable action | |
46731063 | venerate | to honor, to worship, to respect | |
46731064 | veracious | truthful, honest | |
46731065 | vitriolic | corrosive, biting, bitterly scathing | |
46731066 | wont | custom, habit |
Mrs Edwards 2nd semester vocab words
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