Sadler-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level H 6

42467067	abortive	adj) failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; imperfectly developed; premature [successful]
42467068	bruit	v) to spread news or unsubstantial rumors; broadcast, blazon [conceal]
42467069	constumelious	adj) insolent or rude; insultingly abusive; scurrilous, vituperative [commendatory]
42467070	dictum	n) a short saying; an authoritative statement; maxim, aphorism, axiom
42467071	ensconce	v) to settle comfortably or firmly in position; put/hide in safe place; nestle, lodge [displace]
42467072	iconoclastic	adj) attacking/seeking to overthrow popular beliefs; irreverent, heretical [orthodox]
42467073	in medias res	adv) into the middle of things
42467074	internecine	adj) mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter/bloodshed; murderous, savage [peaceful]
42467075	maladroit	adj) lacking in skill, dexterity, tact, perception, or judgement; inept, awkward, clumsy [dexterous]
42467076	maudlin	adj) excessively or effusively sentimental; mushy, mawkish
42467077	modulate	v) to change or vary in intensity/pitch; to regulate or adjust; adapt, moderate
42467078	portentous	adj) foreshadowing an event to come; self-consciously weighty, pompous; foreboding, ominous, pretentious [propitious, encouraging]
42467079	prescience	knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight, foreknowledge [hindsight]
42467080	quid pro quo	n) something given in exchange or return for something else; swap, trade
42467081	salubrious	adj) conducive to health or well-being; wholesome; beneficial [harmful]
42467082	saturnalian	adj) characterized by rioutous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness; dissipated, debauched, orgiastic [sedate, decorous]
42467083	touchstone	n) a means of testing worth or genuineness; criterion, benchmark
42467084	traumatic	adj) so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage; jolting [soothing]
42467085	vitiate	v) to weaken, debase, or corrupt; impair the quality of; degrade, undermine [fortify]
42467086	waggish	adj) fond of making jokes, characteristic of a joker; whimsical, jocular [dour]