Vocab. List 3

204271495	Antipathy	strong or deep-rooted dislike; aversion
204271496	Apocryphal	of doubtful authorship or authenticity
204271497	Apotheosis	deification; glorification of a person or thing
204271498	Arduous	difficult to do; laborious
204271499	Askance	with a sideways glance; with suspicion, disapproval
204271500	Asyndeton	act of leaving out usual conjunctions between coordinate sentence elements
204271501	Auspicious	of good omen; boding well for future
204271502	Bowdlerize	to remove passages considered offensive from "stuff"
204271503	Calumny	a false, malicious statement meant to hurt another's reputation
204271504	Cupidity	strong desire [esp. for wealth]
204271505	Encomium	a formal expression of high praise; eulogy
204271506	Expatiate	to speak or write in great detail; elaborate or enlarge
204271507	Fatuous	complacently foolish or inane; silly, foolish
204271508	Flaccid	hanging in loose folds or wrinkles; soft, and limp
204271509	Gesticulate	to make or use gestures
204271510	Ineffable	inexpressible, too overwhelming to be expressed or described in words
204271511	Inimical	like an enemy; hostile, unfriendly
204271512	Irascible	easily angered; quick-tempered
204271513	Meticulous	extremely careful about details, finicky
204271514	Obtuse	not sharp or pointed; slow to understand; not producing a sharp impression
204271515	Plethora	the state of being too full; excess
204271516	Polysyndeton	the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy"). It is a stylistic scheme used to slow the rhythm of prose and can add an air of solemnity to a passage.
204271517	Proselytize	to convert to one's religion
204271518	Ribald	characterized by coarse or vulgar joking or mocking [usually about "r"ex]
204271519	Sedulous	working hard and steadily; diligent
204271520	Somnambulist	one who sleepwalks or moves about in a trance like state
204271521	Staid	resisting change; fixed
204271522	Tractable	easily managed, taught, controlled
204271523	Truculent	fierce, cruel, savage; rude, harsh scathing esp. speech or writing
204271524	Unctuous	like oil, soap, grease to touch; characterized by smug smooth pretense of spiritual feeling in seeking to persuade; too suave or oily in speech or manner
204271525	Untenable	that cannot be held, defended or maintained
204271526	Verbose	using too many words, wordy, long-winded
204271527	Vociferous	loud, noisy or vehement in making one's feelings known
204271528	Anfractuous	full of windings and intricate turnings: TORTUOUS
204271529	Ululate	to HOWL, to WAIL
204271530	Pandy	British : to punish (a schoolboy) with a blow on the palm of the hand especially with a ferule
204271531	Dandiprat	A dwarf or small boy; an insignificant or contemptible person.
204271532	Logodaedalus	One who is cunning in words.