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Chapter 37-45
Challenging Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| beholden | indebted |
| desultory | rambling |
| dissimulate | to hide one's feelings |
| exalt | to praise |
| incontrovertible | certain |
| insouciant | carefree |
| latent | present but hidden |
| mire | to involve in difficulties |
| predicate | to assert |
| pusillanimous | fearful |
| subliminal | unaware |
| anent | regarding |
| beleaguer | to annoy |
| doughty | courageous |
| engender | to promote |
| incorrigible | bad beyond correction |
| noisome | harmful |
| pert | bold |
| rout | overwhelming defeat |
| subterfuge | trickery |
| whet | to stimulate |
| assiduity | without water |
| chimerical | imaginary |
| consolidate | to combine |
| cursory | hasty |
| execrate | to curse |
| extirpate | to destroy |
| foist | to pass off inferior merchandise |
| glib | fluent |
| knuckle | to yield |
| predispose | to make susceptible |
| skinflint | stingy (reluctant to give/spend) person |
| suborn | to hire for an unlawful act |
| succor | assistance |
| usury | excessive amount of money charged as interest |
| assimilate | to absorb |
| avid | enthusiastic |
| exhort | to warn |
| extradite | to give up a prisoner to another authority |
| folderol | nonsense |
| incumbent | resting |
| insuperable | unconquerable |
| miscegenation | mixture of races through marriage |
| non sequitur | something that does not logically follow |
| ostentatious | boastful |
| polemic | argument |
| preeminent | standing out |
| supercilious | proud |
| wily | tricky |
| axiom | true statement |
| bungle | to do things clumsily |
| enmity | hatred |
| exigent | urgent |
| extrapolate | to estimate |
| hector | to bully |
| incur | consequence |
| levity | lack of seriousness |
| salacious | obscene |
| skulduggery | trickery |
| subsidiary | supplementary |
| veneer | an outward show that misrepresents |
| anneal | to toughen |
| choleric | easily angered |
| consternation | panic |
| cynosure | center of attention |
| exonerate | to free from blame |
| incursion | an invasion |
| insurrection | rebellion |
| perverse | cranky |
| quail | to lose courage |
| quandary | a dilemma |
| relegate | to banish |
| subterranean | underground |
| affectation | insincerity |
| banal | common |
| drivel | childish nonsense |
| foray | a sudden attack |
| magnate | important person in any field |
| ponderous | heavy; burdensome |
| querulous | complaining |
| subversive | tending to weaken |
| burlesque | an action that treats a serious subject with ridicule |
| cipher | person or thing of no value |
| cognate | relevant/related |
| debonair | pleasant |
| dour | gloomy |
| esconce | to conceal |
| gird | to encircle |
| hegira | escape |
| slake | to lessen by satisfying |
| withal | nevertheless |
| anon | soon |
| bedlam | a noisy uproar |
| beset | to attack |
| dross | waste matter |
| indigent | extremely poor |
| maladroit | unskillful |
| nonplus | to confuse |
| portentous | warning |
| quasi | resembling |
| salient | significant |
| supplicate | to beg |
| wizened | withered |
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