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Academic VocabularyX
Term | Definition |
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Irascible (adj) | Irritable; touchy; choleric |
Itinerant (adj) | Traveling from place place to place |
Jocular (adj) | Playful; witty |
Jubilation (n) | Great joy; exultation |
Juxtapose (vt) | Place side by side |
Laconic (adj) | Terse; concise; pitchy |
Lampoon (vt) | Ridicule; satirize harshly |
Lascivious (adj) | Lewd; lustful; wanton |
Latent (adj) | Potential; dormant; hidden |
Lethargy (n) | Sluggishness; stupor; lassitude |
Levity (n) | Frivolity; gaiety; buoyancy |
Libidinous (adj) | Lustful; licentious; lewd |
Limpid (adj) | Clear; transparent |
Lithe (adj) | Flexible; pliant; limber |
Loquacious (adj) | Talkative; garulous |
Lugubrious (adj) | Doleful; mournful; dismal |
Machiavellian (adj) | Cunning; deceitful; cruel |
Malaise (n) | Vague sense of debility or illness |
Malediction (n) | Curse; denunciation |
Malevolent (adj) | Malicious; vicious; spiteful |