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TGD vocabb
The God Delusion Vocab II
Question | Answer |
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emasculated | To deprive strength or vigor; weaken; effeminate |
provenance | place of origin; derivation |
codify | to arrange systematically |
fatuous | foolish or inane esp. in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly |
formidable | arousing apprehension, fear, dread, or alarm; inspiring admiration, awe or wonder; difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat. |
truculent | expressing bitter opposition; pugnacious; scathing; aggressively hostile |
veridical | veracious; coinciding with future events or apparently unknowable present realities |
trepidation | a state of alarm or dread; apprehension; trembling or quivering movement |
pithy | brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; terse; full of vigor or meaning |
vitiate | to reduce the value or impair the quality of; to corrupt morally; to make ineffective |
quixotic | extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; idealistic w/o regard to practicality; capricous; impulsive |
guise | general external appearance; semblance |
spurious | not genuine, authentic, or true; false |
masquerade | facad; pretense; false outward show |
infelicity | awkwardness, inaptness, or inappropriateness; as of |
cadence | Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory; A falling inflection of the voice, as at the end of a sentence. |