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Word List Day 20
Word | Definition |
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elicit | draw out |
serration | having a toothed edge |
dainty | pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please |
caustic | biting sarcastic |
highbrow | (person) with superior tastes |
odious | repulsive; hateful |
abjure | promise or swear to give up |
chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
tyro | a beginner |
inane | silly; senseless |
dilate | speak comprehensively become wider large |
deprave | make morally bad;corrupt |
denigrate | blacken; belittle; sully; defame |
duplicity | deliberate deception |
protracted | prolonged |
taut | tightly stretched |
turbid | muddy having the sediment stirred up |
fledgling | an inexperienced person. |
punctilious | Meticulous |
bellicose | inclined to fighting |
ignominious | shameful; dishonorable; undignified; disgraceful |
interim | as an installment |
avid | eager; greedy |
florid | very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face) |
malign | to speak harmful untruths about someone |
inundate | flood cover by overflowing |
attenuate | make thin; weaken; enervate |
consume | get to the end of |
phlegmatic | calm; sluggish; temperament; unemotional |
sanctimony | self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety |
inimical | harmful or unfriendly |
prevaricate | to equivocate to stray from the truth |
ingenuous | naive; young; artless; frank; honest; sincere |
veracity | truth |
barren | not good enough; unable to have young ones without value |