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Brown vocab_1
Vocab words
Question | Answer |
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sentient | power of perception by the senses |
implacable | not apparent |
collude | conspire |
exonerate | clear from guilt |
adumbration | faint image |
obviate | anticipate and prevent |
cupidity | greed,avarice |
cogent | convincing, believable |
disaffection | disloyal- politcal |
anomie | dislocation or alienating society |
fealty | loyalty |
anodyne | relieves pain or stress |
spurious | conterfeit |
inimicable | harmful |
sycophant | fawning parasite |
perjorative | belittling effect |
plangent | resounding loudly |
imprecate | to curse |
equivocate | avoid commitment |
audacious | brave |
laconic | using few words |
solipsisn | theory that only self exists |
torpid | inactive, sluggish |
frivolity | without seriousness |
servile | overly submissive |
refute | to disprove |
presage | to predict, foreshadow, augur |
reconcile | become friendly again |
stymie | to block, hinder |
retrenchment | cutting back expenses |
impunity | exemptment from punishment |
abrograte | abolish officially |
fatuous | silly foolish |
redolent | fragrant |
indelicate | tactless |
egregious | flagrant, glaring in bad way |
axiomatic | self-evident |
exigency | urgency |
histrionic | overly dramatic |
puerile | silly, immature |
inexorable | unyielding |
imperturbable | calm |
coherts | associates |
indolent | lazy |
somnolent | half-asleep |
sordid | filthy |
tacit | understood |
tenuous | thin |
trenchant | keen wit, incisive |
abysmal | bottomless |
abase | humiliate |
galvanize | to stir up, stimulate by shock |
hiesute | hairy |
iconcoclastic | attacking cherished traditions |
imminent | new, impending |
inchoate | elementary |
lascirious | lustful |
offal | garbage, waste |
pecuniary | pertaining to money |
peripatetic | moving, walking about |
misogynist | hater of women |
quell | to quiet |
recidivism | habitual return to crime |
rescind | cancel |
sardonic | sarcastic |
saturinine | gloomy |
scurrilous | obscene, indecent |
simian | monkey-like |
scrupulous | conscientious, extremely thorough |
licentious | perverted, wanted |
unsavory | morally offensive |
truculent | hostile |
remunerate | rewarding |
quintessence | highest embodiment |
recant | repudiate |