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Eng: Chapter 11
Stadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Level F
Word | Definition |
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abstemious | moderate, sparing |
censurable | deserving blame or correction |
contingent | possible, happening by chance; a representative group forming part of a larger body |
corroborate | to confirm, substantiate |
denizen | a resident; one who frequents a place |
discursive | rambling, roving, nomadic |
disseminate | to scatter |
dowdy | poorly dressed, shabby |
florid | highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy |
foist | to impose by fraud; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty, or coercion |
gauche | awkward, lacking in social graces |
heresy | an opinion different from accepted belief |
inculcate | to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly |
palpable | capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized |
perceptive | having sympathetic insight or understanding |
pernicious | extremely harmful; fatal |
salient | leaping forth; prominent; a projection or bulge, a land form that project upward or outward |
satiate | to satisfy completely; full |
sear | dry and whiter; char or scorch; to harden or making unfeeling |
specious | deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit |