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Final Vocab Review
Mrs. Mitchams English 3 class.... Lessons 7-9 and 10-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| squeamish | inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessivey fastidious or refined |
| resuscitate | to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence |
| restitution | the act of restoring someone or somethin to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage |
| reprove | to find fault with, scold, rebuke |
| redundant | extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; profuse, lush |
| redoubtable | inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent |
| recondite | exceeding ordinary knowledge and understanding |
| recapitulate | to review a series of facts, to sum up |
| punctillious | very careful and exact, attentive to fine pionts of etiquette or propriety |
| procrastinate | to delay, put off until later |
| prate | to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion |
| politic | prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed; artful, expedient |
| pernicious | extremely harmful; deadly, fatal |
| penury | extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency |
| paraphrase | to restate in other words; a statement that presents agiven idea in a new language |
| ostentatious | marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy |
| novice | one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience (also used adjectivally) |
| mitigate | to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity |
| inculcate | to impress on the mind by repetition,teach persistently and earnestly |
| impugn | to call into question; to attack as false |
| implicit | implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, inquestioning; potenially contained in |
| ignoble | mean, low, base |
| gratutious | freely given; not called for by circumstances, unwarrented |
| foist | to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty, ot coercion |
| equivocate | to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberatley vague or ambiguous |
| egregious | conspicuous, standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense) |
| efficiacious | effective, producing results |
| dispassionate | impartial; calm, free from emotion |
| deleterious | harmful, injurious |
| debonair | pleasant , courteous, lighthearted; smooth and polished in manner and appearance |
| culpable | deserving blame, worthy of condemntion |
| corroborate | to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify |
| contiguous | side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time |
| clangor | loud ringing sound; to make a loud ringing noise |
| beneficent | performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good |
| astute | shrewd, crafty, showing pratical wisdom |
| accrue | to grow or accumulate over time; to happen as a natural result |
| abstemious | moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abtinence and self-discipline |
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