75/1000 Important Vocab Words

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importune

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to beg persistently and urgently.
''I importune you to reconsider."

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jingoism

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extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy; e.g. chauvinism combined with hostile attitude

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manqué

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unsuccessful; unfulfilled or frustrated (usually used postpositively): ex. a poet manqué who never produced a single book of verse. -- pronounced mawn-kay

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niggling

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petty or insignificant amount; from verb form niggle, to quibble or fuss

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parlous

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substitute for perilous

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tacit

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silent: implied by or inferred from actions or statements; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"

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votive

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describes anything given in fulfillment of a pledge or vow; ex. votive prayers. should be something like vowal in reference to a vow but

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peroration

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the conclusion of a discourse, consisting of a summing up of the main points and a moving final satement urging acceptance of the argument

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proclivity

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predisposition; Latin proclivitas (literally, slope; by extension, inclination)

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quiescent

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at rest, inactive; Latin quiescere (to rest)

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roué

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a player or a libertine; an immoral man, especially one who has seduced many women and dropped them for new conquests; pronounced roo-ay

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slue

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"to swing around", with the implication that the swinging is done in haste, probably in response to an urgent need

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aberrant

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meaning is close to unusual or uncharacteristic; Latin aberrare (to wander, lose one's way)

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antipathy

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the opposite of sympathy; antipathy is an intense dislike for something or somebody.

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bemused

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to be puzzled or preoccupied with; "the child wad bemused by the bug"

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circuitous

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devious or roundabout; marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; Latin circuitus (a going round in a circle); "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"

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dalliance

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an act of dallying; commonest use is in the phrase amorous dalliance, which means flirtation

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dissemble

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to disguise or conceal; to give a false appearance;

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entity

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an elevated synonym for thing; anything having a distinct existence

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farrago

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any "mixture" or "medley"; a hodgepodge or mishmash

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gormandize

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to eat gluttonously

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impugne

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to challenge, to call something into question, to discredit something; Latin impugnare (to attack)

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jocular

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joking, facetious, tongue-in-cheeck, jesting, not to be taken seriously; jocular implies kidding, rather than unkindness; Latin jocari (to joke)

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martinet

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a strict disciplinarian, one who demands obedience without question; named after the French General Jean Martinet, who invented a new military drill system

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nihilist

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a philosophy that preaches the total rejection of all restraint, all laws, all social and political institutions; Latin nihil (nothing)