American Literature Vocabulary

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Gormond

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One who is excessively fond of drinking or eating.

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Ruse

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Wily subterfuge.

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Subterfuge

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Deception by artifice or stratigem.

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Bilious

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Of or relating to bile; of or indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition.

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Diffident

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Hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self confidence.

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Antipathy

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Settled aversion or dislike.

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Enigma

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An obscure speech or writting; something hard to understand or explain; an inscrutiable person or thing.

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Propensity

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An often intense natural inclination or preference.

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Judicious

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Having, excercising, or characterized by sound judgement.

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Inscrutiable

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Not readily investigated, interperited or understood; mysterious.

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Torpid

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Sluggish in functioning or acting; lacking in energy or vigor

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Interloper

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One thing that intrudes in a place or sphere of activity.

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Lamentable

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That which is to be regretted or lamented; deplorable; expressing greif; mournful.

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Sanguine

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Consisting of or relating to blood; confident, optimistic; having blood as the predominating bodily humor.

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Insuperable

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Incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over or solved.

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Morose

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Having a solemn or gloomy disposition, marked by of expressive of gloom.

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Redolent

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Excluding fragrance; evokative or suggestive.

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Ignaminious

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Marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame; despicable, humiliating, degrading.

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Precocious

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Exceptionally early in development or occurence; exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age.

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Turbid

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Thick or opaque with or as if with royalled sentiment.

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Venerate

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To regard with revenerential respect or admiring deference.

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Fortitude

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Strength of mind that enables a person to encounter or bear pain or adversity with courage.

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Trite

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Hackneyed or boring from much use, not fresh or original.

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Asthetic

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Of or relating to or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful, relates to a sense of beauty, style, or taste.

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Physiogramy

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The facial features held to show qualities of mind or character by their configuration or expression.

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Vapid

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Lacking livelyness, tang, briskness, or force; flat, dull.

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Fastidious

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Having high and ofter capricious standards; difficult to please; showing or demanding excessive delacy or care.

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Supercitious

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Cooly and patronizingly haughty.

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Trepidation

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Timorous uncertain agitation.

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Gregarious

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Tending to associate with others of one's kind; marked by or indicating a liking of companionship.

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Confabulate

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To talk informally; chat

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Coquette

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A person who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the gain the attention and admiration of a potential romantic partner.

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Vivacious

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Lively in temper, conduct, or spirit; high-spirited

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Conspicuous

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Obvuous to the eye or mind; attracting attention

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Soporific

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Causing or tending to cause sleep

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Philanthropist

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Loving humans, good people who do good things for humans

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Perfidy

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Quality or state of faitlessness or disloyalty

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Indignent

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Impovished; deficient; totally lacking in something specific.

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Belabored

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To attack verbally; to beat soundly; to explain or insist upon.

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Indefatigable

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Incapable of being fatigued; untiring.

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Pious

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Marked by or showing reverence for divine and deity worship; marked by conspicuous religiosity; hypocritically religious.

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Acrimony

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Harsh or biting sharpness, especially of words, manner, or disposition.

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Profusion

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Lavish expenditure; great quantity; lavish display or supply.

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Charlaton

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Quack; one making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability; fraud

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Incredulous

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Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true; skeptical

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Ardor

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An often restless or transitory warmth of feeling; zeal; sexual excitment

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Repartee

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A quick and witty reply; a succession or interchange of clever retorts

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Despot

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A ruler with absolute power or authority, a person exercising power tyrannically.

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Plebein

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A member of the common people, crude or coarse in manner or style.

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Avarice

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Excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain; greediness.

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Poignant

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Painfully affecting the feelings

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Conjecture

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Interpretations of omens, conclusion by guess work; to arrive or deduce by guesswork.

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Effrontery

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Shameless boldness; insolence

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Evince

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To constitute outward evidence of, to display clearly

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Prostrate

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Stretched out with face on the ground with adoration or submission; lying flat

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Supine

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Lying on the back or with the face upward

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Besotted

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Drunk, enfatuated, gaga over

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Purloin

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To appropriate wrongfully and often by a breach of trust

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Eschew

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To avoid habitually, especially on moral or practical grounds

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Tractable

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Capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled

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Neophyte

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A new convert; novice; a beginner.

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Acquiesce

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To accept, comply; submit tacitly

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Tacit

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Expressed or carried on without words or speech; implied or indicated; as by an act or by silence

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Onerous

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Involving, imposing, or constituting a burden

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Respite

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A period of temporary delay; an interval of rest or relief

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Psycophant

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A servile self-seeking flatterer

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Panache

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Ornamental taught, a dash of flamboyance in style or action.

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Mercenary

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One that serves merely for wages, especially a soldier hired into foreign service; serving merely for pay or sorted advantage; doing it for the money

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Superflous

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Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary; extravagant; not needed, unnecessary

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Clandestine

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Marked by, held in, or conducted with great secrecy, surreptitious

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Destitute

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Lacking something needed or desirable; lacking possessions or resources; suffering extreme poverty

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Austere

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Stern or cold in appearance or manner; markably simple or unadorned