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reticent
reserved

retincere=to be silent
taciturn
reserved

syn: reticent, tacit
ant: garrulous, loquacious, voluble
laconic
short-spoken, spartan
sententious
short-spoken addages ("it is what it is")
terse
rudely abrupt
tacit
silent
voluble
talkative

flow of words
fastidious
concerned with detail
avocation
hobby

"vocere" to call as in 'to call away from work'
loquacious
talkative

syn: garrulous, voluble
garrulous
talkative

syn: voluble, loquacious
celerity
quickness, swiftness
invidious
discriminatory, giving offense

"made invidious remarks about his opponent"
someone saying something offensive about a VIDEO cover
odious
deserving hatred, hateful

syn: excecrable
garfield HATES odie
execrable
detestable

syn: odious
magnanimous
generous, quick to forgive, like a good king.
quondam
adj., former

"a quondam hippie"
extol
praise highly
maligner
someone who fakes sick to avoid work
insensate
lacking sense
1. inanimate
2. insensitive
3. stupid, senseless

NO SENSE
mephitic
odorous. smelly.

Mefit, goddess of smelly gas. LOL
supernumerary
n or adj

more than what's needed

a supernumerary guest
that guy is a supernumerary
fecund
prolific, capable of producing

fecund parents, fecund fruit tree, fecund writer
pusillanimous
lacking courage, cowardly

pusil (small) animous (spirit)
cogent
convincing, believable

relevant

co gere: to drive together
belie
reveal to be false:
his face belied his words.

to lie
the newspaper belied the facts.
oblite
obscure

obsolite is SO oblite no one knows it anymore.
obviate
remove, elliminate

obviate the risk of injury
evince
to demonstrate, show clearly

evinced his anger by growling.

(evincing means giving evidence)
diffident
not confident

Fido's are confident, but little girls are diffident
mendacious
lying

mendacity: ability to lie

mendisa's mendacity shocks me. she is mendacious.
truculent
fierce, brutal, scathing, hostile

american psycho was a truculent character.
deleterious
harmful
(from delete, destroy)

deletrious rusty nails strewn across the lawn.
heretic
someone who doesn't conform to the accepted religious/social beliefs

catholics were accused of heracy in rome and fed to the lions.
inoccuous
harmless

syn: innoxious
promulgate
to put forth, declare
ineluctable
inescapable

an ineluctable destiny

eluctare: to wrestle away from
antediluvian
before the flood (from the bible)

aka: OLD AS THE HILLS

your dad is antediluvian
jejune
1. lacking interest
2. lacking knowledge
3. lacking value

(ji JOON)
prestidigitation
sleight of hand

literally: fast hands (presto digits)

syn: legerdemain
peregrinate
to journey all over, especially on foot

peregrine: foriegn

froto peregrinated the whole of middle earth to ditch that ring.
legerdemain
sleight of hand

syn: prestidigitation
perorate
to make a loooong speech

per: through

to orate through everyone snoring!
cozen
to swindle

my cousin couzens his lemonade stand customers.
conflagration
destructive fire
punctilious
attentive to etiquette
obesience
sign of courtesy: bow, ring-kiss

gave a show of __ to the king
epithet
nickname

she earned the ___ 'miss know-it-all'.
evanescent
adj. fleeting, vanishing

the difference between right and wrong can be ____
eminent
1. high in rank
2. prominent (an ___ nose)
aggrandize
to exagerrate

increase in intensity, power, prestige
ambrosial
pleasing to the senses, divine
obstreperous
unruly, defiant
dearth
scarcity

ant: plethora
anachronism
something appearing out of its own time

allie's dressmaking is an ___
esoteric
belonging to a select few

poetry is full of ___ langauge
antipathy
hatred, hostility
arbitrate
settle a dispute

arbiter: person who arbitrates
attenuate
weaken
aver
declare, attest
banal
commonplace, trite
exculpate
exonerate
adroit
nimble with the hands

ant: maladroit
catholic
universal
quotidian
daily, ordinary

my _____ tasks.
obsequious
obedient, servient

an _______ bow.
alacrity
eager willingness

he catered to her every whim with _____.
approbation
praise
austere
without adornment, severely simple

syn: ascetic
axiom
a truth

adj form: axiomatic
canonical
following traditional standards
capricious
unpredictable, likely to change his mind
chicanery
trickery
aberrant
deviating from the norm
disabuse
to set right
discordant
conflicting, harsh in sound
disparate
not at all similar
effrontery
boldness; presumptuousness
enervate
to weaken

NOT to energize
ennui
bored restlessness
equivocate
to use ambiguous language to be deceptive

NOT equal
erudite
very learned, scholarly
exigent
urgent, requires immediate attention
filibuster
long speech to delay legislative action

V, N or ADJ!!!
fulminate
loudly attack or cut down

fulmen = lightning bolt
ingenuous
unreserved, candid, artless

ant: disingenuous (fake)
inured
accustomed to hardship

"oeuvre" = work

____ to the poor living conditions.
irascible
prone to anger
laud
to praise

adj: laudatory
rhetoric
1. pompousness
2. study of language use
3. speechmaking
impetuous
sudden or rash (as in a decision)
impetus
a moving force
blandishment
a calming statement
querulous
complaining, peevish
burgeon
to grow or flourish
cadge
to gain by cheating someone
fatuous
foolish

syn: inane
inane
foolish, idiotic
tenable
defendable, capable of holding

a _____ argument
obdurate
unyielding, intractable
occlude
block the way
opprobrium
scorn, disgrace
reproach
find fault, upbraid
pedagogy
study of teaching
pedantic
overly-teaching in a condescending way
penury
poor
pith
essential bit
pithy
short and sweet
platitude
superficial remark
polemical
controversial, argumentative
prodigal
excessively wasteful
rancorous
bitter, long-lasting resentment
repudiate
disown
salubrious
concerning health
solvent
1. able to pay
2. can dissolve another substance
specious
too good to be true. untrue.
spurious
counterfeit
surfeit
excess
tenuous
weak
transient
fleeting
maudlin
overly sentimental, mawkish
raconteur
storyteller
bathetic
1. anti-climactic
2. mawkish, gushy
3. trite, commonplace

all qualities of (n) BATHOS
mawkish
oversentimientality, maudlin
multifarious
multifaceted
presage
portend something bad
profligate
extremely wasteful, prodigal

Marie Antoinette
dissolute
licentious, immoral
unction
1. annointment by sacred oils
2. earnestness of speech
unguent
annointing oil or salve
ignominy
dishonor, disgrace

syn: opprobrium
obloquy
shaming language shouted by the public
ablusive
harshly criticizing
incredulous
skeptical
decorous
having appropriate conduct
hubris
pride, arrogance
imminent
about to happen
temerity
assertiveness, boldness

NOT timorous
timorous
timid