High Level Vocab 2

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stertorous

Back 1

characterized by a harsh snoring or gasping sound

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sedulous

Back 2

1-involving or accomplished with careful perseverence

2-diligent in application or pursuit

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hirsute

Back 3

having a lot of hair especially on the face or body

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incarnadine

Back 4

1-having the pinkish color of flesh

2-red, bloodred

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maudlin

Back 5

1-showing or expressing too much emotion esp. in a foolish or annoying way

2-drunk enough to be emotionally silly

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lissome

Back 6

thin and graceful, easily flexed

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otiose

Back 7

producing no useful result; being at leisure; lacking use or effect

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stultify

Back 8

1-to cause someone/something to become dull, slow

2- to allege or prove to be of unsound mind and hence not responsible

3-cause to appear to be stupid

4-to impair, invalidate, or make ineffective

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parturition

Back 9

the action or process of giving birth to offspring

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vicissitude

Back 10

1-quality or state of being changeable

2-natural change or mutation visible in nature or human affairs

3-favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance

4-a difficult or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action and usually beyond one's control

5-alternating change

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tumid

Back 11

marked by swelling; protuberant, bulging

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insouciance

Back 12

a relaxed and calm state, a feeling of not worrying about anything

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halcyon

Back 13

a bird identified with the kingfisher and held in ancient legend to nest at sea about the time of the winter solstice and to calm the waves during incubation

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scatology

Back 14

1-interest in or treatment of obscene matters esp. in literature

2-the biologically oriented study of excrement

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sententious

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1-having or expressing strong opinions about what people should or should not do.

2-terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression

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ascetic

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1-relating to or having a strict and simple way of living that avoids physical pleasures

2-practicing strict self denial

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jejune

Back 17

not interesting, too simple; juvenile or puerile

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pulchritude

Back 18

physical comeliness

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venery

Back 19

1-the art, act, or practice of hunting; animals that are hunted

2-the pursuit of or indulgence in sexual pleasure

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demotic

Back 20

1-popular or common

2-relating to simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing

3-relating to the form of Modern Greek based on everyday speech