Midterm English Vocab

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Arrogate

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To claim or take without right

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Banal

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Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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Carping

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Tending to find fault

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Eschew

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To avoid, shun, keep away from

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Germane

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Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Largesse

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Generosity in giving; lavish/bountiful contributions

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Taciturn

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Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

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Temporize

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To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

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Tenable

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Capable of being held or defended

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Accost

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To approach and speak first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

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Celerity

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Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

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Halcyon

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A legendary bird-- calm, peaceful, happy, golden; prosperous/affluent

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Histrionic

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Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

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Incendiary

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Deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires

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Maelstrom

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(N.). A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

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Myopic

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Nearsighted ; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking in foresight or discernment

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Myopic

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Nearsighted ; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking in foresight or discernment

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Pejorative

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Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory,deprecatory, belittling

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Propriety

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The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

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Propriety

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The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

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Savrilege

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Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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Cavort

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To romp/ prance around exuberantly; to make merry

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Cavort

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To romp/ prance around exuberantly; to make merry

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Evince

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To display clearly, to make evident/provoke

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Cavort

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To romp/ prance around exuberantly; to make merry

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Evince

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To display clearly, to make evident/provoke

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Feckless

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Lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective; weak; irresponsible, unreliable

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Nefarious

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Wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards

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Glean

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To gather but by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a feild by the reapers

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Jocular

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Humorous, jesting, jolly, joking

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Ludicrous

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Ridiculous; laughable; absurd

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Nettle

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A prickly or stinging plant; (v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely

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Pusillanimous

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Contemptibly cowardly or mean spirited

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Recbant

Strat

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In a reclining position, lying down, in the position of one sleeping or resting

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Stratagem

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A scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end

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Acuity

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Sharpness (particularly of the mind)

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Delineate

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To portray, sketch or describe on accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorally

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Enervate

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To weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble hamstring

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Piquant

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Stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative

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Esoteric

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Intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret

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Fecund

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Fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive

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Garner

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To squire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use

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Hallow

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To set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere

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Idiosyncrasy

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A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify

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Mundane

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Earthly, worldly, relating to practice and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary.

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Ubiquitous

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Present or existing everywhere

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Agnostic

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One who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; with out faith

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Derelict

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Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty

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Diatribe

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A bitter and prolonged verbal attack

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Propinquity

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Nearness in place or time; kinship

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Effigy

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A crude image of a despised person

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Inane

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Silly, empty of a despised person

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Indubitable

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Certain not to be doubted or denied

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Motif

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A principle idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design

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Neophytes

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A new convert, begging met, novice

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Plenary

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Complete in all aspects of essentials; absolute, attended by all qualified members

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Surveillance

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A watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation

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Verbiage

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Language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression

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Verdant

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Green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement

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Substantive

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Real, having a solid basis; considerable in number or amount; meaningful and on topic

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Viscous

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Having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity

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Atrophy

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The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away

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Flotsam

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floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

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Frenetic

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Frenzied; highly agitated