Vocab 2, Part 2

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Jeer

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V- To ridicule; to insult
N- an insult
Jester--> Jeer--> Jester would insult and ridicule himself to make the king laugh.

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Lampoon

Back 2

to ridicule
--> National Lampoon movies ridicule society and teenage life

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Lethargic

Back 3

tired; lazy
Ar--> When you say arrr--> it means either ur a pirate or your tired--> lazy.

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Libel
(Libelous)

Back 4

printed lies that harm someone's reputation
harmful and often untrue
--> Lie is in the word--> lies that harm someones reputation.

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Listless

Back 5

lacking energy
less--> means has less of something--> without energy.

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Malediction

Back 6

a curse
--> Males dictate a lot of curse words for fun--> a curse.

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Malefactor
(Malevolent)

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evildoer
hostile; wishing harm to others
--> The male is usually the evil villian in movies--> the male factor is therefore the evildoer or the factor of evil.

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Malice
(Malicious)

Back 8

ill will; evil intent
deliberately harmful
--> Mal--> Bad or evil in spanish--> Ill will.

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Malign
(Malignancy)

Back 9

to speak lies about; to slander
harmfulness
--->??

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Marginal
(Marginalize)

Back 10

insignificant; at the edge
to put in an insignificant position
-->Margin is on the side of the written paragraph and therefore blank and insignificant.

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Mere
(Merely)

Back 11

insignificant; minor
only
--> Mere spec--> a spec is small--> something small is insignifcant or minor usually.

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Misanthrope

Back 12

one who dislikes all people
Mis Anthrop hates everyone.

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Mock
(Mockery)

Back 13

Adj- fake
V- to ridicule; to mimic
scornful ridicule
-->The Mocking bird can mimic voices or sounds.

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Monotony
(Monotonous)

Back 14

single, unchanging tone; boredom
lacking in variety
--> Mono means single or one, therefore single unchanging tone.

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Mordant

Back 15

bitting; very sarcastic
--> ant--> fire ant--> the bite is very harsh--> very sarcastic.

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Neglect
(Negligent, Negligible)

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V- to fail to take care of
N- lack of attention
carelessness; inattentive
so small as to be meaningless; insignificant
-->??

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Nondescript

Back 17

lacking distinct characteristics; dull
--> Descriptive--> something with a lot of characteristics--> non means lacking.

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Notorious
(Notoriety)

Back 18

famous for being bad
unfavorable fame
--> Notorious the movie--> About biggie small and his infamy

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Odious
Odium

Back 19

disgusting; hateful
hatred
--> dious--> dis--> disgusting--> hateful

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Onerous

Back 20

troublesome; burdensome
-->??

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Ostracize

Back 21

to exclude a person from a group
-->cize--> size--> people to big or too small from a certain weight group for wrestling will be ostracized from it.

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Overbearing

Back 22

domineering; arrogant
over--> menas looking down on--> thinking highly of oneself--> arrogant.

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Oversight

Back 23

careless mistake; failure to notice something
supervision
--> looking down on (literally)--> supervision or a failure to notice something even though u should

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Pan

Back 24

to criticize; to review harshly
--> Parents sometimes hit kids with pans when they got really bad grades--> review harshly.

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Pariah

Back 25

outcast; lowest-ranking member of society
--> ??

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Parody

Back 26

N- humorous imitation
V- to ridicule through imitation
--> ??

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Pejorative

Back 27

insulting
--> Eddy Peij or Pej always insults me about my music--> insulting.

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Pretense
(Pretentious, Pretension. Unpretentious)

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a false appearance; an excuse
pretending to be important or fancy
a false claim; showiness
modest; straightforward
-->pre is before and tense is general time or structure--> you make an excuse if you come at the wrong time.

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Provincial

Back 29

narrow-minded
--> Provincials--> important things to survive--> if you focus only on the provincials on a trip then you are narrow minded.

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Prurient

Back 30

indecent; lustful
--> Prur--> Prud--> if your prude your no lustful.

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Pungent

Back 31

sharp in smell or taste
-->?

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Querulous

Back 32

complaining
--> rulous--> Rule--> people complain about rules.

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Rail

Back 33

to complain; to criticize loudly
--> trains run on rails--> their loud--> to criticize loudly.

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Rancor
(Rancorous)

Back 34

bitter anger; hatred
bitterly resentful
--> you might ancor your self to s spot infront of someone that you have a deep hatred for and you want to confront them.

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Rebuff

Back 35

to refuse bluntly
--> re--> refuse

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Rebuke

Back 36

V- to scold; to criticize
N- scolding; criticism
--> buke--> puke--> we criticize people for puking after drinking.

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Reculse
(Reclusive)

Back 37

one who lives alone and avoids people
living alone; secluded
-->??

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Remiss

Back 38

careless; not responsible
--> if you miss something it means ur careless.

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Remonstrate

Back 39

to argue against something; to scold
--> demonstrate--> opposite of showing something--> i.e argue against it.

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Remote

Back 40

distant; far away
--> you use a remote to turn on the distant tv. haha.

Front 41

Renounce
(Renunciation)

Back 41

to give up a habit or opinion; to disown publically
rejection; disowning
-->announce is to tell someone something publicaly, so to re nounce is to disown publicaly

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Reprehend
(Reprehensible)

Back 42

to criticize
blameworthy; shameful
--> Reprehending the criminal is criticizing them when arresting them.

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Reproach
(Irreproachable)

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to scold; to blame
blameless; beyond criticism
--> roach--> i scold at roaches and their disgustingness.

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Reprove
(Reprobate)

Back 44

to criticize
immoral person
-->??

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Repudiate

Back 45

to reject
-->diate--> diet--> i reject dieting as a way of losing weight.

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Repugnant

Back 46

offensive; disgusting
--> pungant--> sharp in taste--> disgusting.

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Rescind

Back 47

to take back; to repeal
Re--> to take back/ redo.

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Resigned
(Resignation)

Back 48

accepting the inevitable
hopeless acceptance
quiting one's job
--> ??

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Revile

Back 49

to insult
--> you might insult someone if they are vile.

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Revulsion

Back 50

extreme disgust
--> Revulsion--> Repulsion--> repulsive--> extreme disgust.

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Sardonic

Back 51

sarcastic; mocking
-->sar--> sarcastic

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Satire
(Satirize, Satirical)

Back 52

the use of ridicule to expose a flaw
a literary work that ridicules
to ridicule a flaw
ridiculing
-->??

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Scapegoat

Back 53

one blamed for the actions taken by others
--> goat--> usually an animal that people blame for wrong doings.

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Scathing
(Unscathed)

Back 54

harshly critical
undamaged
--> scathed is damaged--> un scathed--> undamaged.

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Scoff

Back 55

to ridicule; to mock
--> coff--> cough--> sometimes say things in between fake coughs to ridicule someone

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Scorn

Back 56

to show dislike and disrespect
-->??

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Slight

Back 57

V- to insult
N- an insult
Adj- small
--> Might ridicule someone by saying their belly is slight when really its huge.

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Smug
(Smugness)

Back 58

self-satisfied
an excessive feeling of self- satisfaction
-->??

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Sneer

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V- to show scorn
N- a facial expression of scorn
--> Crunch your face up in anger--> scorn.

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Snide

Back 60

arrogantly insulting
-->??

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Sniff

Back 61

to express disapproval
-->??

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Soporific

Back 62

causing sleep; boring
Sop--> soap--> soap opera's put me to sleep.

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Sordid

Back 63

dirty; gross; immoral
Sor--> sore--> toe sore--> they are gross and dirty.

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Spiteful

Back 64

hateful; mean
--> Spite is hate--> to be spiteful is to be hateful.

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Spurn

Back 65

to openly reject
-->??

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Stickler

Back 66

a picky, demanding person
--->??

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Stringent

Back 67

strict; harsh
--> a gent or a male can sometimes be strict or harsh.

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Sully

Back 68

to dirty
--> to sully ones clothes--> to dirty them.

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Superficial

Back 69

shallow; on the surface
-->??

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Tentative

Back 70

uncertain
--> tent--> if a tent is not built properly it can be uncertain that it will safeguard you from nature.

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Tepid

Back 71

lukewarm
T--> temperature--> lukewarm

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Tirade

Back 72

long, angry, critical speech
--> rade--> rave--> a long good review--> opposite--> a long angry speech.

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Travesty

Back 73

a ridiculous imitation; a joke
--> ??

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Uncanny

Back 74

weird; impossible to explain
-->The contents of a can sometimes be impossible to explain...

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Upbraid

Back 75

to criticize harshly
--> braid is to twist hair--> if you twist someone in a way with words its criticizing them--> harshly.

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Vapid

Back 76

uninteresting; flavorless
--> Vape--> smokeless but not flavorless.

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Vilify
(Vilification)

Back 77

to criticize harshly
harsh criticism
--> ??

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Vitriolic

Back 78

sharp or bitter ( as in criticism)
-->Vitir--> bitter.

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Wail
(Bewail)

Back 79

V- to cry loudly
N- a loud, sad cry
to cry of complain about
--> a whale make loud cries when he surfaces from the ocean to breathe.

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Wry

Back 80

sarcastically humorous
--> Women Remember Your sarcastic comments.