Vocab List 4

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Antedate

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to assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one

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invidious

Back 2

showing or feeling envy

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wanton

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1) immoral or uncaste; lewd
2) Gratuitously cruel; merciless
3) marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness
4) capricious and unjust: wanton destruction
5) unrestrainedly excessive: wanton extravagance; wanton depletion of oil reserves
6) luxuriant; overabundant: wanton tresses
7) frolicsome: playful
8) undisciplined; spoiled
9) obsolete. rebellious; refractory

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orgies

Back 4

wild or wanton revelry

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revelry

Back 5

boisterous merrymaking

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nefandous

Back 6

not to be spoken, unfit to speak of, unmentionable, impious

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accrue

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1)to happen or result as a national growth/addition
2)to be added as a matter of periodic gain or advantage
3)to become an enforeable right or demand

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abnegate

Back 8

to renouce (a right or privilege)

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pretentious

Back 9

marked by pretense, conceit or display

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cohere

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to stick together in a mass that resists separation 2) to have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results

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perambulate

Back 11

to walk through 3) to inspect (an area) on foot

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furlough

Back 12

a temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer

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prevaricate

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to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of decieving or divertying attention

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antediluvian

Back 14

of or pretaining to the times, things, events before the great floot in the days of noah

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plenary

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entire

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weltschmerz

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1) a mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
2) a mood of sentimental sadness

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orotund

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1) marked by fullness, strength, and clarity of sound: sonorous
2) pompous, bombastic

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conflagration

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a great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like

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zeitgeist

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the intellectual or moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch

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gape

Back 20

1)to open the mouth wide: yawn
2)to stare wonderingly or stupidly, often with the mouth open
3) to open wide

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erudition

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extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc

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abeyance

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a state of suspension or temporary inaction

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fulcrum

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the support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns

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effusion

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an unrestrained expression, as of feelings

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abrogate

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to abolish, repeal

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enumerating

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to count off or name one by one; list

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panegyric

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1)a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
2) formal or elaborate praise