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Abject

completely without pride or dignity

Adherent



someone who sticks to a certain party, person, or set of ideas

Afflict

cause physical pain or suffering

Aloofness

distant or unsympathetic

Balminess

mild, refreshing, soothing

Bourgeoisie

social class between middle and lower class


canteen

sells food and personal items to schools or camps

chastity

abstaining from sexual relations

clamor

loud noise, loudly

clandestine

Kept secret, or done secretively

convoluted

folded, coiled, or twisted

derisive

abusing vocally

dinginess

discoloration due to being dirty

dissemble

conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs

earmark

assign something for a certain purpose

folly

acting stupid, or rashly



formidable

extremely impressive in strength or excellence

furtive

secret and sly, trying to avoid notice of attention

gesticultaing

making gestures instead of speaking

grating

unpleasantly harsh, or grating in sound

indoctrinated

teach someone to accept a set of beliefs uncritically

inexorably

impossible to stop or prevent

inextricably

impossible to unravel or separate from something else

inflection

the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

interminable

extremely long, seeming without an end

irrepressible

impossible to resist or control


meagerness

lack of quantity or quality, inadequacy

odious

extremely unpleasant, repulsive

officiousnes

aggressiveness as evidence by intruding; advancing ideas without invitation

orifice

a hole that opens into a bodily cavity

paraffin

used for candles and preservatives of waterproof clothing

perverse

deviating from what is considered moral or right

procure

get by a special effort

proliferate

grow rapidly in numbers, multiply

pugnacious

eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight

relish

great enjoyment

repository

a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping

repudiate

refuse to accept

reverie

a state of being absorbed in one's one thoughts, daydream

saccharine

overly sweet

sanguine

confidently optimistic and cheerful

scuttle

entrance equipped with a hatch, especially a passageway between decks of a ship

seldom

not often

sordid

foul or run-down and repulsive

specious

plausible but false

succumb

the fail or resist

synthetic

a compound made artificially by chemical reactions

tacitly

understood or implied without being stated

vapid

offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging