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Book F Vocab 6
Games for lesson 6 Vocab Book F
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| brusque | (adj) abrupt, blunt, with no formalities; curt, tactless, ungracious, rough |
| demagogue | (n) a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power; a rabble-rouser, firebrand |
| cajole | (v) to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises; to wheedle, inveigle, softsoap, sweet-talk |
| ennui | (n) weariness and discontent from lack of occupation or interest, boredome; languor, listliness |
| anomalous | (adj.) abnormal, irregular, departing from the ususal; exceptional, atypical, unusual, aberrant |
| contrive | (v) to plan with ingenuity, invent; to bring about as the result of a scheme or plan; to think up, devise, concoct, fabricate |
| disabuse | (v) to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking; to undeceive, enlighten, set straight |
| arbiter | (n) one having power to decide a matter at issue; a judge, umpire; a referee, arbitrator, mediator, an authority |
| bizarre | (adj) extremely strange, unusual, atypical; grotesque, fantastic, outlandish |
| castigate | (v) to punish severely; criticize severely; to chastise, rebuke, censure, upbraid |
| aspersion | (n) a damaging or derogatory statement; the act of slandering or defaming; an innuendo, slander, calumny, denigration |
| vouchsafe | (v) to give or furnish condescendingly; to grant; toconcede, eign, bestow, confer, to permit |
| megolomania | (n) a delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality; delusions of grandeur |
| surreptitious | (adj) stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation, made or accomplished by fraud; furtive, clandestine, covert, concealed |
| transmute | (v) to change from one nature, substantance, or form to another; to transform; to convert, translate, metamorphose |
| immutable | (adj) not subject to change, constant; unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable |
| transgress | (v) to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law; to overstep, exceed, trespass; to err |
| heinous | (adj) very wicked, offensive, hateful; evil, odious, abominable, outrageous |
| insurgent | (n) one who rebels or rises against authority; (adj) rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority; surging or rushing in or on; rebellious, mutinous; a revolutionary |
| fetter | (n) a chain or shackle placed on the feet (often used in plural); anything that confines or restrains; (v) to chain or shackle; to render helpless or impotent; a bond, restraint, to bind, restrain, hamper |
| sinecure | (n) a position requiring little or no work; an easy job; a "no show" job, cushy job, "plum" |
| vicarious | (adj) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another; surrogate, substitute; imagined, secondhand |
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