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Book F Vocab 9
Games for Vocab lesson 9 Book F
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| adulation | n. praise or flattery that is excessive; adoration, idolization, hero-worship |
| evanescent | adj. vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy; ephemeral, transient, transitory |
| dilatory | adj. not on time, not prompt; tardy, laggard, procrastinating |
| abate | v. to make less in amount, degree, etc.; to subside, become less; to nulify; to deduct, omit; to diminish, decrease; to subside, let up |
| irresolute | adj. unable to make up one's mind, hesitating; indecisive, vacillating, wavering |
| astute | adj. shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom; shrewd, acute; sagacious, jidicious; wily |
| avarice | n. a greedy desire, particulary for wealth; cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness |
| egregious | adj. conspicuous, standing out from the mass; glaring, flagrant, blatant |
| culpable | adj. deserving blame, worthy of condemnation; delinquent, peccant,; blameworthy |
| anathema | n. an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation (often. used adjectivally without the article); a malediction, imprecation; an abomination |
| equivocate | v. to speak or act in a way that allows of more than one interpretation; to be deliberatley vague or ambiguous; to talk out of both sides of one's mouth |
| slovenly | adj. untidy, dirty, careless; unkempt, slatternly; slipshod, lax |
| supposition | n. something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence; an assumption, presumption, hypothesis |
| succinct | adj. expressed briefly and clearly; (clothing) lacking in fullness of cut; concise, terse, compact, pithy |
| recapitulate | v. to review a series of facts; to sum up; to review, summarize, sum up, go over |
| nebulous | adj. cloudlike, resembling a cloud; cloudy in color, not transparent; vague confused, indistinct; hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, vague, murky, opaque; indeterminate |
| resuscitated | v. to revive, bring back to consciousness; to revive, revitalize, restore |
| torpid | adj. inactive, sluggish, dull; lethargic, otiose, languid |
| novice | n. onw who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience (also use adjectivally); a beginner, neophyte, tyro |
| penury | n. extreme poverty; bareness, insufficiency; destitution, want, indigence |
| modicum | n. a small or moderate amount; an iota, jot, speck, bit, dollup |
| pretentious | adj. done for show, striving to make a big impression; claiming merit or position unjustifiably; making demands on one's skill or abilities, ambitious; inflated, ostentatious, affected |
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