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day 1 vocab

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Castigate	to punish
Chagrin	Dissapointment
Chastise	Punish verbally
Coalesce	Come together
Condone	allow, overlook
Cryptic	mysterious
Defile	to ruin
Deleterious	Hazardous
Effrontery	Nerve
Elaborate	Detailed
Engender	create
Epicure	a food person
Epitomize	characterize
Frivolous	Not serious
Heresy	an opinion violently opposed to
Impugn	to criticize
Innate	inherited
Inscrutable	Hard to understand
Languid	Slow, Tired
Lugubrious	Extremely sad
Neutral	un-baised
Nullify	To eliminate
Orthodox	Traditional
Paragon	Model of excellence
Parody	Mockery
Penurious	unwilling to spend money
Pious	deeply religious
Preclude	prevent
Precocious	Adult-like
Proficient	Skillful
Provincial	narrow- minded
Redundant	repetitive
relapse	slip back
Rescind	take back
Sequester	isolate
spurious	false
squalor	Filth
stringent	strict
tedious	boring
temerity	boldness
repugnant	distasteful
uniform	without variety
vehement	urgent
virulent	very harmful
zeal	enthusiasm
abashed	embarrassed
abrupt	sudden
animosity	hatred
appease	make peace
archetype	typical model
atrophy	waste away
auspicios	favorable
aversion	dislike
capitulate	surrender
clemency	forgiveness
deference	show of respect
denounce	speak out against
dishearten	discourage
dissent	disagreement
diverse	variedd
docile	tamed, calm
eloquent	graceful in speech
embellish	add to
espouse	support
exhaustive	thorough
expunge	get rid of
fanatic	extremely devoted
fastidious	hard to please
fatuous	silly
forthright	straightforward
frugality	careful about spending money
furtive	secretive
gullible	believe anything
impartial	unbiased
incoherent	impossible to understand
inevitable	bound to happen
innumerable	too many to count
irascible	irritable
laud	praise
marred	damaged
myriad	great number of
obsolete	no longer in use
prosaic	uninspired
provocative	attracting attention
prudent	careful
refute	disapprove
resignation	acceptance of situation
stanza	a section of poem/song
stolid	showing little emotion
sublime	grand
superficial	shallow
tentative	not final
trivial	unimportant
vague	indistinct
volutary	willing
abate	lessen in intensity
abstract	lacking substance
alacity	eagerness to respond
anonymity	lack of recognition
apprehensive	worried
arduous	requiring hard work
articulate	speak clearly
aspiration	goal
banal	dull
benign	not causing harm
candor	straightforward
censure	blame
cogent	powerfully convincing
concise	briefly stated
congenial	friendly
debunk	disprove
deplete	use up
desecrate	defile a holy base
disdain	scorn
dissemble	to put on a false appearance
elusive	tough to catch
emendation	correction
enfranchise	grant the right to vote
extraneous	irrelevant
fallacious	false
flourish	prosper
gratuitous	free
harbinger	a signal of
kinetic	having to do with motion
latent	potential
luminous	giving off light
malinger	use sickness or injury to get out of work
manipulate	control shrewdly
maxim	an old saying
mediate	help settle differences
narcissism	excessive love of one self
opaque	impossible to see through
panacea	something that cures everything
paradigm	example
permeate	penetrate
poignant	extremly moving
prodigious	extraordinary in size
promulgate	declare publicly
provident	preparing for the future
querulous	complaining
recalcitrant	stubbornly disobedient
redolent	fragrant
regress	retreat
remonstrate	to argue against
surrogate	substitute
tenable	credible
terminate	to end
touchstone	standard
vilify	verbally attack

The Cooper Family

Shipley School

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