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vocabulary.. chpts 13-15
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| to weigh dow or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt ect) to fill up block hinder, overload,to hamper | encumber |
| a reply to a reply especially from the defendant in a legal suit, an answer, response, ripostre, retort | rejoinder |
| lacking in nutritive value, lacking in interest or substance, immature, juvenile, childish, vapid, inspid, puerite | jejune |
| too ready to believe, easily decieved, gullible | credulous |
| to scold sharply, to chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand | berate |
| willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive, liable to be held resonsible, agreeable, complaint, docile, | amenable |
| the beginning, start, earliest, stage of some process, institution, a commencement, oustset, inauguration | inception |
| coming from the outside, foreign, present but not essential, irrelevant, incidental, extrinsic | extraneous |
| large-scale slaughter, or loss of life, butchery, a bloodbath, massacre | carnage |
| to use up as a result of spending or consumption, to diminish, greatly, to exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt | deplete |
| to spoil, or destroy, an appetite by too much undulgence, especially in sweet or rich things, to glut, satiate, surfeit, to nauseate | cloy |
| the way a person behaves, overall, impression made by comportment, manner ect. facial appearance, mien, conduct, behavior, bearing, carriage | demeanor |
| a strong defense or protection, a solid wall like structure for defense, to provide such defense or protection, stronghold, citadel, bastion, rampart | bulwark |
| courteous, yielding to the wishes and ideas of another person, great respect marked by submission as to a superior, consideration, | deference |
| puzzling, perplexing, not easily understood, mysterious, baffling, mystifying | enigmatic |
| conclusive, final, representing the limit of what can be done, exhaustive, authoritative | definitive |
| offensively, self-assertivel excessively, and arrogantly, self-confident, pushy, forward, aggressive, obstrusive | bomptious |
| to cut short, bring to a halt or end sooner than expected, to reduce, to abbreviate, abridge, contract | curtail |
| firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, an extremely hard substance, obdurate, implacable, inflexible | adamant |
| given over to dissipation and self indulgence, immoral, recklessly, extravagant, person given to self-indulgent, and wild spending, prodigal, improvident, spendthrift | profligate |
| excessively and objectionably sentimental having a mildy sickening flavor, sentimentalized, maudlin, mushy, nauseating | mawkish |
| to oppose successfully, to prevent, frustrate, foil, baffle | thwart |
| something that is heavy or burdensome, (especially an unwelcome resonsibility) a stigma, blame, obligation, duty | onus |
| needed, necessary, regraded as essential or dispensable, obligatory, incumbent, | requisite |
| to soften, make gentle, to calm, allay as an emotionl to reduce in intensity, to appease, assuage, placate, pacify | mollify |
| of or pertaining to a tailor or his work, having to do with clothes or dress (especially mens) of or pertaining to men's clothes | sartorial |
| a vague sense of approaching misfortune, foreboding, premonition, hunch | presentiment |
| tolerance, and self-control in the face of provocation, patience, the act of refrainging from something, restraint | forbearance |
| unquestionable, beyond, dispute, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable | incontrovertible |
| to break the surface of the water, to turn sideway to wind and waves; to bring up or begin to talk about a subject to announce to pierce( a keg, or cask) in order to draw off liquid, a spit for roasting, a tool for tapping casks, to bring up mention, to introduce, present | broach |
| deeply unhappy or dejected, without hope, beyond consolation, grief-stricken, inconsolable, comfortless | disconsolate |
| nosiy in a coarse, offensive way, obvious, or conspicious, especially in an unfavorable sense, flagrant, glaring, egregious, | blatant |
| an expert one who is well qualified to pass critical judgements especially in one of the fine arts, savant, pundit | connoisseur |
| showing no feeling or emotion inanimate, motionless, stoical, insensible | impassive |
| unfavorable, unlucky, suggesting bad luck for the future, unprpitious, unpromising, untimely | inauspicious |
| expressed in lofty or high-flown language (oftne in the sense of being pompous or over elaborate, good speach, great speaker, gradiloquent, orotun, stilted | magniluquent |
| a liking, preference, aprtiality, preference, fondness, taste | predilection |
| suitable or convenient for a particular purpose, occurring at an appropriate time, timely, suitable, felicitous | opportune |
| abdundantly productive, abundant profuse, fruitful, fecund, productive, profuse | profilic |
| puzzled not knwoing what to do, at a loss, perplexed, baffled, stumped, flabbergasted | nonplussed |
| to support, prop up, strengthen, a supporting structure, boister, reinforce, brace, prop, shore up | buttress |
| to affirm, delcare confidently (law term) to assert, affirm, asseverate, avouch | aver |
| noisy revelry or merry making (often with a suggestion of heavy drinking) drinking about, drunken revel, binge | carousal |
| a rule, test, standard judgement, or evaluation, yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon | criterion |
| swollen, bloated, filled to excess, overdecorated, or excessive in language, inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown | turgid |
| to beg earnestly n' humbly to plead petition, implore, entreat | supplicate |
| showing unusally early development (talents and mentally) forward, gifted, advanced | precocious |
| delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel, brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish | sadistic |
| a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items, a general mixture, petals mixed with spices forscent, hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medley | potpurri |
| winding twisted, crooked, highly involved, complex, devious, circutious, serpentine, labyrinthine, | tortuous |
| self righteous, characterized by moralizing, given to use of maxims or adages, saying much in few words, pithy, aphorisitic, epigrammatic, moralistic | sentenious |
| stubborn, unyielding, obstinate, adamant | obdurate |
| an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust, to feed or supply with anything to excess, glut, to cloy, satiate | surfeit |
| apparent, appearing to be true, or actual, capable of being shown or exhibited, professed, purported | ostensible |
| to expand on write or talk at lenth or in detail; to move about freely, to elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam | expatiate |
| a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral ect) an affiction, malady, defect | infirmity |
| to encourage, assist, (especially in something wrong or unworthy) to aid, assist, help further | abet |
| to promote trouble, or rebellion, to apply warm liquids to, warm, instigate, incite, stir up | foment |
| to compare critically in order to note differences similarities ect. to arrange in order for some specific purpose, to srot out, arrange, to cross-check | collate |
| "H" relating to HERCULES; "h" characterized by great strength, very hard to do in the sense of requiring unusal strength, mighty, powerful, arduous, onerous, collosal | Herculean |
| frightful, horrible, ghastly, gruesome, gory, hideous | grisly |
| without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily done, extemperaneous composition or remark, a minimal piece suggestive of improvisation, sontaneous, on the spur of the moment | impromptu |
| a confused hodgepodge of sounds, hubbub, an uproar, or commotion that goes far beyond what is justified, a furor, uproar, hullaballoo | brouhaha |
| easy made angry, bad temepered, exhaustive, authorative | choleric |
| to send or hand in (as $$) to cancel (as a penalty or punishment) to forgive, pardon, to lessen, diminish, to put off, postpone, defer, to return, remand, subside, abate | remit |
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