Vocabulary List #9: 11/3/97
abet | to actively encourage (and activity or plan) |
abode | the place where one lives; home; temporary stay or wait |
acquiesce | to accept or comply tacitly or passively |
adulation | excessive or lavish flattery or admiration |
allay | to subdue or reduce on severity; make quiet |
askew | out of line or order; awry |
assiduous | out of line or order; awry |
baroque | characteristic of the style or art of the 17th century |
bawdy | obscene, lewd; boisterously or humorously indecent |
conflagration | a large disastrous fire; conflict |
craven | defeated, vanquished; lacking courage; fainthearted |
efface | to rub out, erase, obliterate |
hoax | trick, fraud; practical joke |
intercede | to intervene, mediate, interpose |
jaded | tired, worn out; wearied, dulled |
joust | a personal combat or competition |
litany | recitation and response; prayer involving clergy and congregation |
nostrum | a quack medicine; patent medicine; panacea |
noxious | constituting a harmful influence on mind, behavior; corrupting |
occult | beyond human understanding; secret; esoteric |
plagiarism | the use of ideas or words of another as one's own |
primeval | of or relating to the earliest ages; primitive |
promulgate | to make known by open declaration; proclaim |
pulchritude | physical beauty; comeliness |
quirk | an abrupt twist or curve; idiosyncrasy |
recompense | a return for something owed, compensation |
remuneration | the act of compensating for a service or loss; recompense |
shibboleth | a word used for detecting a foreigner because of pronunciation |
stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility; unemotional |
symmetry | balanced proportions; correspondence in size, shape, etc. |