Vocabulary List #19: 2/10/98
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| axiom | a proposition regarded as a self-evident truth |
| benign | of a gentle disposition; showing kindness and gentleness |
| caucus | a closed meeting of a group to set policy / choose candidates |
| dismantle | to take apart or into pieces; to strip of dress or covering |
| embellish | to make beautiful by decorating; heighten attractiveness |
| exotic | strikingly or excitingly different or unusual; not native |
| fetid | having a heavy, offensive smell |
| grovel | to creep with face to the ground; to give oneself over to unworthiness |
| horrendous | perfectly horrid, dreadful |
| impervious | not allowing entrance; incapable of being damaged or harmed |
| lien | charge on real or personal property for satisfaction of debt |
| meager | lacking desirable qualities; deficient in quality or quantity |
| non sequitur | a statement that does not follow logically previous material |
| orison | prayer |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly or flutter; throb |
| parody | a work imitating the style of another for comedy or ridicule |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches; piebald |
| protracted | lengthen in duration; extended; drawn to scale |
| quarry | game killed in hunt; prey; excavation for obtaining stone or slate |
| rectify | to set right, remedy; to correct by removing errors |
| reek | to have a strong, offensive smell; permeated with unpleasantness |
| sloth | indolence, laziness |
| specious | having deceptive attraction or allure; false look of truth |
| synonymous | alike in meaning or significance |
| tenet | a principle of belief held by a group or organization; doctrine |
| urbanity | the state of being of a city; city conduct |
| venomous | poisonous, noxious, spiteful, malevolent |
| visage | the face or appearance of a person; aspect |
| whim | a sudden and capricious idea or turn of mind; impulse |