Vocabulary List #24: 3/23/98
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity; spurious |
| babbitt | extreme conformist; unthinking conformer |
| bowdlerize | to remove offensive passages from a book; expurgate; censor |
| comestible | eatable; edible |
| commend | to entrust for care; to recommend as very worthy |
| contumely | haughty and contemptuous rudeness; scornful insolence |
| copious | present in large quantities; abundant |
| credulous | easily convinced; believing too easily |
| deterrent | anything that discourages or prevents an action |
| disciple | one who accepts and spreads the doctrines of another |
| divulge | to make known; reveal |
| dolorous | expressive of misery or grief; mournful |
| equine | relating to or resembling horses |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| fraught | well-supplied or provided; full of or accompanied by something |
| hovel | open shed or shelter |
| inclement | unfavorable, rough, severe, stormy |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied; wanting more; greedy |
| insensate | lacking awareness or sensation; dulled |
| insuperable | incapable of being overcome |
| jabberwocky | meaningless speech or writing |
| liege | a lord or sovereign; a subject or vassal |
| lugubrious | exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful; tearful |
| mendicant | begging; asking for handouts |
| misnomer | the use of a wrong name or designation |
| myopic | deficiency of foresight or discernment |
| neolithic | relating to the Stone Age; outmoded or outdated |
| ostensible | apparent; seeming |
| usury | lending of money with interest charge (usually very high) |
| utility | something useful or for a purpose; adapted for general use |