Vocabulary List #7: 10/17/97
| adulation | excessive flattery or admiration |
| allegation | positive assertion; charge |
| ameliorate | to make better; improve |
| carafe | a bottle with flaring lip used to hold water and beverages |
| comatose | characterized by lethargic inertness; torpid in coma |
| conclave | a private meeting or secret assembly; gathering, convention |
| concomitant | accompanying, especially in a subordinate way, lateral connection |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing with a single thought or event |
| impermeable | not permitting passage through its substance |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger |
| juxtaposition | act of placing two or more things side by side |
| lacerate | to cut or tear away |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity |
| mollify | to sooth in temper or disposition |
| obnoxious | meddlesome; disgustingly objectionable; highly offensive |
| officious | dutiful, obliging; meddlesome |
| patrimony | anything derived from one's father or ancestor |
| paucity | smallness of number; fewness |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances |
| proverbial | something commonly spoken of which has become a proverb |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech |
| scintillate | to emit quick flashes as if throwing sparks |
| sedulous | involving/accomplished with careful perseverance; diligent in pursuit |
| servile | of or befitting a slave or a menial position |
| tantamount | equivalent in value; significance of effect |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time |
| vicissitude | quality or state of being changeable |
| whet | to make keen or more acute |
| writhe | to twist into coils or folds |