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. |