World Lit I: 9 Weeks Vocab Review

World Lit I: 9 Weeks Vocab Review

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sour or bitter in taste

• credulous

• auspicious

• acerbic

• desultory

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liveliness and eagerness

• alacrity

• auspicious

• ebulience

• duplicity

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indicating favorable circumstances and good luck

• auspicious

• capricious

• credulous

• desultory

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determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity

• credulous

• duplicity

• disingenuous

• capricious

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a place where things merge or flow together

• confluence

• credulous

• desultory

• ebullience

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showing a lack of judgment or experience

• acerbic

• capricious

• alacrity

• credulous

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marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

• disingenuous

• desultory

• duplicity

• credulous

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not straightforward or candid

• ebullience

• acerbic

• capricious

• disingenuous

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the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith

• auspicious

• duplicity

• ebullience

• confluence

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eager enjoyment or approval

• ebullience

• confluence

• dupicity

• credulous

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take place or happen afterward or as a result

• fatuous

• inculcate

• ensue

• misanthropy

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greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

• laudatory

• exorbitant

• temerity

• reticent

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devoid of intelligence

• inculcate

• temerity

• laudatory

• fatuous

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teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

• laudatory

• ensue

• inculcate

• pedantic

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full of or giving praise

• temerity

• laudatory

• pedantic

• ensue

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hatred of mankind

• misanthropy

• laudatory

• exorbitant

• reticent

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marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning

• exorbitant

• pedantic

• temerity

• reticent

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reluctant to draw attention to yourself

• misanthropy

• inculcate

• exorbitant

• reticent

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fearless daring

• temerity

• misanthropy

• inculcate

• exorbitant

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capacity or power to produce a desired result

• mutability

• efficacy

• intrinsic

• amenable

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the quality of being capable of change

• efficacy

• inscrutable

• mutability

• vehemence

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difficult or impossible to understand

• mutability

• inscrutable

• efficacy

• amenable

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disposed or willing to comply

• countenance

• propound

• erudition

• amenable

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belonging to a thing by its very nature

• emaciated

• intrinsic

• vehemence

• inscrutable

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very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

• emaciated

• mutability

• vehemence

• intrinsic

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intensity or forcefulness of expression

• erudition

• vehemence

• countenance

• propound

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the appearance conveyed by a person's face

• countenance

• propound

• intrinsic

• erudition

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put forward, as of an idea

• inscrutable

• amenable

• intrinsic

• propound

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profound scholarly knowledge

• erudition

• countenance

• propound

• intrinsic

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depriving one of self-esteem

• palliate

• impalpable

• abasement

• scurrilous

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lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

• odius

• machination

• defunct

• palliate

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unequivocally detestable

• palliate

• odious

• abasement

• defunct

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a crafty and involved plot to achieve your ends

• scurrilous

• machination

• malevolence

• ethereal

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not perceptible to the touch

• scurrilous

• impalpable

• malevolence

• semblance

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no longer in force or use; inactive

• scurrilous

• malevolent

• machination

• defunct

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expressing offensive, insulting, or scandalous criticism

• machination

• scurrilous

• palliate

• defunct

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wishing evil to others

• malevolence

• semblance

• palliate

• scurrilous

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the outward or apparent appearance or form of something

• ethereal

• malevolence

• semblance

• defunct

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characterized by lightness and insubstantiality

• ethereal

• semblance

• palliate

• impalpable

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scold or reprimand; take to task

• animosity

• admonish

• copious

• censure

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a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

• eclectic

• germane

• indolent

• animosity

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harsh criticism or disapproval

• censure

• copious

• didactic

• inveterate

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large in number or quantity

• copious

• deleterious

• eclectic

• animosity

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harmful to living things

• didactic

• censure

• germane

• deleterious

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instructive, especially excessively

• germane

• didactic

• copious

• deleterious

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selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

• eclectic

• germane

• inveterate

• animosity

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relevant and appropriate

• indolent

• eclectic

• copious

• germane

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disinclined to work or exertion

• indolent

• inveterate

• germane

• animosity

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habitual

• indolent

• inveterate

• germane

• didactic

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noble and generous in spirit

• magnanimous

• petulant

• nebulous

• precocious

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lacking definite form or limits

• quixotic

• rectify

• nebulous

• subjugate

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easily irritated or annoyed

• petulant

• nebulous

• quixotic

• predilection

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characterized by exceptionally early development

• ubiquitous

• quixotic

• precocious

• provincial

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a predisposition in favor of something

• predilection

• rectify

• subjugate

• magnanimous

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associated with an administrative district of a nation

• nebulous

• provincial

• magnanimous

• rectify

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not sensible about practical matters

• quixotic

• provential

• magnanimous

• ubiquitous

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make right or correct

• subjugate

• rectify

• precocious

• predilection

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make subservient; force to submit or subdue

• ubiquitous

• subjugate

• rectify

• quixotic

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being present everywhere at once

• quixotic

• magnanimous

• provincial

• ubiquitous

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official acceptance or agreement

• banal

• cogent

• commensurate

• approbation

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of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor

• austere

• egregious

• hubris

• inundate

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repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

• banal

• austere

• cogent

• commensurate

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powerfully persuasive

• banal

• fervent

• dissuade

• cogent

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corresponding in size or degree or extent

• commensurate

• egregious

• fervent

• hubris

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turn away from by persuasion

• fervent

• egregious

• banal

• dissuade

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conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• approbate

• austere

• egregious

• banal

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characterized by intense emotion

• hubris

• austere

• fervent

• inundate

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overbearing pride or presumption

• hubris

• austere

• banal

• approbation

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fill or cover completely, usually with water

• commensurate

• inundate

• dissuade

• cogent

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brief and to the point

• laconic

• prodigious

• ostentacious

• querulous

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intended to attract notice and impress others

• querulous

• sagacious

• vilify

• ostentacious

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exceedingly harmful

• vilify

• pernicious

• ostentacious

• sagacious

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great in size, force, extent, or degree

• prodigious

• sagacious

• pernicious

• redress

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habitually complaining

• laconic

• pernicious

• prodigious

• querulous

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make reparations or amends for

• vilify

• redress

• sagacious

• supersede

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acutely insightful and wise

• ostentacious

• sagacious

• pernicious

• transpire

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take the place or move into the position of

• vilify

• transpire

• redress

• supersede

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come about, happen, or occur

• transpire

• vilify

• redress

• supersede

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spread negative information about

• supersede

• transpire

• vilify

• redress

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make subservient; force to submit or subdue

• ubiquitous

• subjugate

• rectify

• quixotic