P&P Vocab

Match the following terms with their definitions

• a quick and cheerful response

• accede

• friendly, good-natured

• alacrity

• to detest or loath

• affectation

• agree to a demand

• abominate

• behavior or speech that is artificial

• affable

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• enthusiastic or passionate

• candour

• wary of taking risks

• cessation

• open and honest in expression

• circumspect

• severe disapproval

• ardent

• being brought to an end

• censure

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• intended to placate or pacify

• conciliatory

• create by skill

• contrive

• patronizing superiority

• cordial

• warm and friendly

• deign

• do something considered beneath someone

• condescension

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• talking or writing in a heartfelt way

• elude

• escape in a cunning way

• effusions

• deceive or trick

• dupe

• modesty or shyness

• dilatory

• slow to act

• diffidence

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• with speed and efficiency

• impertinent

• very attentive to details

• fastidious

• arrogantly disdainful

• expeditiously

• not showing proper respect; rude

• haughty

• unoriginal or overused

• hackneyed

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• insulting, abusive language

• hauteur

• grossly unfair and morally wrong

• invectives

• clever, original

• ingenious

• rash, no thought to consequences

• iniquitous

• disdainful pride

• imprudent

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• relating to money

• officious

• asserting authority in an annoying way

• pecuniary

• deserving praise

• laconic

• a bow or a curtsy

• obeisance

• using very few words

• laudable

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• a light horse-drawn carriage

• phaeton

• subject to extreme stress

• racked

• conforming to standards of behavior

• pedantic

• wasteful use of resources

• profligate

• excessively concerned with minor details

• propriety

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• feeling of intense pleasure or joy

• reproofs

• expression of blame

• rapture

• a daydream

• reverie

• give service or help

• render

• aggressive greed

• rapacity

Match the following terms with their definitions

• good judgement

• solicitude

• acting superior to others

• sagacity

• care or concern for someone

• supercilious

• attentive to details

• stricture

• critical remark or instruction

• scrupulous