1984 Vocab Part 1

Salvador N.
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  1. garble
    distort or make false by mutilation or addition
  2. palimpsest
    a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
  3. gesticulate
    show, express, or direct through movement
  4. fulminate
    cause to explode violently and with loud noise
  5. mutability
    the quality of being capable of change
  6. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  7. ideological
    relating to the characteristic thinking of a group
  8. wispy
    thin and weak
  9. saboteur
    someone who deliberately destroys or disrupts something
  10. anodyne
    capable of relieving pain
  11. saccharine
    overly sweet
  12. aureole
    the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere
  13. implicate
    bring into intimate and incriminating connection
  14. debase
    make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  15. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  16. ordinate
    bring into proper or desirable coordination correlation
  17. multifarious
    having many aspects
  18. edify
    make understand
  19. nebulous
    lacking definite form or limits
  20. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  21. aquiline
    curved down like an eagle's beak
  22. ramification
    a consequence, especially one that causes complications
  23. pendant
    an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry
  24. etymology
    a history of a word
  25. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
Created on Sun Oct 14 22:25:47 EDT 2012 (updated Sun Oct 14 22:37:21 EDT 2012)

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