year 4

rachelle R.
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  1. acrimony
    a rough and bitter manner
  2. amalgamate
    bring or combine together or with something else
  3. arcane
    requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
  4. askance
    with suspicion or disapproval
  5. bastion
    projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
  6. bedlam
    a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  7. blithe
    carefree and happy and lighthearted
  8. catapult
    an engine providing medieval artillery used during sieges
  9. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  10. cornucopia
    a horn filled with fruit and grain symbolizing prosperity
  11. cull
    remove something that has been rejected
  12. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  13. derision
    the act of treating with contempt
  14. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  15. dilatory
    wasting time
  16. dissenter
    a person who objects to some established policy
  17. dissonance
    disagreeable sounds
  18. efficacious
    giving the power to produce an intended result
  19. ethos
    the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era
  20. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  21. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  22. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  23. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  24. insouciance
    a casual or lighthearted feeling of unconcern
  25. mar
    cause to become imperfect
  26. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  27. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  28. nuisance
    anything that disturbs, endangers life, or is offensive
  29. panache
    distinctive and stylish elegance
  30. pandemonium
    a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  31. penultimate
    next to the last
  32. periphery
    the outside boundary or surface of something
  33. persnickety
    characterized by excessive attention to trivial details
  34. plethora
    extreme excess
  35. prevaricator
    a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
  36. pulchritude
    physical beauty, especially of a woman
  37. quagmire
    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  38. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  39. reverberate
    ring or echo with sound
  40. saccharine
    overly sweet
  41. seraphic
    having a sweet nature befitting an angel
  42. sobriety
    the state of being unaffected or not intoxicated by alcohol
  43. soporific
    inducing sleep
  44. stentorian
    very loud or booming
  45. turgid
    ostentatiously lofty in style
Created on Sun Aug 07 19:37:53 EDT 2011

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