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Grisly List 61-85
Vocab Words.
50
Language - English
11th Grade
10/13/2009

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Ponderous
Definition
Heavy and bulky or labored and dull
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Pontificating
Definition
To speak in a pompous and dogmatic style.
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Prevaricating
Definition
To avoid telling the truth, to equivocate, to be evasive.
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Profane
Definition
Shows disrespect for sacred things
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Prosaic
Definition
Like prose and hence, lacking the imagination of poetry
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Puerile
Definition
A person that acts silly, immature, and childish
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Purloining
Definition
To steal, but has the added connotation of breaking faith in the act of stealing
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Quavering
Definition
To tremble from fear or anxiety and can also be used to describe one who speaks in a trembling voice
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Quibbling
Definition
To evade the main point by emphasizing some petty detail
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Quixotic
Definition
Extravagantly chivalrous or impractical
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Rank
Definition
Can mean stinking, flagrant, absolute or growing excessively
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Recidivistic
Definition
Person who habitually relapes into former criminal or antisocial behavior
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Recriminating
Definition
To make counter-accusations when confronted with someone accusing you
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Reneging
Definition
To make a promise and then back out
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Reticent
Definition
Someone who is either habitually silent or unwilling to talk
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Roguish
Definition
Like a rogue; dishonest or playfully mischievous
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Sacrilegious
Definition
To be disrespectful to anything sacred
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Santimonious
Definition
Someone who struts around with a hypocritical show of piety
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Scampish
Definition
Mischievous, puckish, or impish
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Scrimping
Definition
To save money to try to make ends meet
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Sectarian
Definition
A group that is narrow minded
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Sedentary
Definition
Anyone who doesn't budge and is always sitting
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Servile
Definition
Act like a slave
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Sinister
Definition
Devious and wicked
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Skulking
Definition
To move about in a sneaking or cowardly way, or to hide and wait for some evil purpose
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Slothful
Definition
A person that is either lazy or slow
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Solipsistic
Definition
A person that waxes philosophical about how only the self exists
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Specious
Definition
Anything that looks good but is actually false, deceptive
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Squandering
Definition
To spend wastefully
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Stentorian
Definition
Anyone who is excessively loud, speaking with a deafening roar
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Stringent
Definition
To impose rigorous standards and rigid control
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Superfluous
Definition
Excessive and needless to what is required
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Surreptitious
Definition
To act in a secret, stealthy way
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Tautological
Definition
To be redundant or needlessly repeat an idea using different words
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Tawdry
Definition
Cheap, showy and sleazy
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Testy
Definition
A person whom is irritably impatient and touchy
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Timorous
Definition
To tremble, to be fearful, to be tentative
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Turgid
Definition
Means swollen and can also be used metaphorically, being 'swollen' as in bombastic and pompous
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Ulterior
Definition
Undisclosed or hidden
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Unctuous
Definition
Means oily or smooth and deceitful
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Ungainly
Definition
Uncoordinated and unattractive
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Unscrupulous
Definition
A person without morals or conscience
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Vainglorious
Definition
A person who is high and mighty, boastful and conceited
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Venal
Definition
Anyone who is capable of being bribed and corrupted
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Vicarious
Definition
A person who is thrilled by imagined participation watching another's experience, as when a fan gets a thrill watching a sports team win a game.
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Virulent
Definition
Someone or something that is posionous or infectious; can also be used to describe one who is spiteful
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Vitriolic
Definition
Anyone who is sharp, bitter and biting; oil of vitriol is sulfuric acid
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Waggish
Definition
One given to droll, roguish humor
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Wheedling
Definition
To influence by flattery or guile
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Xenophobic
Definition
Fearful of strangers or contamination from the outside, or they have contempt for foreigners
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