Vocab List #5

1. Adj: presumptuously, obtusely, and often noisily self-assertive

1. Verb: to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)

2. Verb: to quote by way of example, authority, or proof

3. Verb: to refer to (esp. to mention formally in commendation or praise); to name in a citation

1. Adj: being in agreement or harmony: free from elements making for discord

1. Noun: lack of agreement or harmonity (as between persons, things, or ideas); active quarreling or conflict resulting from discord among persons or factions

2. Noun: something invariable or unchanging as: a number that has a fixed value in a given situation or universally or that is characteristic of an instrument or substance; a number that is assumed not to change value in a given mathematical discussion; a term in logic with a fixed designation

1. Verb: to utter taunting words; to deride or tease with taunting words

1. Noun: a quick and witty reply; a succession or interchange of clever retorts; amusing and usu. light sparring with words

2. Noun: adroitness and cleverness in reply

1. Adj: excerpt or nimble in the use of the hands or body

2. Adj: cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious

3. Noun: skill in making such replies

1. Noun: the elements or first principles of a subject; a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or underdeveloped or imperfect form of something

2. Noun: an organ or part incompletely developed in size or structure, as one in an embryonic stage, one arrested in growth, or one with no functional activity, as a vestige

1. Noun: authoritative permission or approval, as for an action

2. Noun: something that serves to support an action, condition, etc.

3. Noun: something gives binding force, as an oath, rule of conduct, etc.

4. Noun: a provision of law enacting a penalty for disobedience or a reward for disobience

5. Noun: action by one or more states toward another state calculated to force it to comply with legal obligations

6. Verb: to authorize, approve, or allow

7. Verb: to ratify or confirm

8. Verb: to impose a sanction on; penalize, especially by way of discipline

1. Verb: to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit

2. Verb: to satisfy to the full; state

1. Adj: serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate

2. Adj: servile; excessively submissive; obsequious

1. Adj: slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning

2. Adj: characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject

3. Adj: yielding slavishly; truckling

4. Adj: extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality

5. Adj: being in slavery; oppressed

3. Adj: useful in promoting a purpose or end

1. Adj: lively; animated; gay

1. Adj: pleasing in appearance; attractive; fair

2. Adj: proper; seemly; becoming

1. Noun: the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay

2. Noun: moral degeneration or decay; turpitude

3. Noun: unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence

4. Noun: the decadent movement in literature

1. Noun: vile, shameful, or base character; depravity

2. Noun: a vile or depraved act

1. Adj: containing error; mistaken; incorrect; wrong

2. Adj: straying from what is moral, decent, proper, etc.

1. Verb: to praise or display conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly

2. Verb: to wave conspicuously in the air

3. Verb: to parade or display ostentatiously

4. Verb: to ignore or treat with disdain

5. Noun: the act of flaunting

6. Noun: something flaunted

1. Adj: excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical

1. Adj: easily provoked to anger; very irritable

2. Adj: characterized or produced by anger

1. Adj: depraved, villainous, or base

2. Adj: holding a false or unorthodox religious belief; heretical

3. Noun: a vicious or depraved person; villain

4. Noun: a heretic or infidel

1. Adj: characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others

2. Adj: (of actions, manner, qualities exhibited, etc.) intended to attract notice

1. Adj: characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved

2. Adj: making an exaggerated and outward show; ostentatious

3. Adj: full of pretense or pretension

1. Noun: a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal

2. Noun: a plate made by this process

3. Noun: a set form; convention

4. Noun: a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group

5. Verb: to make a stereotype of

6. Verb: to characterize or regard as a stereotype

7. Verb: to give a fixed form to