English

  1. Innuendo
    Hidden meaning
  2. entreaties
    request
  3. censure
    criticism
  4. Veracity
    truthfulness
  5. Declivity
    slope
  6. ligatures
    cord used for binding
  7. prodigious
    amazingly large
  8. soporiferous
    designed to cause sleep
  9. expedient
    solution
  10. Deportment
    Behavior
  11. Impertinence
    Disrespect
  12. rabble
    unwashed masses
  13. clemency
    mercy
  14. lucid
    clear
  15. diversion
    a form of entertainment
  16. prostrating
    put self on stomach, submissive position
  17. garret
    an attic
  18. conjecture
    guess
  19. intestine
    internal
  20. puissant
    powerful
  21. encomiums
    terms of praise
  22. treatise
    a detailed academic paper on one subject
  23. extenuation
    a factor that lessens or explain's ones guilt
  24. concupiscence
    lust
  25. docility
    manageable behavior
  26. rudiemnts
    beginnings
  27. auspicious
    successful or prosperous
  28. posterity
    one's descendants
  29. inundation
    a flood
  30. maxims
    concise, wise sayings
  31. cabal
    secret group of conspirators
  32. stile
    a series of steps for crossing a wall or a fence
  33. mortification
    a source of embarrassment or shame
  34. nauseous
    making one sick to the stomach
  35. rogue
    a scoundrel
  36. demeanor
    a carriage or bearing; the way one presents oneself
  37. austere
    stern
  38. copious
    voluminous, excessive in amount
  39. drudgery
    grueling, unchanging routine
  40. contrivance
    design and manufacture
  41. diminutive
    small
  42. malefactor
    a criminal
  43. sagacity
    wisdom
Author
Vonage93
ID
42787
Card Set
English
Description
10/19/10
Updated