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English TEWWG Vocab
58 cards·by hanajavelle
prostrating
to put in a humble state (verb)
promontories
a massive land overlooking a low land (noun)
fractious
irritable or peevish (adj)
commiserated
express sympathy (verb)
scorning
to treat as unworthy (verb)
ostentatiously
pretentiously or "showly" (adv)
brute
animal (noun)
resignation
surrender (n)
sodden
heavy with water (adj)
pugnacious
having a quarrelsome nature (adj)
relish
a quality that satisfies ones taste (adj)
frothing
foaming from the mouth in exhaustion (v)
inaudible
not capable of being heard (adj)
languid
weak (adj)
remorseless
having no compassion (adj)
sanctum
a scared or holy place (n)
shiftless
lazy (adj)
lacerate
to tear jaggedly (verb)
expound
to explain deeply (verb)
pulpit
a preaching position (n)
conjectures
conclusion (n)
malice
a desire to cause pain (n)
mien
demeanor (n)
portly
round, fat (adj)
sauntered
to walk in a leisurely manner (v)
jurisdiction
the power to govern (n)
brazen
made of bronze, bold (adj)
cowed
to bring to a state by intimidation (v)
temerity
audacity or nerve (n)
wallowing
to become emersed (v)
fodder
feed for live stock (n)
gumption
common sense (n)
distended
to swell, get bigger (v)
eulogy
a speech for the dead (n)
sullen
gloomy (adj)
hyperbole
exaggeration (n)
scoundrel
a disreputable person (n)
beseeching
to beg (v)
chasten
to correct by punishment (v)
fiend
a wicked person (n)
insinuation
a subtle hint (n)
dissolution
the act of disappearing (n)
rollicking
to frolic (v)
usurper
one who seizes illegally (n)
swaggered
to strut (v)
quench
to bring to an end by satisfying
temporize
to yield to current opinion (v)
transfiguration
a glorious change (n)
aromatic
smelling pleasantly (adj)
abyss
a deep gorge, hole (n)
pretense
a claiming (n)
broach
to make known (v)
dwindled
to become less (v)
hypocrite
a person whose actions contradict their beliefs (n)
phosphorescent
persistent emission of light
transient
a person traveling in search of work, nomadic (n)
clamored
to proclaim nosily (v)
suppressed
to keep from being revealed (v)