1984 Vocab List #2

Dissemble

To disguise, to pretend

Dissemination

The act of spreading widely, scattering

Dissipation

Wasteful spreading

Eddy

A current of air or water moving contrary to the main current (circularly)

Edifying

Instructing and improving spiritually or morally

Embed

To enclose firmly in some mass

Empirical

Based on observation or experiment and not on theory

Enunciate

To pronounce clearly

Execrable

Extremely bad, deserving of hate

Fallible

Capable of making an error

Fatuous

Foolish, silly in an obnoxious way, inane

Fecund

Capable of reproducing, intellectual productivity

Forbearance

Patience, lenience

Gambol

To playfully skip or leap

Hedonist

One who seeks pleasure as the sole aim in life

Heretical

Contrary to church doctrine or accepted beliefs or standards

Impregnable

Incapable of being taken by assault, of being broken into or escaped from

Incurious

Uninterest, lacking normal curiosity

Indefatigable

Tireless, incapable of being fatigued

Inert

Unable to move or to act, sluggish

Inimical

Having the disposition or temper of any enemy

Insidious

Treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way

Knoll

A small round hill

Lassitude

Feeling of weariness; fatigue

Malign

To utter injuriously misleading reports about