Honors 1984 Vocab List #1

Contrived

showing effects of planning or manipulation

Furtive

secret and sly

Specious

plausible but false

Vindictive

disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

Deride

treat or speak of with contempt

Gambol

play or run boisterously

Repudiate

refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize

Palimpsest

a manuscript on which more than one text has been written

Multifarious

having many aspects

Inextricable

incapable or being disentangled or untied

Reverberation

a remote or indirect consequences of some action

Racketeer

someone who commits crimes for profit

Indoctrinate

teach uncritically

Posterity

all future generations

Perpetually

everlasting; for all time

Pugnacious

ready and able to resort to force or violence

Lassitude

a feeling of lack of interest or energy

Incredulity

doubt about the truth of something

Prosaic

lacking wit or imagination

Gratuitous

unnecessary and unwarranted

Disconcerting

causing an emotional disturbance

Obeisance

bending the head or body in reverence or submission

Virtuosity

great technical skill, fluency, or style

Pretext

a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason

Susceptible

yielding readily to or capable of