Carnie - Week 3 Vocab (2nd. Semester)

acerbity

sourness; acidity of taste or manner

bucolic

pastoral, rustic

buffet

to strike, hit, batter, beat, thrash

calumny

slander, detraction, defamation

craven

cowardly, pusillanimous

detritus

debris

didactic

instructive, pedantic

incipient

beginning, commencing, initial

pithy

terse, concise, cogent

prevaricate

to lie; equivocate

puerile

childish, juvenile, foolish

rarefied

exalted, elevated, esoteric

sangfroid

composure, equanimity, self-possession, imperturbability

succor

aid, assistance, relief

trenchant

incisive, keen, effective

achilles heel

weak spot

forty winks

a short nap

from pillar to post

from one place to another

in the lap of the gods

out of one’s own hands

ir-

not, in

manu-

hand

nym

name

-ice

of or relating to