1984 Vocab List #3

Melancholy

Depression of spirits

Meritorious

Deserving of honor or praise

Musty

Smelling of damp or decay, malodorous

Mutability

The degree to which something is subject and likely to change

Nebulous

Lacking clarity of feature or sharpness of outline

Oblique

Slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading

Odious

Deserving of hate or contempt

Omnipotent

Having unlimited power

Ossify

To change or to harden into bone, to be rigidly conventional

Palpable

Tangible, perceptible, easily noticeable

Parody

Humorous or ridiculous imitation

Partisan

One who exhibits extreme or possibly blind allegiance to a group or cause

Pendant

Something suspended, hanging down from something

Philology

Study of literature, especially language used in literature

Pneumatic

Pertaining to air or gas

Prevarication

Evasiveness, lie

Prodigious

Extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree, great in size, enormous

Proliferation

An increase in number, multiplication

Protuberance

The state of bulging beyond the surrounding area; protrusion

Pugnacious

Looking for a fights, combative, belligerent

Remonstrate

To protest, to make objections

Repudiate

To reject, to disown, to disavow

Reverie

Daydreaming

Saboteur

One that destroys property ot normal operations (usually in a war effort)

Scuttle

To sink (usually a ship)