Vocab Elective List 1: 41-52

Vocabulary flashcards covering terms 41 through 52 from the lecture notes.

navigable

Deep and wide enough for passage.

opaque

Blocking light; hard to see through or understand.

pariah

An outcast.

peccadillo

A minor offense.

peruse

To read or study.

poacher

One who hunts or fishes illegally; trespasser.

premature

Occurring before something is ready.

prevarication

Lying, falsehood.

prostrate

Lying flat, as in adoration or submission; to put (oneself) in a _____ position.

raucous

Harshly loud and disorderly

recollect

To remember.

relegate

To banish or assign to an inferior position.