vocab test #1 - 9/9/22

acrimony

sharp animosity, harshness, or bitterness

credulity

gullibility, readiness to believe without evidence

erudite

learned, showing profound knowledge of

furtive

stealthy, sly, shifty

hone

sharpen, whet, file, grind

calumny

slander, lies to damage another's reputation

jocularity

state of being playful, jesting, characterized by joking

prodigious

enormous, extraordinary in size or degree

martial

warlike, pertaining to war

panegyric

formal eulogy, or commendation

sartorial

of or about tailors or tailoring

soliloquy

talking as is alone; utterance by a person talking to himself

supplant

remove, replace, overthrow

wane

diminish, abate, decrease

ambivalent

having opposing feelings or desires