Vocab test

Behemoth

A huge or monstrous creature

Arbitrate

Reach an authoritative judgment or settlement

Garish

Ugly in a flashy way

Placate

To calm down someone down

Substantiate

To back up and provide evidence 

Daft

British term for crazy

Culing

Reduction by selective slaughter or rejecting

Tensile

Stretchy

Inconsequential

Unimportant

Ingots

Nugget

Penchant

A tendency or strong habitual liking for something

Usurp

To seize, to take a position of power by force

Accolade

An award or an honor

Imperious

Arrogant, domineering without merit

Pallid

Pale

Veritable

True, genuine

Ilk

A type/a kind, usually negative 

Denizens

Inhabitant

Cur

Insult for a man, an aggressive dog

Effeminacy

Femininity in a man, with a negative connotation

Pernicious

Wicked, evil, clever/subtle evil, cunning