Vocab check 11

Aesthetic

pertaining to beauty ; sensitive or responsive to beauty

Asperity

roughness, severity; bitterness or tartness

Captious

(adj.) excessively ready to find fault; given to petty criticism; intended to trap, confuse, or show up

Delectable

an appealing or appetizing food or dish

Ebullient

(adj.) overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling

Espouse

(v.) to take up and support; to become attached to, adopt; to marry

Hapless

(adj.) marked by a persistent absence of good luck

Impecunious

having little or no money

Inexorable

inflexible, beyond influence; relentless, unyielding

Interpolate

(v.) to insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction

Languish

(v.) to become weak, feeble, or dull; to droop; to be depressed or dispirited; to suffer neglect

Machination

a crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end

Moratorium

(n.) a suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay

Obsequious

marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons

Opprobrium

(n.) disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt, reproach

Pariah

an outcast

Pittance

(n.) a woefully meager allowance, wage, or portion

Plaintive

(adj.) expressive of sorrow or woe, melancholy

Rebuff

(v.) to snub; to repel, drive away; (n.) a curt rejection, a check

Requite

(v.) to make suitable repayment, as for a kindness, service, or favor; to make retaliation, as for an injury or wrong; to reciprocate