Lit Vocab 3

Aberration

The fact or an instance of deviating, especially from moral standard or normal state

Abrasion

A wearing, grinding, or rubbing away by friction

Acrimonious

Angry and bitter, especially in feeling, language, or manner

Acumen

Clarity of mind and depth of perception

Aegis

A shield or breastplate, protection

Besetting

Constantly present or attacking

Brackish

Somewhat salty, not appealing to taste

Callow

Lacking adult sophistication, immature

Captious

Marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections

Compendious

Marked by brief expression of a comprehensive matter

Complicity

Association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act

Cynosure

The northern star, one that serves to direct or guide

Defalcation

Intentional or reckless misuse of funds in violation of duty

Endemic

Native to a particular locality or region

Extradite

To formally surrender an accused or convicted person

Forensic

Belonging to courts of judicature OR relating to or dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal problems

Fulminate

To utter or send out with denunciation

Indenture

Formal document executed between two or more parties

Protagonist

Principal character in literary work

Vituperation

Harsh, bitter, and abusive language or violent criticism