AmStud Vocab Quiz 2

piquancy

the quality of being pleasantly stimulating or exciting

avaricious

having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain

inebriety

drunkenness, especially habitual; intoxication

actuated

cause (someone) to act in a particular way; motivate

impunity

exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action

hypocrisy

the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense

mercy

compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm

sepulchral

gloomy; dismal

approbation

approval or praise

taciturn

(of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

antipathy

a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion

hoary

(of a person) having gray or white hair; aged

attire

clothes, especially fine or formal ones

anathema

a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine

wrought

beaten out or shaped by hammering

hideous

extremely unpleasant

sagacious

having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd

illimitable

without limits or an end