English - LOTF Vocab 2

Uncompromising

adj: showing an unwillingness to make concessions to others; especially by changing one’s ways or opinions

Recrimination

n: an accusation in response to one from someone else

Quota

n: a fixed share of something that a person or group is entitled to receive or is bound to contribute

Fulcrum

n: the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in a moving a body

Cessation

n: a temporary or complete stopping; discontinued

Truculent

adj: fierce; cruel; savagely brutal

Daunted

v: to overcome with fear; intimidate; to lessen the courage of; dishearten

Festooned

n: a string or a chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points

Vicissitude

n: a change or variation occurring in the course of something

Corpulent

adj: large or bulky body; portly; stout; fat

Buffet

v: a blow, as with the hand or fist; a violent shock or concussion

Parody

n: a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing

v: to imitate (a composition, author, etc.) for purposes of ridicule or satire

Covert

adj: concealed; secret; disguised

n: a shelter of hiding place

Assimilate

v: take in information, ideas, or cultures and understand fully, cause (something) to resemble; liken

Detrius

n: rock in small particles or other materials worn or broken away from amass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.

Ensconce

v:  to settle securely or snugly

Inimical

adj: adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful

Ludicrous

adj: causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision;ridiculous; laughable

Propitiatingly

v:  to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate

Immured

v: to enclose within walls,to shut in; seclude or confine to imprison