Carnie Week 8 Vocab. (2nd Semester)

animus

hostility, animosity, enmity

apposite

fitting, suitable, appropriate

atelier

a workshop, an artist’s studio

callow

immature, inexperienced, unsophisticated

comity

mutual courtesy

contumacious

rebellious, insubordinate

counterpane

a bedspread, coverlet

cupidity

greed, avarice, rapacity

evanescent

vanishing, fleeting, impermanent

officious

meddlesome, intrusive

pertinacious

stubborn, persistent

pileous

hairy, furry

prolix

wordy, long-winded

punctilious

attentive to fine points, careful, precise

ukase

an edict, decree

to throw down the gauntlet

to challenge someone

feeling no pain

to be drunk

Hobson’s choice

to have no choice at all

to rule the roost

to be in charge, to be the master

suc-/suf-

from under

prim

first

-ology

study of