Lit End of Year All Vocab

Plume

A large, showy feather

Pugnacious

Having a quarrelsome or combative nature

Dilate

To enlarge

Sanctum

A holy or sacred place

Calyx

Sepals of a flower as a group

Expound

To elucidate

Mien

Air or bearing expressive of personality

Percale

A closely woven cotton fabric

Cow

To intimidate or make afraid

Temerity

Brazenness

Doleful

Very, very sad

Bray

To make a loud, harsh cry of a donkey

Fractious

Inclined to make trouble

Hammock

A tract of land rising above a marsh

Distended

Dilated

Decorum

Adherence to manners

Coquetry

Flirtation

Hackles

A feeling of anger or animosity

Dudgeon

An angry or indignant mood

Stolidness

The quality of showing little or no emotion

Pullet

A hen younger than a year

Scimitar

A curved Middle Eastern sword

Temporize

To act to suit the time

Newel

A vertical support of a spiral staircase

Flivver

A cheap, old car

Insensate

Lacking humane feeling

Preempt

To take for oneself

Disgorge

To vomit

Supplication

A request for aid to someone in power

Fetid

Really stinky

Thane

A feudal lord or baron in Scotland

Liege

A feudal superior to whom service and allegiance are due

Compunctious

Having a strong uneasiness caused by guilt

Husbandry

Conservation of natural resources

Prate

To talk idly at length

Surfeited

Fed beyond capacity

Posset

A spiced drink made from hot milk curdled with ale or wine

Incarnadine

To make blood-red

Equivocate

To be deliberately ambiguous in order to mislead

Countenance

To extend approval to

Suborn

To induce a person to commit evil

Benison

A blessing

Buffet

A blow, especially with the hand

Avouch

To confirm or corroborate

Vizard

A mask for disguise or protection

Nonpareil

A person/thing that has no equal

Chough

A crow like bird

Fenny

Marshy or boggy

Farrow

A litter of pigs

Gibbet

A gallows

Pernicious

Causing great harm

Avaracious

Immodestly desirous of wealth

Foison

A plentiful harvest

Interdiction

Authoritative prohibition

Niggard

A covetous, stingy person

Upbraid

To criticize severely

Purgative

Tending to cleanse or purge

Harbinger

An indication of the coming of something or someone

Bruit

To spread news of

Palter

To talk or act misleadingly

Ornery

Cantankerous, rude

Ambuscade

Ambush

Highfalutin

Pompous/ pretentious

Stanchion

Upright pole/post

Nabob

Middle East figure of importance and wealth

Fantods

A state of nervous irritability

Reticule

A drawstring handbag

Careen

To swerve to the side while in motion

Rapscallion

A rascal

Towhead

A sandbar in a river

Infernal

Of or relating to Hell

Decanter

A decorative vessel used to transfer liquid

Pommel

The upper front part of a saddle

Cavort

To romp around

Scow

A large flat bottom boat for transporting freight

Temperance

Abstinence from alcohol

Phrenology

Study of the skull to reveal mental capacity and character

Dauphin

The eldest son of the king of France

Dissipate

To separate into parts and disappear

Histrionic

Excessively dramatic

Benefactor

One who gives (financial) aid

Imperataive

Necessary

Sanctify

To make holy

Doxology

An expression of praise to God

Passel

A large quantity

Obsequy

Funeral rite

Harrow

A farm implement to even off plowed ground

Sluice

An opening through which anything flows

Audacious

Unrestrained by propriety

Scutcheon

A coat of arms borne on a shield

Dross

Waste or impure matter

Albatross

A large web-footed seabird

Lineament

A distinctive shape, contour, or line (of the face)

Syndic

A civil magistrate in Europe

Chimerical

Of or as if by wildly fanciful imagination

Tryo

A beginner at learning something

Reprobate

To condemn

Panegyric

Elaborate praise/laudation

Dun

Having a brownish grey color

Lassitude

The state or feeling of weariness