Carnie Week 9 Vocab. (2nd Semester)

benighted

ignorant

captious

faultfinding, carping

dilatory

slow, tardy, causing delay

doyen

the senior member

epigone

an imitator, a follower

febrile

feverish

friable

crumbly, brittle

gelid

icy, very cold

lacuna

a gap, hole, empty space

moribund

dying, obsolescent

nugatory

worthless, ineffectual

recalcitrant

rebellious, reliant

sacerdotal

priestly

saturnine

gloomy

turpitude

depravity, baseness

I’m from Missouri

a skeptic, one who is not easily influenced

red letter day

a day of happiness, time for rejoicing

to let sleeping dogs lie

to let well enough alone, to avoid stirring up old hostilities

thumbs down

signal of rejection

sug-/sum-

from, under

rupt

break, burst

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person