Shores Week 11 vocab terms

Superfluous

Being more than is sufficient or required; excessive. Unnecessary or needles

Spontaneity

The state, quality, or fact of being spontaneous, which meaning coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned

Vindicate

To clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like. To afford justification for; justify. To uphold or justify by arrangement or evidence

Tact

A keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations. A keen sense of what’s appropriate, tasteful, or aesthetically pleasing; taste. or discrimination

Prattle

To talk in a foolish or simple minded way; chatter, babble

Trudge

To walk, especially laboriously or wearily

Genuflect

To bend 1 knee or touch 1 knee to the floor in reverence or worship. To express a servile attitude

Lucrative

Profitable, moneymaking, remunerative

Virile

Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a man; masculine, mainly. Of relating to, or capable of procreation

Abrogate

To abolish by formal or official means; annual by an authoritative act, repeal. To put aside; put an end to.