week 10 carnie vocab

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abjure

to renounce, recant, forswear, retract

canard

a false story, groundless report

capacious

roomy, spacious

cavil

to quibble, carp

cogent

convincing, forceful, compelling

confiture

jam, preserve, confection

demur

object, take exception

diaphanous

translucent, transparent

efface

to wipe out, obliterate, erase

firmament

the heavens, sky, celestial sphere

halcyon

tranquil, calm, peaceful

inimical

hostile, antagonistic, harmful, adverse

mendacious

lying, untruthful, dishonest

nonplussed

perplexed, puzzled, baffled

penurious

needy, poor, stingy, miserly

prepossessing

attractive, pleasing

prosaic

like prose, commonplace, matter-of-fact, ordinary, dull

rapacious

greedy, grasping, blundering

revile

to abuse, rail against, denounce, malign

risible

funny, laughable, ludicrous

seditious

rebellious, insubordinate, mutinous

supercilious

haughty, disdainful, arrogant

torpor

sluggishness, lethargy, lassitude

tumid

swollen, distended, bloated

unctuous

oily, slippery, greasy