act vocab

dissemble

(verb) to hide by pretending something different

partisan

(noun/adj) characterized by/exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party

calumny

(noun) slander

prodigious

(adj) immense

contiguous

(adj) touching/joining at the edge or boundary

inculcate

(verb) to teach by frequent repetition

abrogate

(verb) to abolish/repeal

malevolence

(noun) ill will

lascivious

(adj) lustful

discomfit

(verb) to put into a state of confusion

ameliorate

(verb) to relieve as from pain/hardship

pious

(adj) religious

deposition

(noun) testimony legally taken on interrogations and reduced to writing for use as evidence in court

effrontery

(noun) shamelessness

immaculate

(adj) without spot or blemish

probity

(noun) integrity

apparition

(noun) ghost

guile

(noun) craft/cunning

conciliatory

(adj) tending to reconcile

adamant

(adj) hard-hearted or unyielding

purist

(noun) one who is concerned with maintaining tradition

importune

(verb) to harass with persistent demands

complaisant

(adj) agreeable/willing to please others

miserly

(adj) saving/hoarding money

asperity

(noun) harshness/roughness of temper

expostulation

(noun) a discussion

supercilious

(adj) exhibiting haughty/careless contempt

impute

(verb) to attribute

panegyric

(noun) high praise either written or spoken

pique

(verb) to arouse interest in

taciturn

(adj) disinclined to conversation

diffidence

(noun) self distrust

affable

(adj) characterized by ease/friendliness

obsequious

(adj) exhibiting a fawning attentiveness, subservient

atonement

(noun) reparation for an offense/injury

deigned

(verb) to do something considered to be beneath one’s dignity

odious

(adj) hateful

licentious

(adj) lacking legal/moral restraint

encumbrance

(noun) impediment/burden

duplicity

(noun) deceptive in words/actions

assiduous

(adj) showing great care/perserverance

sagacity

(noun) keen understanding/precision

derision

(noun) the use of ridicule/scorn to show contempt

sequ

to follow

sed, sid, sess

to sit

super

over/above

pan

all

fid

faith

tang, tact, tig, tag

touch

mal

bad