Lit Vocab 5

Chimera

Imaginary monster compounded of different parts

Complacent

Satisfied with self you stop trying and don’t notice dangers

Complaisant

Marked by an inclination to please or oblige

Dissident

Disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system

Empirical

Relying on experience or observation alone often without regard for theory or logic

Encomium

Glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise

Hirsute

Covered with hair, hairy

Intestate

Having made no valid will (will as in document talking about what to do with assets and property)

Lethal

Capable of causing death

Lugubrious

Exaggeratedly mournful

Megalomaniac

Someone who has a strong obsession with power and control OR someone who suffers from delusions of extreme personal importance

Meretricious

Tastefully showy and falsely attractive

Modicum

A small portion, limited quantity

Pyromaniac

A person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires

Sacrilegious

Showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object

Solecism

An ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence

Soporific

Drug that induces sleep or drowsiness

Styptic

Drug applied to stop/slow bleeding by contracting organic tissue/blood vessels

Subversive

Having a tendency to overthrow, upset, or destroy

Turgid

Exessively embellished in style or language