Carnie - Week 12 Vocab

Ablution

a cleansing or washing of the body, usually for religious reasons

Abnegation

self-denial, renunciation, eschewal

Abrade

to wear away, erode, scrape, chafe

Abstruse

hard to understand, obscure, mysterious

Amenable

Submissive, obedient, responsive, responsible

Ascetic

austere, self-denying

Bellicose

belligerent, warlike, combative

Benign

kindly, gracious; favorable

Celerity

swiftness, quickness, rapidity

Credulous

gullible, overly trusting

Paradigm

a model, example, pattern

Sequester

to isolate, segregate, seclude

Stodgy

dull, pompous, stuffy; lacking in humor

or lightness

Suffuse

to overspread, spread through

Vilify

to slander, defame, malign

To do one’s heart good

to make one feel happy or better

Worth one’s weight in gold

extremely valuable, very useful

To make the best of a bad bargain

to change or go along with a poor situation

To make ends meet

to manage on a given income

ex-

out of, from

geo-

earth

meter, metr

measure

-ic

relating to, characteristic