Honors English Vocab Quiz 3

Cavort

To romp or prance around

Credence

Belief, mental acceptance

Decry

To condemn, expressing strong disapproval

Dissemble

To disguise or conceal

Distraught

Upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict

Eulogy

A formal statement of praise, usually at a funeral

Evince

To display clearly, to make evident

Exhume

To remove from a grave, to bring to light

Feckless

Lacking in spirit and strength, weak

Murky

Dark and gloomy

Nefariouss

Wicked

Piguant

Stimulating to the taste or mind, spicy, pingent

Primordial

Developed or created at the very beginning, going back

Propinquity

Nearness in place or time

Substantive

Real, having a solid basis

Unwonted

Not usual or expected, not in character

Utopian

Founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world

Verbiage

Language that is too wordy or inflated

Verdant

Green in tint or color, immature

Viscous

Having gelatinous or gluey quality.