English Vocab

  1. Laudable: (Adj.) -deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable. 

  2. Insidious: (Adj.) -intended to entrap or trick. 

  3. Repose: (N) -peace; tranquility; calm. 

  4. Debauch: (N) -an uninhibited spree or party. 

  5. Antecedent: (N) -a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon. 

  6. Ingratiate: (V) -to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others by deliberate effort. 

  7. Dilatory: (Adj.) -tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy. 

  8. Elusive: (Adj.) -hard to express or define; cleverly or skillfully evasive. 

Chapter 7 

  1. Tumult: (N) -uproar; disorder; highly distressing agitation of mind or feeling. 

  2. Portentous: (Adj.) -ominous, predictive of future bad events. 

  3. Irreverent: (Adj.) -not respectful; critical of what is generally accepted or respected. 

  4. Vicarious: (Adj.) -taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute. 

  5. Rancor: (N) -resentment or ill will; hatred; malice. 

  6. Formidable: (Adj.) -of great strength; forceful; powerful. 

Chapter 8 

  1. Humidor: (N) -a container or storage room for cigars or other preparations of tobacco, fitted with means for keeping the tobacco suitably moist. 

  2. Indiscernible: (Adj.) -cannot be seen or perceived clearly; imperceptible. 

  3. Settee: (N) -a seat for two or more persons, having a back and usually arms, and often upholstered. 

  4. In cahoots: (Phrase) -in partnership; in league with; in conspiracy. 

  5. Divot: (N) -a piece of turf gouged out with a club in making a stroke. 

  6. Garrulous: (Adj.) -excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, esp. about trivial matters. 

  7. Incoherent: (Adj.) -without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling. 

  8. Forlorn: (Adj.) -desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance. 

  9. Laden: (Adj.) -burdened; loaded down. 

  10. Pasquinade: (N) -a satire or lampoon, esp. one posted in a public place. 

  11. Derange: (V) -to disturb the condition, action, or function of; to make insane. 

  12. Surmise: (V) -to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess. 

  13. Superfluous: (Adj.) -being more than is sufficient or required; excessive; unnecessary or needless. 

  14. Elocution: (N) -a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public. 

  15. Unutterable: (Adj.) -unspeakable; beyond expression. 

  16. Orgastic: (Adj.) - at the height of emotional excitement. 

  17. Borne: (V) -carried. 

  18. Ceaselessly: (Adv.) -without stopping or pausing; unendingly; incessantly.