Vocab 6

abominable – repugnantly hateful; very unpleasant, detestable, loathsome

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abscond – to leave secretly and hide

capitulate – to surrender

castigate – to punish or subdue with punishment; to criticize with drastic severity

comatose – lethargic, unconscious

consolidate – to make solid; to unit, or to merge

despondency – depression, dejection

destitution – the state of being extremely poor; in extreme want

eddy –a current or air or water moving contrary to the main current

enfranchise – to give or bestow something such as the right to vote or citizenship

ennoble – to elevate to raise in rank

fecund – capable of reproducing; intellectual productivity

inebriation – drunkenness, intoxication

inopportune – inconvenient, poorly timed

inviolable – secure from violation or from being profaned

nonchalance – indifference or showing of little interest

prevarication – evasiveness or  lie

primordial – original, existing at the beginning (usually relates to time)

punctilious – stressing precise following of instructions, details, codes or conduct

remonstrate – to protest, to make objections

rudimentary – consisting in first principles, of a primitive kind; relating to basic skills

sonnet – a fourteen line form or poetry

tantamount – equivalent in value or significance

turgid - swollen

vestigial – something in an underdeveloped form