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Vocab List #9
Iconoclastic
(noun)
Ensconce
(verb)
"If you steal it, St. Ives will not bruit the matter abroad.
One opposed to the religious use of images or advocating the destruction of such images
Rumor or to spread a report of
Bruit
(noun/verb)
To hide; conceal; shelter
Dictum
"The Witch didn't much care, but she wasn't inclined to accept a unilateral dictum without a retort.
A statement or saying, esp. a formal statement
On the U. S. shows, real estate agents are kindly angels working selflessly to ensconce families in happy nests.
(noun)
Kyger is an individual, a humorist, even an iconoclast ,
in her own quiet way.
Internecine
(adj.)
In Medias
Res
Her latest collection of short stories offers not only the poetry of Roberts's exquisite sensibilities but a saturnalian experience: the theatre of action is the dirt under our feet and fingernails, the unmediated matter of life and death
Of the Saturnalian or riotously merry or orgiastic
Saturnalian
(adj.)
Full of slaughter or destruction
But it seemed as if the relationship between Colonel Linnear and Mikio Okami ran deeper than a mere business quid pro quo.
In the middle of the action rather than at the beginning, as in commencing an epic
One thing in return for another
Quid pro quo
It suggests a level influence likely to cause jealousy in the internecine world of Afghan military affairs.
The Odyssey
Abortive
(adj.)
At the bottom of the track leading up to the bluff, a single Jeep made repeated, abortive attempts to climb up to them.
Contumelious
(adj.)
Coming to nothing
Rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
A well-reasoned thesis that merited more than just a scornful, contumelious response
By mid-morning he reached the most salubrious part of Talabar, closest to the harbour and the Summer Palace.
Promoting health or welfare; healthful, wholesome, salutary, etc.
Salubrious
(adj.)
Chee had watched her, examining her grief for some sign of pretense and thinking that her prescience was hardly remarkable.
Prescience
(noun)
Apparent knowledge of things before they happen or come into being; foreknowledge
Traumatic
(noun)
Touchstone
(noun)
Emotionally disturbing or distressing.
Any test of genuineness or value
The car crash was a traumatic experience for me
I chose Jay, and I chose intensity as the touchstone of my life.
Modulate
(verb)
Dion's voice is a strong instrument with terrific range, and on New Day she has even learned to modulate it.
To regulate, adjust, or adapt to the proper degree
Maladroit
(adj.)
Awkward; clumsy; bungling
Bush knows all too well his father's maladroit efforts to
express political remorse.
Vitiate
Waggish
(adj.)
(verb)
To make imperfect, faulty, or impure; spoil; corrupt
Like, characteristic of, or befitting a wag; roguishly merry
That the singer, Cervantes ' Don Quixote, is certainly delusional, possibly mad, doesn't vitiate the song's potency.
You can combine an hour in the pool with an hour of massage on the table - "surf and turf," one waggish client calls it.
It is rising out of the haze in the hills, still nearly full, a
portentous , smoky orange.
That portends evil; ominous or arousing awe or
amazement; marvelous
Portentous
(adj.)
Maudlin
(adj.)
Foolishly and tearfully or weakly sentimental
Ramses and David stepped out of the way and as the men staggered past they heard a maudlin , off-key reference to someone's dear old mother.