List 7A-9B: Vocab
Concurrent
1. Happening together at the same time or place 2. In accordance or agreement.
Collateral
1. Running side by side, parallel 2. Of a secondary nature
Contention
1. Striving together in opposition, especially in verbal controversy 2. A point maintained in a argument
Embellish
1. To add decorative details 2. To add fictions details
Balk
1. To stop short and refuse to go on 2. To render impossible of accomplishment by some obstacle or hindrance
Dotage
1. Weak-mindedness, especially from old age 2. Foolish affection; excessive fondness
Qualm
A feeling of doubt, fear, or uneasiness; a pang of conscience
Compunction
A pricking or stinging of the conscience; uneasiness of mind because of sin or wrongdoing
Consummation
Act of completion or bringing to perfection
Compatible
Capable of existing together
Contingent
Dependent on or upon some preceding occurrence or condition
Lithe
Easily or gracefully bent; pliant
Complacent
Feeling or showing satisfaction, sometimes to a fault; self-satisfied
Cogent
Having power to compel assent or belief
Benighted
Involved in intellectual or moral darkness
Harbinger
One who or that which goes before and announces the coming of something.
Dastardly
Showing despicable cowardice
Contrition
Sincere sorrow for sin
Slough
TO cast off; shred; discard as unwanted
Condole
TO express sympathy with another in his affliction; to grieve with
Vouchsafe
TO grant or bestow in a gracious or condescending manner; permit
Corrode
Ti be eaten away gradually, as by chemical action
Appease
To bring peace, often by satisfying demands
Condescend
To come down voluntarily to the level of something inferior
Censure
To express disapproval or condemnation
Commiserate
To feel, show, or express pity or compassion for; to sympathize with
Enamor
To inflame with love; to charm, fascinate
Foemt
To keep people or conditions agitated; to stir up or stimulate, especially in a bad sense
Inveigle
To lead astray or win over by guile or flattery
Abate
To lessen in fore or intensity
Quail
To lose courage or heart; to shrink from in fear; to cower
Impugn
To oppose or attack with criticism or arguments; to challenge the truth, validity or correctness of
Feign
To put on or give a false appearance of; to fabricate
Foray
To ravage in search of spoils
Divulge
To reveal a secret; to make known
Askance
With a side glance; with a lok of mistrust, jealousy, or disapproval
