Sunday, September 8, 2013

Vocab #3

1) Accomplice  -a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing 
2) Annihilate -to destroy the collective existence or main body of; destroy utterly 
3) Arbitrary -subject to individual will or judgement without restriction 
4) Brazen -shameless or impiadent 
5) Catalyst -a person or thing that precipitates  an event or change
6) Exodus -a going out a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people
7) Facilitate -to make easier or less difficult; help forward, to assist the progress
8) Incorrigible -bad beyond correction or reform
9) Latent -present but not visible, apparent, existing as potential
10) Militant -vigorously active and aggresive, especially in support of a cause
11) Morose -gloomily or sullenly ill, humored as a person or mood
12) Opaque -not transparent or translucent; imprnetrable to light
13) Paramount -chief in importance or impact; supreme above others in rank or authority
14) Prattle -to talk in a foulish or simple-minded way
15) Rebut -to refute by evidence or argument to oppose by contrary proof
16) Reprimand -a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority
17) Servitude -slavery or bondage of any kind
18) Slapdash -in a hasty manner, careless
19) Stagnant -not flowing or running as water, air stale or foul from standing
20) Succumb- to give way to superior force; to yield to disease, wounds, old age


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