Random vocab duel

Prate to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion

Protestations

Beseeching ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.

Quintessential representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class

well-being, prosperity, or happiness

stop

Felicity happiness; bliss

face to face

Compendium

Syntactic based on grammar

Heteroclite

Counterfactual relating to or expressing what has not happened or is not the case, can be a guess or a hypothetical

chauvinist someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which they belong

Augur

Arbor

Iconoclastic attacking cherished traditions

Curtail

Poesy idk how its different from polemic tbh

Physiognomy (n.) - the art of judging human character from facial features

Saecula Saeculorum Unto the ages of ages; eternity

Procreant producing offspring

relating to the everyday world as opposed to that which is spiritual or eternal

Conciliar relating to or proceeding from a council, especially an ecclesiastical one.

Polity

Ignominy (n.) shame and disgrace

controversy; argument; verbal attack

Tract

Cogent

Skeuomorphic

Pendent

(adj.) peculiar to one person; highly individualized (I know you had trouble with the last test, but because your mistakes were highly idiosyncratic, I'm going to deny your request that the class be given a new test.)

gnomic

Prate

Quixotic overly idealistic; impractical

(adj.) secret, concealed; underhanded

brief, comprehensive summary

Leige

Jocund cheerful and lighthearted

An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements

Acquiscence agreement without protest

Protestations

Ad Hominem a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute

before the fact

Vis-a-vis face to face

please

Felicity happiness; bliss

Derision ridicule; mockery

Phrenology the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities.

penetrating, cutting, biting, remarkably clear and direct; keen, acute

Idiosyncrasies minor peculiarities of personal behavior

Parsimony

out-of-date, not attributed to the correct historical period

design concept of making items represented resemble their real-world counterparts

Pursuant in conformance to or agreement with

Augur someone who predicts future events according to omens

Quintessential representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class

Acrimony ill-natured, bitter hostility

Deleterious harmful, injurious

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