Random vocab duel

Garish (adj.) glaring; tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way

Querulous (adj.) peevish, complaining, fretful

Infantile childish; immature

Tract to drag

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

Obeisance a bow or similar gesture expressing deep respect

Sardonic grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic

celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking

Antedated

Curtail cut short

Flagrant (adj.) extremely bad, glaring; scandalous, notorious

panegyric an expression of praise

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

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

raised platform

favorable

do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

Acquiscence

Anachronistic out-of-date, not attributed to the correct historical period

Peurile childish; immature

Peroration the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

Exhort (v.) to urge strongly, advise earnestly

Timorously

Clandestine (adj.) secret, concealed; underhanded

Frieze a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.

Sclerotic becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt

having to do with the church or the clergy

Idiosyncrasies

Trammel

Polity

Impetuosity impulsiveness

an organized society, such as a nation, state, church, or other organization, having a specific form of government

Imbibe (v.) to drink; to take in, absorb

Infantile childish; immature

Febrile (adj.) feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic

Clandestine

Vis-a-vis face to face

Compunctious deserving of shame; deeply wrong

Skeuomorphic

Seeling blinding

Dunnest

Pontiff A term that literally means "bridge-builder." It refers to the Bishop of Rome, or pope.

Exhort (v.) to urge strongly, advise earnestly

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

Judicious (adj.) using or showing good judgment, wise, sensible

Arbor a shaded area often covered with vines or flowers

Ombudsman someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person

grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic

Acquiscence agreement without protest

Unto the ages of ages; eternity

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

(adj.) frank, sincere; impartial; unposed

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

Sclerotic becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt

Scruple doubt or uneasiness as to what is right or proper

Abject (adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved

Leige

Genteel well-mannered; refined; polite

Beseeching

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