Vocab Part II

1. niggling
Petty; bothersome
or persistent
especially in a
petty or tiresome
way

2. hallucination
an unfounded or
mistaken
impression or
notion

3. malignant
evil in nature,
influence, or
effect

4. guise
external
appearance

5. dapple 
any of numerous
usually cloudy and
rounded spots or
patches of a color
or shade different
from their
background

6. swine
a contemptible
person

7. strenuousness 
marked by or
calling for energy
or stamina

8. demeanor
behavior toward
others : outward
manner

9. stagnant
not advancing or
developing

10. commodity 
something useful
or valued

11. chastity
the quality or state
of being chaste: as
abstention from
unlawful sexual
intercourse;
personal integrity

12. inconceivable
impossible to
comprehend

13. eccentricity 
the quality or state
of being
eccentric
(deviating from
established
pattern of norms)

14. unendurable 
Unable to accept
or tolerate

15. effigies 
an image or
representation
especially of a
person;
especially : a crude
figure representing
a hated person

16. rowdy 
coarse or
boisterous in
behavior

17. indignation
anger aroused by
something
unjust,
unworthy, or
mean

18. perish 
to become
destroyed or
ruined : cease to
exist

19. mutability 
Capability of
change or of
being changed

20. invariably 
on every occasion;
always

21. intermittent
coming and going
at intervals : not
continuous

22. luminous 
emitting or
reflecting usually
steady, suffused,
or glowing light

23. scrounge 
to get as needed
by or as if by
foraging,
scavenging, or
borrowing

24. pathos
an emotion of
sympathetic pity

25. remonstrance
an earnest
presentation of
reasons for
opposition or
grievance;
especially : a
document formally
stating such points

26. proles 
Proletarian (a
member of the
laboring
class/working
class)

27. intimidate
To make timid or
fearful; frighten

28. wainscoting 
a fine grade of oak
imported for
woodwork

29. salutation
an expression of
greeting, goodwill,
or courtesy by
word, gesture, or
ceremony

30. allusion
an implied or
indirect reference
especially in
literature; the act
of alluding to or
hinting at
something

31. fretted 
Caused or suffered
emotional strain

32. voluptuous
full of delight or
pleasure to the
senses : conducive
to or arising from
sensuous or
sensual
gratification

33. reprisal 
a retaliatory act

34. fecundity 
fruitful in offspring
or vegetation;
intellectually
productive or
inventive to a
marked degree

35. dilapidated 
decayed,
deteriorated, or
fallen into partial
ruin especially
through neglect
or misuse

36. ravage 
to wreak havoc on:
affect
destructively

37. austere
stern and cold in
appearance or
manner

38. spurious
of illegitimate birth;
outwardly similar
or corresponding to
something without
having its genuine
qualities

39. preponderance 
a superiority in
weight, power,
importance, or
strength

40. tacitly
To express or
carry on without
words or speech

41. ruminant 
given to or
engaged in
contemplation

42. plunder
to take by force or
wrongfully

43. irrevocable
not possible to
revoke;
unalterable

44. irreconcilable 
impossible to
reconcile

45. recurrence 
occurring again
after an
interval : occurri
ng time after
time

46. hierarchy 
the classification of
a group of people
according to
ability or to
economic, social,
or professional
standing; a graded
or ranked series

47. infallible 
incapable of error

48. oligarchical 
of, relating to, or based
on an oligarchy (a
government in which
a small group
exercises control
especially for corrupt
and selfish purposes)

49. scrutinize
to examine closely
and minutely

50. dissipate
to break up and
drive off; to
cause to spread
thin or scatter
and gradually
vanish

51. repression
the action or process
of repressing (to put
down by force; to
prevent the natural or
normal expression,
activity, or
development of)

52. supple
readily adaptable
or responsive to
new situations

53. reverence
honor or respect
felt or shown