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Vocabulary Lists 16 & 17
Appearances and Attitudes (V)/History and Government (I)
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Undergraduate 1
02/23/2009

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Ambivalent
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Having conflicting feelings toward a person or thing, such as love and hate.
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Bucolic
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Rural; rustic; pastoral.
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Crotchety
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Full of peculiar whims; ill-tempered; eccentric.
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Dilatory
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Slow; late in doing things; inclined to delay; meant to gain time.
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Disconsolate
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Sad; dejected; cheerless.
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Dudgeon
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Resentment; an angry or offended feeling.
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Froward
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Contrary; not easily controlled; stubbornly willful.
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Genteel
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Well-bred; refined; excessively polite.
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Jocund
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Pleasant; agreeable; genial.
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Loquacious
Definition
Talkative.
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Splenetic
Definition
Irritable; bad-tempered; spiteful.
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Tendentious
Definition
Opinionated; advancing a definite point of view or doctrine.
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Truculent
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Fierce; cruel; savage.
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Vacuous
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Empty; purposeless; stupid; senseless.
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Venal
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Readily bribed or corrupted.
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Canon
Definition
An ecclesiastical or secular law or code of laws.

A basis for laws.

Any officially recognized set of books.
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Hegemony
Definition
Leadership; preponderant (overriding) influence or authority, especially of government or state.
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Oligarchy
Definition
Form of government in which the ruling power lies in the hands of a select few.
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Peonage
Definition
A system by which debtors are bound in servitude to their creditors until debts are paid.
The condition of being an unskilled day laborer, especially in Latin America and the United States.
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Pharisaical
Definition
Making an outward show of piety but lacking the inward spirit.
Hypocritical.
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Plebiscite
Definition
A direct vote of the qualified electors of a state in regard to some important public question.
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Plenipotentiary
Definition
Invested with or conferring full power.
A diplomatic agent fully authorized to represent his government.
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Proxy
Definition
An agent or substitute; a document giving one authority to act for another.
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Recession
Definition
The act of withdrawing or going back.
A moderate and temporary decline in economic activity that occurs during a period of otherwise increasing prosperity.
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Regicide
Definition
The killing of a king.
One who kills or helps to kill a king.
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Renascent
Definition
Coming into being again.
Showing renewed growth or vigor.
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Reprisal
Definition
The practice of using political or military force without actually resorting to war.
Retaliation for an injury with the intent of inflicting at least as much injury in return.
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Subversion
Definition
Ruination or complete destruction.
Corruption.
Complete overthrow.
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Surrogate
Definition
A substitute.
In some states, a judge having jurisdiction over the probate of wills and the settlement of estates.
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Votary
Definition
A person bound by vows to live a life of religious worship and service, as a monk or nun.

Any person fervently devoted to a religion, activity, leader, or ideal.
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