Honors Vocabulary List #5

Conflagration (n) great fire

Demure (adj) Quiet, modest, reserved

To free from guilt or blame, exonerate Exculpate (v) To free from guilt or blame, exonerate

Lofty, pompous (arrogant) language Grandiloquence (n) Lofty, pompous (arrogant) language

impinge (v) to impact, affect, make an impression (v) to encroach (trespass or intrude), infringe

Ingenuous (adj.) not devious; innocent and candid

Magnanimous (adj.) Noble, generous

Obtuse (adj.) Lacking quickness of sensibility or intellect

Panacea (n.) A remedy for all ills or difficulties

Petulance (n.) Rudeness, irritability

Primeval (adj.) Original, ancient

Repudiate (v.) To reject, refuse to accept

Servile (adj.) Subservient; Obedient

Spurious (adj.) False but designed to seem plausible

Torpid (adj) Lethargic, dormant, lacking motion

Turpitude (n.) Depravity, moral corruption

Usurp (v.) To seize by force, take possession of without right

Vicarious (adj.) Experiencing through another

Wizened (adj.) Dry, shrunken, wrinkled

Zenith (n.) The highest point, culminating point