Week of March 5 Study for Quiz Vocabulary Week of March 5 Study for Quiz

Renounce give up claim: to give up formally a claim, title, position, or right reject belief: to reject or disavow a belief or theory stop doing something: to give up a habit, pursuit, or practice

Truculent fierce; cruel; savagely brutal brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work aggressively hostile; belligerent

Nefarious evil: utterly immoral or wicked

Complacency A feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy.

Vehemence Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction fervid: a vehement denial

Innocuous unlikely to offend: not intended to cause offense or provoke a strong reaction and unlikely to do so harmless: harmless in effect

Obsequious submissive: excessively eager to please or obey fawning annoying teacher’s pet

Malevolence ill will ; malice; hatred

Alacrity eager readiness

Canonical relating to, or forming a canon – what a lousy definition conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure : orthodox of or relating to a clergyman

Berate scold: to scold somebody vigorously and at length

Incontrovertible certain, undeniable, and not open to question

Polarize cause division of opinion: to make the differences between groups or ideas ever more clear-cut and extreme, hardening the opposition between them, or become ever more clear-cut and extreme in this way

Axioms a self-evident truth that requires no proof a universally accepted principle or rule a proposition that is assumed without proof

Unbridled freely and openly expressed

Predicated to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert

Opaque not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light

Circuitous lengthy because very indirect

Affable easygoing: good-natured, friendly, and easy to talk to

Ardent having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling Passionate fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love

Vaunted boasted about or praised in an ostentatious way

Beguiled charm somebody: to win and hold somebody's attention, interest, or devotion deceive somebody: to mislead or deceive somebody cheat somebody: to rob somebody of something, or cheat somebody out of something

Enervated weakened or exhausted physically, mentally, or morally

Castigated to criticize or reprimand severely to punish in order to correct

Exonerated to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame

Filial of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter: filial obedience noting or having the relation of a child to a parent

Tacit implied but not expressed: understood or implied without being stated openly

Prescient knowing in advance: having or showing knowledge of actions or events before they take place