Vocabulary List #3

Wiles sly tricks; deceitful artifice; stratagem

Assertions positive statements or declarations with no objective proof

Ignoramus stupid person who lacks knowledge and experience

Prodigious wonderful; amazing

Blasphemous showing a lack of respect toward God

Adjured commanded solemnly; appeal to earnestly He adjured his followers to remain faithful to the cause.

Indignantly acting angrily or scornfully especially because of unjust or mean treatment

Resolutely in a determined, unwavering manner He has remained resolute in his opposition to the bill.

Perfidious Treacherous a perfidious campaign worker revealed the senator's strategy to his leading rival for the nomination

Venerable worthy of respect by reason of age and dignity or character

Enraptured filled with great pleasure or delight

Munificence generosity in giving; lavishness

Ominous sinister; threatening

Dharma In Hinduism, the duties and obligations of each caste

Mitigate to make less severe

Caricature an exaggerated or ludicrous likeness or imitation, usually of one’s face