Sunday, March 29, 2020

Vocabulary -- Page Two

drench: bleak, miserable dismal, dreary (northern England, Scotland, northern Ireland)

benevolent: good
avarice: greed
surname: family name
horticulture: farming, raising crops, gardening
profundity:
profound:
didactic:

tautology: circular reasoning
quintessential: role model
diminutive: extremely small
soft underbelly:
rustic: rural, country
obsequious: obsessively obedient; servile
bourgeois: middle-class; humdrum values


surreal:
surrealistic:
prose:
courteous:
siphon:
sublime:
solace: peaceful
gregarious: fond of company, living in flocks

anachronistic:
avuncular:
misogynist:
misanthrope:
misandronist:
morose:

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