u.4 ELAR/GT vocab Flashcards
loud and enthusiastic approval, typically to welcome or honor someone or something
Acclamation
a person who talks at great length without making much sense
Blatherskite
the husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing
Chaff
(in general use) a personal possession
Chattel
a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievements
Complacency
the condition or process of degrading or being degraded
Degradation
resolute courageousness
Intrepidity
(in Christian theology) a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death
Perdition
a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause
Petition
ceremony and splendid display, especially at a public event
Pomp
a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition toward a particular thing
Proclivities
good-humored teasing
Raillery
make a military observation of (a region)
Reconnoiter
abject or cringing submissiveness. obsequiousness, subservience. submissiveness - the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc.
Servilities
fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force
Succumb
