Vocab Unit 9 Flashcards
Hybrid
Mixed offspring; produced by cross-breeding; mixture of words
Compound
Husbandry
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Farming
Hyperbole
Extravagant exaggeration
Embellishment
Hypocritical
Professing feelings or virtues one does not have
Pretending
Iconoclast
Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions; a destroyer of images used in religious worship
Heretic
Idiosyncratic
Peculiar to the individual
Distinctive
Imperial
Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress
Regal
Impudent
Marked by casual disrespect; improperly forward or bold
Shameless
Inchoate
Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
Undeveloped
Incite
To provoke
Encourage
Inconspicuous
Not prominent or readily noticeable
Hidden
Incorrigible
Impervious to correction by punishment
Hopeless
Indignant
Angered at something unjust or wrong
Furious
Indolent
Slow to heal or develop and usually painless; disinclined to work or exertion; lazy
Lethargic
Ineffable
Too sacred to be uttered, defying expression or description
Heavenly
Innocuous
Producing no injury; harmless
Innocent
Insolent
Unrestrained be convention or propriety; marked by casual disrespect
Impudent
Intuition
Instinctive knowing
Hunch
Invocation
The act of appealing for help; a incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil; a prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service; calling up a spirit or devil
Summon
Irascrible
Characterized by anger; quickly aroused to anger
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