Fab Vocab 176-200


Abberation


a state or condition departing from the normal


Lackadaisical


Dreamy, sureal, not listless, without interest


Punctilious


meticulous: marked by precise accordance with details


Quixotic


not sensible about practical matters, unrealistic


Cupidity


excessive desire, lust


Exigency


a pressing or urgent situation


Innocucous


without bad effect, harmless


sycophant


insincere flattterer, parasite


pandiculation


instintive stretching, as on awakening, yawning


efficacy


the power to produce an effect


exoriate


to flay, to censore scathingly


bombinate


to buzz, hum, or drone


surreptitious


secret, stealthy


glower


to stare angirly, or with a scowl


amity


friendship, good will


rusticate


to go into the county, send away temporally


effulgence


brightness, shining radiation, luster


sallow


having a sickly, yellowish color


impregnable


unconquerable, unyeilding, not to be entered


acrimonious


caustic, bitting, rancorous


desultory


jumping from subject to subject, errotic, inconsistent


eschew


to avoid moral or practical grounds, to shun


sequacious


proceeding smoothly, regurarly, especially slavishly


derspiciaus


acutely, perceptive, shrewd