American Lit Vocab-Week 8

Dilatory

• slow to act; intended to cause delay.
• a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.
• having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence.
• eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.

Bona fide

• genuine; real.
• a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
• in a way that is experienced in the imagination through the actions of another person.
• an agreement between opposing armies to suspend hostilities in order to discuss peace terms; truce.

Prig

• a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
• a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
• impair the appearance of; disfigure.
• in a way that is experienced in the imagination through the actions of another person.

Stagnant

• having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence.
• an agreement between opposing armies to suspend hostilities in order to discuss peace terms; truce.
• slow to act; intended to cause delay.
• a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.

Portentous

• a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
• eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
• genuine; real.
• a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.

Armistice

• an agreement between opposing armies to suspend hostilities in order to discuss peace terms; truce.
• genuine; real.
• eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
• slow to act; intended to cause delay.

Vicariously

• in a way that is experienced in the imagination through the actions of another person.

• having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence.

• an agreement between opposing armies to suspend hostilities in order to discuss peace terms; truce.

• a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.

Truculent

• eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
• impair the appearance of; disfigure.
• a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
• having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence.

Libertine

• a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.
• in a way that is experienced in the imagination through the actions of another person.
• a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
• impair the appearance of; disfigure.

Marred

• impair the appearance of; disfigure.
• slow to act; intended to cause delay.
• a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.
• genuine; real.