Love Walked In - Vocab Test

I read a decent book. Perfect for airports becasue the writing style was so easy to focus on and conversational. I did have to look up a zillion words though. Not really that I didn't know what they meant or couldn't at least figure it out from context clues - but if I didn't know EXACTLY what it meant I liked to highlight it and see what my good friend dictionary.com had to say about it.

Marisa de los Santos, the author, took some liberties in stretching what some of the actual definitions meant so it was pretty neat to see what they actually meant and how she was using them.

Clever.

Here they are:

• rueful: pitialble
• palpably: tangibly
• harbinger: one that initiates major change
• denizen: inhabitant
• blowsy: sloppy, unkempt
• beseeching: beg urgently
• spangly: small piece of glittering matieral to decorate with (especially a tree)
• hackels: erectile hair on back on neck
• futility: uselessness
• fluted: having grooves, like a column
• auteur: filmakers personal and unique stamp
• benighted: intellectually or morally ignorant
• imperially: pertaining to an empire or whole
• mellifluous: sweet/smoothly flowing
• stentorian: loud powerful sound
• sonorous: loud, deep, resonant sound
• conduit: pipe to convey liquid, passage of liquid
• tumult: violent/noisy commotion
• trepidation: tremulous fear
• lithe: slim
• aria: elaborate melody
• superlative: highest quality
• unimpeachable: about suspicious
• unassailable: not open to attack or dispute
• lilting: rhythmic swing or cadence
• convivial: friendly
• restive: impatient, resltess
• enervated: without vibor/force/strenth
• attrition: reduction
• obviate: to anticiapte and prevent or eliminate
• unregenerate: opposing new ideas, not renewed
• ostensibly: outwardly appearing as such
• claret: a burgendy color, or wine
• garish: crudely/tastelessly colorful/showy/bright
• ellipsis: ommion of words that would have been repeated
• prescient: knowledge of things before they exist or happen
• solicitous: anxious or concerned
• bereft: deprived
• incorrigible: bad beyond correction
• asinine: foolish
• obliquity: divergence, sometimes from moral conduct
• chaise: carriage, lounge chair
• accretion:growth in size
• extemporaneous: done without advance preparaton
• peignoir: womens dressing gown
• petulant: sudden impatience
• plaintive: expressing sorrow, melancholy
• blithe: joyess, merry, carefree
• beatific: blissful, bestowing happieness
• cheogsam: oriental dress
• ad nauseam : to a disgusting degree
• ad infinitum: without limit
• transubstantiation:changing of one substance into another
• capacious: capable of holding much, roomy
• inscrutable: incapable of being investigated, inpenetrable, not easily understood
• sluiced: artificial channel for holding water