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Word: rubric

Definition: title or heading (in red print); directions for religious ceremony; protocol


More Vocab Words

::: placate - pacify; bring peace to; conciliate; appease
::: tentative - not fully worked out or developed; provisional; experimental; uncertain; hesitant; not definite or positive; Ex. tentative agreement/reply
::: threadbare - worn through till the threads show; shabby and poor; hackneyed; Ex. threadbare excuses
::: forsake - desert; abandon; renounce
::: irrepressible - unable to be restrained or held back; impossible to hold back
::: verbose - wordy; N. verbosity
::: brawny - muscular; having well-developed muscles
::: predicament - difficult situation; tricky or dangerous situation; dilemma
::: disgorge - surrender something (stolen); eject; vomit; OP. gorge
::: mortician - undertaker; CF. death