VOCABULARY

1. Belie: to misrepresent
2. Intimate: to suggest something subtly
3. Calumny: making of a false statement meant to injure a person’s reputation
4. Parochial: narrow minded
5. Venerate: to respect deeply
6. Frugal: not spending much money
7. Equivocal: confusing or ambiguous
8. Prevaricate: to beat about the bush, speaking in an evasive way
9. Amenable: Easily persuaded
10. Qualify: to make less severe, to limit (a statement)
11. Restive: restless
12. Censure: an official reprimand, scolding
13. Ambivalent: mixed or conflicting emotions about something
14. Ingenuous: naïve and innocent
15. Undermine: to weaken (a statement)
16. Profligate: spend resources recklessly
17. Innocuous: harmless, not offensive
18. Iconoclast: somebody who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
19. Mercurial: moody
20. Maintain: to assert