Falling Short Glossary

by Ernesto Cisneros

Falling Short Glossary

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Irascible

Grouchy, irritable

Invidious

Unpleasant, awkward

Spurious

Sham, false

Fugacious

Tending to disappear

Abnegate

Renounce, refuse

Cavort

Romp, skip

Evanescent

Fading, passing

Iconoclast

Sceptic, critic

Appalling

Hateful, shocking

Instigate

Launch, establish

Noisome

Unpleasant, nasty

Maverick

Rebel, individualistic

Proclivity

Leaning, tendency

Proscribe

Forbid, disallow

Obfuscate

Jumble, confuse

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