Vocab 4

• Anathema
•  N
• a person or thing detested or loathed
• The basketball games were an anathema to George because he enjoys a good chess match instead.
• Emolument
• N
• profit, salary, or fees from office or employment
•   The babysitter made a large emolument because she charged excessive amount for her services.
• Mountebank
• N
• any charlatan or quack. 
  The king in Huck Fin is a mountebank.
• Deleterious 
• Adj
• injurious to health
• Some people thought that basketball was deleterious because of the other players playing to rough.  
• Misanthropy 
• N
• hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind. 
   Frank was the towns misanthropy after his wide died in a tragic drunk driving incident. 
• Indefatigable
• Adj.
•  incapable of being tired out
• The indefatigable toddler ran circles around her exhausted parents. 
• Constrained 
• Verb
• to repress or restrain
• The baby was constrained when her mother swaddled the child to soothe her.
• Amenable 
• Adj
• ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield
• The amenable high school student only want to fit in and be cool.   
• Averred 
• Verd
• state or assert to be the case.
• The jury averred that they blood thrust murder was guilty.  
• Heterodox
• Adj
• Holding unorthodox doctrines or opinion 
• The resolution submitted to AASG by Kong was heterodox because their facts were missleading and incorrect.