Word List: Amy Dunne

Word List: Amy Dunne

Aforethought - previously in mind; premeditated, deliberate—used postpositively

Concoct - devise, fabricate

Disputatious - marked by disputation (i.e., an academic exercise in oral defense of a thesis by formal logic)

Empoison - embitter (i.e., to excite bitter feelings in)

Ersatz - being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation

Expiation - the means by which expiation or atonement is made

Facile - poised, assured

Foresight - provident care; prudence

Indemnification - the action of indemnifying (i.e., to secure against hurt, loss, or damage)

Inimical - being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence

Obdurate - hardened in feelings

Perspicacious - of acute mental vision or discernment

Prepense - planned beforehand

Pulchritudinous - physical comeliness

Specious - having deceptive attraction or allure

Spurious - of falsified or erroneously attributed origin

Toffee-nosed - snobbish

Vainglory - excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one's achievements

Viperish - spitefully vituperative (i.e., uttering or given to censure); venomous

Wrath - retributory punishment for an offense or a crime; divine chastisement

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