Quack quiz 10

• truncate


  to shorten by chopping off the end
• baneful


  causing woe, destructive, harmly, deadly
• circumspect


  prudent, cautious
• admonish


  to warn or caution in council
• tantamount


  of equal value or significance
• neologism


  a new word or phrase; nee usage of a word
• respite


  a period of rest or relief
• capitulate


  to surrender, to give up or give in
• aphorism


  a concise statement or truth
• confute


  to prove wrong, to refuse decicely
• dexterous


  adroit or skillful in body or hand movement
• entice


  to lure, to attract, to tempt in pleasing fashion
• indolent


  lazy
• perfunctory


  unenthusiastic, careless
• vapid


  without liveliness, dull, spiritless
• vissage


  a face or facial expression
• slovenly


  messy; characteristic of a slob
• stolid


  showing little emotion or pain; emotionally stolid
• taciturn


  un talkative by nature
• egregious


  extremely bad, flagrant