Can all the P & Sers PLEASE unite and help me with these words?! PLEASE!?!

Can all the P & Sers PLEASE unite and help me with these words?! PLEASE!?

PLEASE and thank you soo much guys! I love you all!
Ok here are the rules/terms:
- Define all of these words
- Include parts of speech and phonetic spelling (usually behind the word tells you how to pronounce it)
- First one to define MOST or ALL of the words gets Best Answer! GO!!!

Here are the words:
despondency
inquisitive
laudable
adherent
nondescript
blemish
perfunctorily
sagacity
amiable
despotic
garb
hue
recede
inquest
crag

2 days ago
ITS NOT my homework its my brothers! its for my brother who is in summer school...I'm tired I have a cold and he has other school stuff to do I just can't I'm too sick...=(
its almost 1 am and I am SOOOO sleepy! it really makes me sad..PLEASE help guys!!! Sorry to be so pushy... =(

im to stoned to do the rest



despondent

• adjective in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

— DERIVATIVES despondency noun despondently adverb.

— ORIGIN from Latin despondere ‘give up, abandon’.

inquisitive

• adjective 1 eagerly seeking knowledge. 2 prying.

— DERIVATIVES inquisitively adverb inquisitiveness noun.


laudable

• adjective deserving praise and commendation.

— DERIVATIVES laudably adverb.

adherent

• noun a person who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas.

• adjective sticking fast to an object or surface.

nondescript

• adjective lacking distinctive or interesting characteristics.

— ORIGIN originally in the sense not previously described scientifically: from NON- + obsolete descript described, engraved.



blemish

• noun 1 a small flaw which spoils the appearance of something. 2 a moral defect.

• verb spoil the appearance of.

— ORIGIN from Old French blesmir ‘make pale, injure’

perfunctory
/prfungktri/

• adjective carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection.

— DERIVATIVES perfunctorily adverb.

— ORIGIN Latin perfunctorius ‘careless’.

sagacious
/sgayshss/

• adjective having or showing good judgement.

— DERIVATIVES sagaciously adverb sagacity noun.

— ORIGIN from Latin sagax ‘wise’.


amiable

• adjective friendly and pleasant in manner.

— DERIVATIVES amiability noun amiably adverb.

— ORIGIN Old French, from Latin amicabilis ‘friendly, amicable’

despot
/despot/

• noun a ruler with absolute power, especially one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.

garb

• noun clothing or dress of a distinctive kind.

• verb (usu. be garbed) dress in distinctive clothes.

— ORIGIN French, from Italian garbo ‘elegance’; related to GEAR.



— DERIVATIVES despotic adjective despotism noun.

— ORIGIN Greek despotes ‘master, absolute ruler’
hue

• noun 1 a colour or shade. 2 technical the attribute of a colour, dependent on its dominant wavelength, by virtue of which it is discernible as red, green, etc. 3 aspect: men of all political hues.

— ORIGIN Old English.recede

• verb 1 move back or further away. 2 gradually diminish. 3 (of a man’s hair) cease to grow at the temples and above the forehead. 4 (receding) (of a facial feature) sloping backwards.

— ORIGIN Latin recedere ‘go back’

inquest

• noun 1 a judicial inquiry to ascertain the facts relating to an incident. 2 Brit. an inquiry by a coroner’s court into the cause of a death.

— ORIGIN Old French enqueste, from Latin inquirere, from quaerere ‘speak’.

crag

• noun a steep or rugged cliff or rock face.

— ORIGIN Celtic