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Vocabulary Term #1
Vocabulary Term 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Capricious | Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable |
| Conjecture | Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork |
| Derision | Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule |
| Emulate | To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation |
| Fitful | Occurring in or characterized by intermittent bursts, as of activity; irregular |
| Hapless | Luckless; unfortunate |
| Inarticulate | Uttered without the use of normal words or syllables; incomprehensible as speech or language |
| Lexicon | A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary |
| Permeable | That can be permeated or penetrated, especially by liquids or gases |
| Ruddy | Having a healthy, reddish color |
| Stupor | A state of reduced or suspended sensibility |
| Venial | Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable |
| Benign | Of a kind and gentle disposition |
| Carafe | A glass or metal bottle, often with a flared lip, used for serving water or wine |
| Consort | A husband or wife, especially the spouse of a monarch |
| Fledgling | A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers |
| Harbinger | One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner |
| Incorrigible | Incapable of being corrected or reformed |
| Liaison | An instance or a means of communication between different groups or units of an organization, especially in the armed forces. |
| Pernicious | Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly |
| Enigma | One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable |
| Indigent | Experiencing want or need; impoverished |
| Lithe | Readily bent; supple |
| Notorious | Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous |
| Plethora | A superabundance; an excess |
| Rustic | Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people |
| Vertigo | The sensation of dizziness |
| Admonish | To reprove gently but earnestly |
| Cataclysm | A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change |
| Cower | To cringe in fear |
| Discernible | Perceptible, as by the faculty of vision or the intellect |
| Florid | Flushed with rosy color; ruddy |
| Hermitage | A place where one can live in seclusion; a retreat |
| Innocuous | Having no adverse effect; harmless |
| Livid | Discolored, as from a bruise; black-and-blue |
| Numismatist | The study or collection of money, coins, and often medals |
| Prodigal | Rashly or wastefully extravagant |
| Sadistic | The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others |
| Sylvan | Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions |
| Unanimity | The condition of being unanimous |
| Obliterate | To do away with completely so as to leave no trace |
| Schism | A separation or division into factions |
| Taint | To affect with or as if with a disease |
| Uncanny | Peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature; eerie |
| Allay | To reduce the intensity of; relieve |
| Bleak | Providing no encouragement; depressing |
| Crestfallen | Dispirited and depressed; dejected |
| Eviscerate | To remove the entrails of; disembowel |
| Fortuitous | Happening by accident or chance |
| Hedonism | Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
| Itinerant | Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty |
| Offal | Waste parts, especially of a butchered animal |
| Puerile | Belonging to childhood; juvenile |
| Scrupulous | Conscientious and exact; painstaking |
| Tawdry | Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance |
| Visage | The face or facial expression of a person; countenance |
| Allege | To assert to be true; affirm |
| Bludgeon | A short heavy club, usually of wood, that is thicker or loaded at one end |
| Cauterize | To burn or sear with a cautery |
| Exhume | To remove from a grave; disinter |
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