June 15 vocab
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| Aberration | the act of deviating from the normal or usual | ||||
| Abstruse | hard to understand; recondite; esoteric | ||||
| Aquiesce | to agree or comply without protest | ||||
| Acrimonious | caustic; stinging; bitter | ||||
| Admonish | to caution, advise, reprove, or scold | ||||
| Anomoly | a deviation from the norm; and odd or peculiar contition or state | ||||
| Antithesis | the direct opposite | ||||
| Apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity; false, spurious | ||||
| Arduous | laborious, strenuous, difficult | ||||
| Assiduous | diligent, persevering | ||||
| Auspicious | propitious, favorable, fortunate | ||||
| Aver | to assert or affirm with confidence | ||||
| Cajole | to persuade by flattery or promises; to coax, to wheedle | ||||
| Capitulate | to give up or surrender | ||||
| Chimera | a grotesque monster; a horrible imaginary creature | ||||
| Clairvoyant | able to see what is not ordinarily visible | ||||
| Brevity | Briefness or conciseness in speech or writing | ||||
| Concise | using few words in speaking or writing | ||||
| Laconic | using few words in speech | ||||
| Pithy | brief and full of meaning and substance; concise | ||||
| Quiescent | quiet; still; inactive | ||||
| Reticent | not talking much; reserved | ||||
| Succinct | clearly and briefly stated; concise | ||||
| Taciturn | silent; sparing of words; close-mouthed | ||||
| Terse | using only the words that are needed to make the point; very concise, sometimes to the point of rudeness | ||||
| Bombastic | using language in a pompous, showy way; speaking to impress others | ||||
| Circumlocution | speaking in circles; roundabout speech | ||||
| Colloquial | pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational | ||||
| Diffuse | spread out; not concise; wordy | ||||
| Digress | to wander away from the subject or topic spoken about | ||||
| Eloquence | Artful ease with speaking; speech that can influence people's feelings | ||||
| Garrulous | Talkative; loquacious | ||||
| Grandiloquent | using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others | ||||
| Loquacious | very talkative; liking to talk; garrulous | ||||
| Prattle | to speak on and on in a senseless and silly manner; to talk foolishly | ||||
| Ramble | To talk on and on pointlessly, without clear direction | ||||
| Rant | To talk very loudly, even wildly; rave | ||||
| Rhetorical | Relation to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; in sincere in expression | ||||
| Verbose | using too many words; wordy; long-winded | ||||
| Voluble | talking a great deal with ease; glib | ||||
| Arrogant | overbearing; proud; haughty | ||||
| Braggart | one who boasts a great deal | ||||
| Complacent | self-satisfied; smug | ||||
| Contemptuous | lacking respect; scornful | ||||
| Disdainful | full of bitter scorn and pride; aloof | ||||
| Egotistical | excessively self-absorbed; very conceited | ||||
| Haughty | having great pride in oneself and dislike for others | ||||
| Insolent | boldly disrespectful in speech or behaviour; rude | ||||
| Narcissistic | having to do with extreme self-adoration and a feeling of superiority to everyone | ||||
| Ostentatious | Having to do with showing off; pretentious | ||||
| Presumptuous | too forward or bold; overstepping proper bounds | ||||
| Pretentious | claiming or pretending increased importance; ostentatious; affectedly grand | ||||
| Supercilious | looking down on others; proud and scornful | ||||
| Swagger | to walk around in a proud, showy manner; to boast in a loud manner | ||||
| Banal | dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed | ||||
| Cliché | an idea or expression that has become stale due to overuse | ||||
| Derivative | unoriginal; taken from something already existing | ||||
| Hackneyed | made commonplace by overuse; trite | ||||
| Insipid | lacking flavor or taste; unexciting | ||||
| Lackluster | lacking vitality, energy, or brightness; boring | ||||
| Mundane | commonplace; ordinary | ||||
| Platitude | quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original | ||||
| Prosaic | dull; commonplace | ||||
| Trite | unoriginal and stale due to overuse | ||||
| Vapid | lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale | ||||
| Acme | the highest point or stage | ||||
| Apex | the highest or culminating point | ||||
| Apogee | the farthest or highest point | ||||
| Peak | the highest level or greatest degree | ||||
| Pinnacle | the highest point of development or achievement | ||||
| Summit | top, apex; especially the highest point; peak | ||||
| Zenith | culminating point : acme <at the zenith of his powers> | ||||
| Abyss | intellectual or moral depths | ||||
| Chasm | a marked division, separation, or difference | ||||
| Nadir | the lowest point | ||||
| Adept | skilled; competent | ||||
| Inept | unskilled; incompetent | ||||
| Amity | friendship; trust | ||||
| Enmity | hatted; bitter feeling | ||||
| Approbation | approval | ||||
| Opprobium | shameful disgrace | ||||
| Avert | turn away | ||||
| Divert | amuse; entertain |
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Created by:
timothy.welkener
on 2010-06-21