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English Vocabulary
Semester One English Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| imbue | to inspire, permeate, or invade |
| implacable | impossible to placate or appease |
| Mercurial | quick and changeable in temperament; volatile |
| laconic | used or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise |
| incarnate | invested with bodily nature and form 2) embodied in human form; personified |
| philander | to carry on a sexual affair or many affairs, especially with a frivolous or casual attitude; used of a man |
| remiss | lax in attending to duty; negligent |
| trepidation | state of alarm or dread; apprehension |
| surly | sullenly ill-humored gruff |
| seethe | to churn and foam as if boiling |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or marked by perfidy; treacherous; marked by a deliberate breach of faith |
| allay | to reduce the intensity of; relieve 2) to calm or pacify; set to rest |
| fortitude | strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage |
| precursor | one that indicates, suggests, or announces someone or somtething to come |
| enmity | deep-seated, often mutaul hatred |
| prate | to talk idly and at lenght; chatter |
| upbraid | to reprove sharply; reproach |
| surfeit | to feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust |
| abstemious | eating or drinking in moderation |
| barren | not producing offspring or incapable of producing offspring |
| vex | to annoy, as with petty importunities; bother |
| discourse | verbal expression in speech or writing |
| iniguity | gross immortality or injustice; wickednexss |
| contumely | rudeness or contempt arising from arrogance; insolence |
| tremulous | mqarked by trembing quivery, or shaking |
| lurid | causing shock or horror; gruesome |
| gesticulate | to make gestures especially while speaking, as for emphasis |
| aver | to affirm positively; declare |
| appellation | a name, title, or desingnation |
| inimical | injurious or harmful in effect; adverse |
| somniferous | inducing sleep; soporific |
| asperity | roughness or harshness as of surface, sound, or climate 2) severity, rigor |
| inauspicious | not favorable; not promising |
| venearable | commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position |
| ignominious | marked by shame or disgrace |
| sagacity | the quality of being discerning, sound in judgement and farsighted; wisdom |
| efficacy | power or capacity to produce a desired effect; effectiveness |
| expostulate | to reason earnestly with someone in an effort to dissuade or correct; remonstrate |
| caprice | an impulsive change of mind |
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |
| adduce | to cite as an example or means of proff in an argument |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting |
| supercilious | having or showing arrogant superiority to and sidain of those views as unworthy |
| erroneous | containing or derived from error; mistaken |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable |
| affectation | a show, pretense or display 2) behavior that is assumed rather than natural; artificiality |
| corpulent | excessively fat |
| nebulous | hazy, vague, indistingct, or confused |
| dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate |
| garrulous | given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative |
| elocution | a person's manner of speaking or reading aloud in public |
| strident | loud, harsh, grating, or shrill; discordant |
| torpid | deprived of the power of motion or feeling; benumbed |
| propensity | an innate inclination; a tendency |
| taciturn | habitually untalkative |
| sentient | having sense perception; conscious |
| querulous | given to complaining; peevish |
| mien | bearing or manner, especially as it reveals an inner state of mind |
| beleaguer | to harass; beset |
| captiulate | to surrender under specified conditions; come to terms 2) to give up alll resistance; acquiesce |
| impudent | marked by offensive boldness; insolent |
| sedentary | characterized by or requiring much sitting |
| reticent | inclined to keep one's thourhgts, feelings, or personal affairs to oneself |
| oblique | having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position |
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