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English Vocab

Vocab Words

QuestionAnswer
Posh fancy or stylish
Ballyhoo a noisy, attention-getting speech
Impropriety an act of improper behavior
Disheveled untidy or sloppy
Expletive an exclamatory word or phrase, often profane or vulgar
Pilfer to steal insignificant items
Cryptic hidden or mysterious
Whet to sharpen
Wanderlust a strong desire to travel
Fiasco a disaster or failure
Scintillate to sparkle, to flash
Ravenous very hungry
Embellish to make beautiful with ornamentation or to exaggerate
Vie to strive for or to try fore
Ambulatory able to move or walk
Reverie lost in thought, a daydream
Pinnacle the highest point
Paraphernalia personal belongings
Taciturn disinclined to talk
Titanic huge
Formidable frightening, a worthy adversary
Dormant inactive, listless
Debonair charming and dashing
Oscillate to rotate back and forth
Archetype an original pattern or model
Echelon one in a series of commands or rankings
Replicate to make a copy of or a duplicate of something
Pariah loner, outcast
Bedlam chaos and disorder, madness and mayhem
Kowtow overly polite or flattering
Bona Fide make in good faith, original
Cuisine style of food
Tantalize to tempt, tease, or torment
Apex high point, pinnacle
Juxtapose to place side-by-side for purposes of comparison
Luminary one who is notable in a field of study
Verve energy, nerve, liveliness
Parochial limited in scope or thinking, related to a church
Doggerel weak or inferior poetry
Ludicrous ridiculous or absurd, laughable for obvious reasons
Corona a halo of light around the sun or moon
Halcyon calm and silent
Cacophonous harsh sounding or confusing-sounding
Holocaust widespread destruction, especially by fire
Monolith a single, large stone, often in the form of a column or monument
Escalate to increase in scope or enlarge in size
Pinion to testrain by binding the arms, to hold fast
Silhouette a dark outline against a light background
Flotilla a fleet of small ships
Brouhaha hubbub, uproar, furor, confusion
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