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Dr. B's Vocab Quiz 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| asperity | noun. harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; rigor. e.g. The earthquake rupture usually begins at an asperity . |
| attenuate | verb. to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, or value; to lessen. e.g. Yes, earplugs may attenuate the effects to some degree. |
| axiom | noun. self evident or universally accepted truth. e.g. Forget the old axiom it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. |
| coalesce | verb. to unite, blend, or grow into one mass. e.g. The various groups coalesced into a crowd. |
| cogent | adj. compelling belief; forcefully convincing e.g. We have learned to ask such cogent questions because the news media does not. |
| copious | adj. abundant, plentiful e.g. One would think that such a hotspot would have copious transportation options for visitors flying in. |
| corroborate | verb. to make more certain, confirm e.g. He corroborated my account of the accident. |
| diffident | adj. lacking confidence in one's own ability; timid. e.g. The oppressive fear of criticism was gone, but a diffident loneliness remained. |
| dubious | adj. doubtful, uncertain. e.g. The quality of economic statistics is often dubious in developing countries, for example. |
| duplicity | noun. deceitfulness as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; being two fold. e.g. To hell with vested interest, hypocrisy, duplicity and double standards. |
| equivocate | verb. to use vague expressions, usually to avoid commitment or mislead e.g. In neither case did the speakers evade these questions, nor did they equivocate . |
| esoteric | adj. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest. e.g. This isn't just some esoteric philosophical discussion. |
| exacerbate | verb. to intensify or aggravate e.g. Many of us exacerbate the problem by treating our e-mail addresses as public information. |
| incongruous | adj. out of place; not harmonious with; inconsonant e.g. His early musical influences were somewhat incongruous : folk, delta blues and jug band music. |
| ineffable | adj. inexpressible; unutterable e.g. The gift of being able to witness that transformation is ineffable . |
| polemical | adj. of or involving dispute or controversy noun. a controversial argument e.g. Unlike me, his blogging style is far more professorial and far less polemical . |
| predilection | noun. a tendency to think favorably of something; preference. e.g. Among Harvard music majors, he said, his predilection for jazz marked him as a black sheep. |
| salient | adj. prominent; pointing outwards e.g. salient traits. |
| subsume | verb. to incorporate under a comprehensive or inclusive classification e.g. The self-interests of the corporation do not subsume the self-interests of the rest of us. |
| tendentious | adj. having or showing bias or purpose e.g. Its selection and presentation of evidence is at times searching and at other times tendentious and misleading. |
| acquiesce | verb. to submit or comply silently or without protest e.g. She just acquiesced to his whim. |
| crass | adj. without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity "My show", oh wow how crass of me to say that. |
| hedonism | noun. the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good; devotion to pleasure as a way of life e.g. Rebelling against her upbringing, Karen spends the summer in a haze of hedonism . |
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