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LiteratureDefinitios
Vocabulary descriptions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Audacity | Nerve, spunk, grit, extraordinary boldness. |
| Apathetic | Showing feeling of no interest. |
| Sympathetic | Feelings or impulses of compassion |
| Short-Sighted | Lacking foresight, unable to see far, nearsighted |
| Prevalent | Widespread in a particular area, predominant, powerful. |
| Precarious | Dependent on circumstances, beyond one's control. (she made a precarious decision.) (He earned a precarious living off of gambling) |
| Inadvisable | Not wise. Not advisable. (The procedure is inadvisable because of the risks involved) |
| Innate | existing from the time a person or animal is born. Inborn Characteristic |
| Solidarity | a feeling of unity between people who have the same interests, goals, etc. |
| Exclusive | Restricted or limited to the person, group or area. (The couple had exclusive possession of the condo) |
| Mundane | Lacking interest or excitement, dull. |
| Superficial | Of, affecting, or being on or near the surface. (a superficial wound) |
| Permeates | To pass or spread through (the room permeated with tobacco smoke) |
| Decadent | Characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline. a person who is luxuriously self-indulgent. |
| Correlate | Have a mutual relationship or connection, in which one thing affects or depends on another. (The employees pay directly correlates with how many hours he puts in.) |
| Trepidation | A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen. (He had a feeling of trepidation about the legal agreement) |
| Elucidate | Make something clear; explain. To make lucid by explanation. |
| Facetious | Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor. Joking or jesting inappropriately. Meant to be funny but annoying, silly, or not appropriate. |
| Postulate | To assume or assert the truth, reality, or necessity of, especially as a basis of an argument. (his theory postulated a rotatory movement for hurricanes) (Scientists have postulated the existence of water on the planet.) |
| Pretentious | the unpleasant quality of people who want to be regarded as more impressive, successful, or more important than they really are. |
| Prudent | Having or showing careful or good judgement. Wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense. |
| Pervasive | Existing or spreading through every part of something. Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate (the pervasive odor of garlic.) |
| Inconsistent | Not staying the same throughout. (his argument was inconsistent with the evidence) |
| Animosity | A strong feeling of dislike or hatred (His open animosity toward us during the meeting made us feel very uneasy) |
| Transcend | Be or go beyond the normal limits of (Something abstract typically a conceptual field or division.) |
| Fictitious | Not real or true, having been fabricated |
| Facetious | Treating a situation with lack of serious intent. |
| Semantics | the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning |
| Exacerbate | To make a bad situation worse. |
| Ostensible | Seeming or said to be true or real but very possibly not true or real. |
| Ostentatious | Displaying wealth, knowledge, etc.. in a way that is meant to attract attention, admiration, or envy. |
| Envy | A feeling of discontent covetousness with regard to another's advantage, success, possessions, etc.. |
| Covetous | feeling or showing a very strong desire for something that you do not have and especially for something that belongs to someone else |
| Obscure | Not discovered or known about |
| Supplement | Something added to complete a thing, or reinforce or extend a whole. |
| Brevity | The use of few words to say something. |
| Daunting | Tending to make people afraid or less confident, very difficult to deal with. |
| Ineptitude | A lack of skill or ability (the state of being inept) |
| Analogous | having anagloy; corresponding in some particular manner |
| Albeit | Even though |
| Via | By going through |
| Susurrus | a soft murmuring or rustling sound; whisper. |
| Volatile | tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive |
| Berate | To yell at someone or to criticize in a loud angry way |
| sagacious | having or showing an ability to understand difficult ideas and situations and to make good decisions |
| Shrewd | having or showing an ability to understand things and to make good judgments : mentally sharp or clever |
| Sapient | possessing or expressing great sagacity |
| Sagacity | acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment. |
| Cohesion | to stick together; be united (Cohesive-Characterized by cohesion) |
| Self-Evident | not needing to be demonstrated or explained; obvious. |
| Cognitive | of, relating to, or involving conscious mental activities (such as thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering) |
| Nepotism | the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs. |
| Anecdotal | (of an account) not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research. “while there was much anecdotal evidence there was little hard fact". |
| Ambiguous | Open to, or having several possible meanings or interpretations. Lacking clearness or definiteness; obscure; indistinct. “an ambiguous shape; an ambiguous future.” |
| Contemporary | Existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time. |
| Allegory | a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation |
| Virtue | Behavior showing high moral standards. Moral excellence; goodness; righteousness. |
| Conclusive | Serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: “Conclusive evidence” |
| Intrinsic | Belonging naturally; essential. Belonging to a thing by its very nature: |
| Livid | Furiously angry |
| Autonomy | Independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions. The power or right of a country, group, person, etc., to govern itself. |
| Precipitous | Dangerously high or steep. Done too quickly and without enough thought or planning. |
| Partisan | An adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance. |
| Adherent | someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas. To adhere to something, an idea, political affiliation, group, etc.. |
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