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NLN Vocabulary
Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| eloquent | characterized by fluency and persuavsiveness; visibly or vividly expressive, as of an emotion |
| cynical | distrusting or disparging the moves of others; like or characteristic of a cynic; bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, pessimistic |
| pandemonium | wild uproaor or restrained disorder; chaos; a place or scene of riotous uproar or utter chaos |
| symposium | a meeting or confernce for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience |
| ambiguous | open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal; of double or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish or classify |
| expansive | having a wide range or extent; comprehensive; extensive; causing expansion |
| arrogant | making claims or pretenisons to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud |
| partison | an adherent supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows biased, emotional allegiance |
| contemptible | deserving of or hled in contempt; despicable; the state of being despised; dishonor; disgrace; the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile or worthless; disdain; scorn |
| nominal | being such in name only; so called putative; of pertaining to, or constituting a name or names |
| predator | any organism that exists by preying upon their organisms |
| herbivore | feeding on plants |
| avarice | insatiable greed by riches; inordinate, miserly disire to gain and hoard wealth |
| animosity | a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action |
| menial | lowly and sometimes degrading; servile submissive; pertaining to or suitable for domestic servants; humble |
| obscure | not clear of understanding; hard to perceive; indistinct to the sight or any other sense; not really seen, heard, etc...faint |
| carnivore | an animal that eats flesh; a flesh-eating mammal of the order carnivora, comprising the dogs, cats, bears, seals, and weasels |
| omnivore | eating both animals and plants |
| wavered | to sway to and fro; flutter; to flicker or quiver, as light |
| facilitated | to make easier or less difficult; help forward |
| transgress | to violate a law, command, moral, code, ect.' offend; sin; to passover or go beyond |
| agitate | to move or force into violent, irregular action; to shake or move briskly |
| legible | capable of being read or deciphered, especially w/ease as writing or printing; easily readable |
| explicit | fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied |
| presumptuous | full of, characterized by or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or though; unwarrantedlyy or impertinently bold; forward |
| bogus | not geniuine; counterfiet; spurious; sham |
| suspense | a state or condition of mental uncertainty or exitement, as in awating a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety |
| limbo | a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegaed when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date; place of imprisonment or confinement |
| continuum | a continuous extent, serious or whole |
| momentum | a force of speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical obefect or couse of events |
| callous | made hard hardened; insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic |
| implied | to indicate or sugest without being explicitly stated |
| obsolete | no longer in general use; fallen into disuse |
| deleted | to striket out or remove; erase or cancel |
| collective | forming a whole; combined |
| consecutive | following one another in uninterrupted succession or order, successive |
| unimportant | of much or great significance or consequence |
| persistent | persisting, especially inspite of opposition, obstacle, discouragement |
| restrained | to hold back from action; keep in check or under control |
| significant | important; of consequence; having meaning |
| inertia | inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, etc..., inactivity; sluggishness |
| remission | a period during which such a decrease or subsidence occurs; pardon; forgiveness, as of sins or offenses |
| impertinent | intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; civil |
| ambitious | eagerly desiours of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc... |
| succumbing | to give away to superior force, yield; to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc; die |
| malingering | to pretend illness, especially in order to shrink ones duty, avoid work, etc... |
| fantasizing | to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppostions or the like; to create in ones fancy, daydreams, or the like, to imagine |
| abduction | the illegal carrying or enticing away of a person, especially by interfering with a relationship, as the taking of child from its parent |
| candid | frank; outspoken; open and sincere; free from reservation disguise or subterfuge; straightforward; honest; impartial |
| casual | happening by change with out definite or serious intention; careless or offhand; passing; fortuitous |
| admonition | counsel, advise or caution |
| veneration | the feeling of a person who venerates; a feeling of awe, respecet, etc...reverence |
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