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Vocab week 12
VW12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abject | Sunk to a low condition or in miserable circumstances |
| Arcane | requiring secret or mysterious knowledge |
| Cohere | cause to form an untied, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; come in close contact |
| Converge | come together so as to form a single product; move or draw together at a certain location |
| Exclude | prevent from being included or considered or accepted; prevent from entering |
| Extol | praise, glorify,or honor |
| Facilitate | make easier; increase the likelihood of (a response); be of use |
| Gluttony | eating to excess;habitual eating to excess |
| Husbandry | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |
| Kindle | cause to start burning; catch fire; call forth |
| Lucid | Having a clear mind; transparently clear; easily understandable; transmitting li0ght; able to be seen through with clarity; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner |
| Mundane | ordinary; often boring |
| Oblivion | the state of being disregarded or forgotten; total forgetfulness |
| Opulent | rich and superior in quality |
| Replete | filled or permeated; filled to satisfaction with food or drink |
| Rescind | annul be recalling or rescinding |
| Ruffle | pleat or gather into a ruffle; disturb the smoothness of; erect or fluff up; trouble or vex |
| Stimulus | any stimulating information or event; acts arouse action |
| Turbulance | unstable flow of a liquid or gas; a state of violent disturbance and disorder; instability |
| Viable | Capable of life or normal growth and development; capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are |
| Wary | marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; openly distrustful and unwilling to confide |