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English Vocabulary
Units 10-15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accrue | to grow or accumulate over time; to happen as a natural result |
| Annotation | a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work |
| Bedlam | a state or scene of uproar or confusion |
| Covert | hidden, disguised, purposefully kept secret; sheltered, secluded, a sheltered place, a hiding place |
| Debonair | pleasant, courteous, lighthearted; smooth and polished in manner and appearance |
| Dun | to demand insistently, especially in payment of a debt, a creditor, dark, dull, drab, dingy |
| Efficacious | effective, producing results |
| Equanimity | calmness, composure, refusal to panic |
| Fortuitous | accidental, occurring by happy chance |
| Gist | the essential part, main point, or essence |
| Gratuitous | freely given, not called for by circumstances, unwarranted |
| Imperious | overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling |
| Invective | a strong denunciation or condemnation; abusive language; abusive, vituperative |
| Motley | showing great variety, composed of different elements or many colors, a jester's costume, a jester |
| Munificent | extremely generous, lavish |
| Procrastinate | to delay, put off until later |
| Provocative | tending to produce a strong feeling or response; arousing desire or appetite; irritating, annoying |
| Recondite | exceeding ordinary knowledge and understanding |
| Reprobate | a depraved, vicious, or unprincipled person, scoundrel; wicked, corrupt, or unprincipled |
| Sedentary | characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place |
| Abstemious | moderate, sparing; characteristic by abstinence and self-discipline |
| Censurable | deserving blame or correction |
| Contingent | likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance; representative group forming a larger body |
| Corroborate | to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify |
| Denizen | an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place |
| Discursive | passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic |
| Disseminate | to scatter or spread widely |
| Dowdy | poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste |
| Florid | highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy |
| Foist | to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty or coercion |
| Gauche | awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy |
| Heresy | an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred |
| Inculate | to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly |
| Palpable | capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized |
| Perceptive | having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keep appreciation |
| Pernicious | extremely harmful; deadly, fatal |
| Salient | leaping, jumping, or springing forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous; a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward |
| Satiate | to satisfy completely; to fill to excess; full, satisfied |
| Sear | to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, desiccate, singe |
| Specious | deceptive, apparently god or valid but lacking real merit |
| Absolve | to clear from blame, responsibility or guilt |
| Caricature | a representation in which the subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated; to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way |
| Clangor | a loud ringing sound; to make a loud ringing noise |
| Contiguous | side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time |
| Cupidity | an eager desire for something; greed |
| Deleterious | harmful, injurious |
| Enhance | to raise to a higher degree; to increase the value or desirability of |
| Enthrall | to captivate, charm, hold spellbound, to enslave; to imprison |
| Extenuate | to lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses |
| Implicit | implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in |
| Incisive | sharp, keen, penetrating |
| Ostentations | marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy |
| Paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| Paraphrase | to restate in other words; a statement that presents a given idea in new language |
| Politic | prudent, shrewdly concveived and developed; artful, expedient |
| Prosaic | dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter of fact, straightforward; characteristic of prose not poetic |
| Redundant | extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; profuse, lush |
| Sanctimonious | making a show of virtue or righteousness;hypocritically moralistic or pious, self righteous, canting, holier than thou |
| Scintillating | sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant |
| Winsome | charming, attractive, pleasing |
| Abet | to encourage, assist, aid, support |
| Aver | to affirm, declare confidently |
| Blatant | noisy in a coarse, offensive way; obvious way; obvious or conspicuous, especially in an unfavorable sense |
| Broach | to bring up or begin to talk about, to announce, introduce, to break the surface of the water, o turn sideways to the wind and waves, to pierce in order to draw off liquid, a spit for roasting, a tool for tapping casks |
| Buttress | to support, prop up, strengthen, supporting structure |
| Carousal | noisy revelry or merry making |
| Collate | to compare critically in order to note differences, similarities, to arrange in order for some specific purpose |
| Connoisseur | an expert, one who is well qualified to pass critical judgements, especially in one of the fine arts |
| Disconsolate | deeply unhappy or dejected, without hope, beyond consolation |
| Encumber | to weigh down or burden, to fill up, block, hinder |
| Foment | to promote trouble or rebellion; to apply warm liquids to, warm |
| Grisly | frightful, horrible, ghastly |
| Herculean | relating to Hercules, characterized by great strength; very hard to do in the sense of requiring unusual strength |
| Impassive | showing no feeling or emotion; inanimate, motionless |
| Inauspicious | unfavorable, unlucky, suggesting bad luck for the future |
| Incontrovertible | unquestionable, beyond despute |
| Nonplussed | puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss |
| Opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular purpose; occurring at an appropriate time |
| Prolific | abundantly productive; abundant, profuse |
| Rejoinder | a reply to a reply, especially from the defendant in a legal suit |
| Amenable | willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive; liable to be held responsible |
| Berate | to scold sharply |
| Carnage | large-scale slaughter or loss of life |
| Credulous | too ready to believe, easily deceived |
| Criterion | a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation |
| Deplete | to use up as a result of spending or consumption, to diminish greatly |
| Expatiate | to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely |
| Extraneous | coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant |
| Inception | the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. |
| Infirmity | a weakness or ailment |
| Jejune | lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile |
| Obdurate | stubborn, unyielding |
| Potpourri | a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent |
| Precocious | showing unusually early development |
| Sadistic | delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel |
| Sententious | self righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy |
| Supplicate | to beg earnestly or humbly |
| Surfeit | an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess |
| Tortuous | winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious |
| Turgid | swollen, bloated, filled to excess, overdecorated or excessive in language |
| Adamant | firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible, an extremely hard substance |
| Brouhaha | a confused hodgepodge of sounds, a hubbub, an uproar or commotion that goes far beyond what is justified |
| Bulwark | a strong defense or protection, a solid wall-like structure for defense, to provide such defense or protection |
| Choleric | easily made angry, bad-tempered |
| Cloy | to spoil or destroy an appetite by too much indulgence, especially in sweet or rich things, to glut, satiate, surfeit |
| Curtail | to cut short, bring to a halt or end sooner that expected, to reduce |
| Deference | courteous yielding to the wishes and ideas of another person; great respect marked by submission, as to a superior |
| Definitive | conclusive, final, representing the limit of what can be done |
| Demeanor | the way a person behaves, overall impression made by comportment, manner, etc.; facial appearance, mien |
| Enigmatic | puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood |
| Impromptu | without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily done; an extemporaneous composition or remark; a minimal piece suggestive of improvisation |
| Mawkish | excessively and objectionably sentimental; having a mildly sickening flavor |
| Mollify | to soften, make gentle, pacify; to calm, allay, assuage, appease, placate; to reduce in intensity |
| Onus | something that is heavy or burdensome, a stigma, blame |
| Presentiment | a vague sense of approaching misfortune |
| Profligate | given over to dissipation and self-indulgence, immoral, recklessly extravagant, a person given to self-indulgent and wild spending |
| Remit | to send or hand in, to cancel, forgive, pardon, to lessen, diminish, to pit off, post pone, defer |
| Requisite | needed, necessary, regarded as essential or indispensable |
| Sartorial | of or pertaining to a tailor or his work; having to do with clothes or dress |
| Thwart | to oppose successfully, to prevent, frustrate |
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