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Vocab List #1-2
Sophomore Vocabulary Words #1-75
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| abashed | disconcerted, put to shame |
| badinage | banter, playful repartee |
| cabal | a group of plotters, a clique |
| dalliance | dawdling, time wasting, flirtation |
| ebullient | high-spirited, exuberant |
| facet | aspect, angle, phase |
| gadfly | pest, a constant critic who demands action |
| habituate | to get accustomed to, to get used to |
| iconoclast | one who challenges accepted beliefs |
| jejune | insipid, childish |
| karma | fate, destiny |
| lachrymose | tearful, mournful |
| maladroit | awkward, bungling |
| nadir | the lowest point |
| obdurate | unyielding, inflexible, persistent |
| paean | a song of prayer and thanksgiving |
| quaff | to drink heartily |
| raconteur | an interesting storyteller |
| sacrosanct | extremely sacred and inviolable |
| tacit | understood without being expressed in so many words, implied |
| ubiquitous | everywhere at the same time |
| vacillate | to waver, hesitate, to be indecisive |
| waft | to travel or carry lightly through the air |
| xenophobic | fear of strangers or foreigners |
| yen | a powerful craving or desire |
| zealot | a fanatic |
| abate | to lessen or diminish |
| bailiwick | one's field of skill or own particular area of expertise |
| cachet | prestige |
| daub | to smear, to coat (something) |
| eclectic | selective, choosing from various sources |
| facile | able to act and perform with ease |
| garrulous | talkative |
| hackneyed | trite, cliched, made stale from overuse |
| idyllic | happily peaceful, charmingly romantic |
| jettison | to throw overboard, to get rid of something |
| keen | to wail |
| laconic | terse, using few words |
| macrocosm | the whole of something, a whole world in itself |
| microcosm | a miniature world, a miniature sample of a whole world |
| nascent | just beginning to exist |
| obeisance | homage, deep respect |
| palliative | something that relieves without curing |
| quagmire | a swamp, any situation that is difficult to escape |
| raffish | low-class, crude, rakish, disreputable |
| sagacity | keen judgment, foreseeing wisdom |
| taciturn | uncommunicative, inclined to keep silent |
| umbrage | a feeling of offense, resentment |
| vacuous | inane, empty-headed, without substance |
| wag | a roguish wit |
| zenith | the highest point |
| abdicate | to step down (as from a throne), to give something up |
| baleful | threatening, destructive |
| cacophony | strident and discordant noise |
| dauntless | fearless |
| edify | to instruct, to uplift |
| facilitate | to make easy, to help along |
| gauche | crude, uncouth, awkward |
| halcyon | carefree, happy, tranquil, peaceful |
| ingominy | shame, disgrace |
| jingoism | excessive and bellicose patriotism |
| ken | a range of knowledge |
| lacuna | a gap, a missing part |
| malaise | a general feeling of uneasiness |
| nebulous | hazy, indistinct, foggy |
| obfuscate | to make obscure, to becloud |
| pallid | pale and wan, lacking vitality or sparkle |
| quail | to flinch or cower |
| rake | a dissolute person |
| salacious | lewd, obscene |
| tactile | pertaining to or using the sense of touch |
| unconscionable | excessive, extreme, unscrupulous, not restrained by conscience |
| vagary | an unpredictable and erratic turn of events |
| wanton | without justification, uncalled-for, willful, careless, reckless |
| aberrant | straying from the normal or usual |
| banal | commonplace, hackneyed, uninspired |
| cadaverous | haggard and ghastly |
| dearth | scarcity |
| effectuate | to bring about, to make happen, to bring to pass |
| fallacious | unsound, misleading |
| generic | general, commonplace, applicable to a whole class |
| harbinger | something that signals the approach of things to come |
| illicit | unlawful, illegal |
| jocular | joking, facetious |
| kinetic | having to do with motion |
| lagnaippe | a bonus given as a token of goodwill, a gratuity or tip |
| malapropism | a ridiculous misuse of words |
| nefarious | wicked, execrable |
| oblivion | the state of forgetting, being unaware |
| palpable | easily perceived, obvious |
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