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4th Quarter Review
4th Quarter Vocabulary Review - Schumacher
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Indifferent | showing no care or concern in attitude or action |
| Benevolent | Expressing goodwill or kind feelings to thers |
| Abstract | Thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects or actual instances |
| Fallacious | based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information |
| Conciliatory | Regaining goodwill or favor; tending to placate |
| Discernable | Ability to perceive something obscure or concealed; discriminating |
| Aesthetic | Pertaining to a sense of beauty in nature and art |
| Inquisitive | Questioning; eager to learn; given to examination |
| Reticent | Disposed to be quiet or not speak freely; reserved |
| Complacent | Self-satisfied;unconcerned; content to a fault |
| Dogmatic | Asserting opinions in a dictatorial manner |
| Plausible | Having the appearence of truth, reliability, or reason |
| Diligent | Persistant in doing something; constant and earnest in effort and application |
| Capricious | Subject to chaning one's mind without much thought; erratic; whimsical |
| Pertinent | Relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand |
| Devious | Departing from the most direct way; cicuitous; roundabout |
| Meticulous | Taking or showing extreme care about minute details; painstaking |
| Eccentric | Unconventional; deviating from accepted practice |
| Corroboration | Confirmation |
| Embellish | To make beautiful or elegant by adding ornamentation |
| Extraneous | Having no essential relationship to a subject |
| Idiosyncrasy | A quality or habit particular to an individual |
| Impetuous | Rashness |
| Ludicrous | Laughable |
| Nafarious | Wicked to the extreme |
| Ostentatious | A studied pretense or attempt |
| Pilfer | To steal, especially in small quantities |
| Repudiate | Refuse to have anything to do with |
| Scrupulous | Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong |
| Stringent | Strictness |
| Vacillate | To waver |
| Verbose | Wordy |
| Intrepid | Fearless or bold |
| Pseudonym | A false name used especially by an author |
| Incongruous | Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion |
| Omnibus | Pertaining to numerous objects or items at once |
| Amorous | Having a propensity for falling in love |
| Atheism | The denial of the existence of God |
| Autonomous | Self-governing |
| Palatial | Magnificant |
| Peremptory | Precluding question of appeal |
| Persistance | A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like |
| Phenomenon | Any unusual occurrence |
| Poignant | Severely painful or acute to the spirit |
| Precedence | Priority in place, time, or rank |
| Pugnacious | Quarrelsome |
| Reciprocate | To give and take mutually |
| Revelation | A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown |
| Salutation | Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act |
| Sardonic | Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic |
| Soliloquy | A monologue |
| Stimulant | Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action |
| Tantamount | Having equal of equivalent value, effect, or import |
| Trepidation | Nervous uncertainty of felling |
| Ungainly | Clumsy |
| Alteration | Change or modification |
| Alliance | Any combination or union for some common purpose |
| Tolerable | Moderately good |
| Stagnate | To become dull or inert; not flowing or changing |
| Rudimentary | Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development |
| Beseech | To beg or implore |
| Reminiscence | Calling to mind incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience |
| Ravenous | Furiously voracious or hungry |
| Preamble | A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows |
| Perpetrator | The doer of a wrong or criminal act |
| Omission | Exclusion; left out |
| Litigant | To cause to become the subject matter of a lawsuit |
| Interminable | Having no limit or end |
| Immaculate | Without spot or blemish |
| Adieu | Goodby; farewell |
| Affluence | A profuse or abundant supply of riches |
| Ambidextrous | Having the ability of using both nhands with equal skill or ease |
| Antonym | A word directly opposed to another in meaning |
| Buoyant | Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat |
| Exclamation | An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling |
| Extemporaneous | Done or made without much or any preparation |
| Inference | The derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law. |
| Jurisprudence | The science of rights in accordance with positive law |
| Mausoleum | A tomb or more than ordinary sixe or architectural pretensions |
| Mnemonics | A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances |
| Obnoxious | Detestable |
| Pendulum | A weight hung on a rod serving by is oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock |
| Stupendous | Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree |
| Promotion | Raising in rank or postition |
| Translucent | Allowing the passage of light |
| Valedictorian | Has the highest GPA or a student who delivers an address at graduation |
| Zealot | One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner |
| Vigilance | Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger |
| Transposition | The act of reversing the order or changing the place of |
| Symmetrical | Evenlu, well-balanced, same on both sides |
| Skepticism | The entertainment of doubt concerning something |
| Reservoir | A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept |
| Quarantine | Enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease |
| Prologue | A beginning statement or explanation to a poem, story, or performance |
| Plagiarism | The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own |
| Perpendicular | Meeting a given line or surface at right angles |
| Paradox | A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief |
| Oration | An eleaborate or formal public speech |
| Nocturnal | Of or pertaining to the night |
| Mainifesto | A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or motives |
| Linguist | One who is familiar with several languages |
| Itinerant | One who wanders from place to place |
| Hiatus | A break or interruption in the process of something |
| Frivolous | Trivial, unimportant |
| Convoluted | Highly complex or intricate, overlapping details |
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