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G and C Vocab Final
Vocab
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| Conducive | tending to cause or bring about contribution |
| Affluent | having an abundance of wealth; prosperity |
| Facilitate | To make easy or easier |
| Innocuous | harmless, not likely to offend or provoke |
| Integral | essential, vital |
| Nonchalant | seeming to be cooly unconcerned, not easily excited, even under pressure |
| Pompous | exaggerated shoe of dignity or self importance |
| Propagate | to spread or transmit, to spread knowledge |
| Stolid | having or revealing little emotion or intrest |
| Tangible | possible to touch |
| Emulate | to seek to be like; to imitate |
| Flagrant | obviously offensive; deliberate and conspicuous behavior |
| Gregarious | seeking and enjoying the company of others; wanting to socialize |
| Innumerable | too numerous to be counted |
| Monotonous | tediously repetitious or lacking in variety |
| Ostracize | to exclude from normal social or professional activities |
| Suave | smoothly agreeable and courteous |
| Succinct | clearly expressed in few words |
| Vindictive | revengeful; unforgiving and bitter |
| Volatile | tending or threatening to break out in violence |
| Affinity | a natural liking or attraction to a person |
| Benevolence | a desire to do good to others |
| Complacent | marked by self satisfaction; lack of concern |
| Condescend | to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior |
| Docile | easily managed or handled |
| Dogmatic | often arrogant and stubborn |
| Momentous | extremely memorable |
| Poignant | affecting or moving the emotions |
| Satiate | to satisfy; to totally fill |
| Transcendent | being above and independent of the material universe |
| Catalyst | Something that stimulates a reaction |
| Chronic | subject to habit or pattern of behavior for a long time; continuing a long time |
| Emaciated | extremely thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh |
| Exude | to flow or leak out slowly |
| Impervious | not permitting penetration or passage; incapable of being influenced |
| Nugatory | of no real value; without worth or significance |
| Ostentaion | boastful showiness; pretentious display meant to impress others |
| Patronize | to treat in a condescending manner |
| Trepidation | a state of fear or anxiety |
| Vociferous | characterized by vehemence, clamor or noisiness; making an outcry or loud noise |
| Austere | severe or stern |
| Cogent | effective in thought and expression; based on good judgement |
| Congenial | agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or charaxter |
| Definitive | the quality of being final, ultimate |
| Expedient | fit or suitable for the purpose |
| Malice | a desire to harm others |
| Temerity | boldness or disregard for danger |
| Tentative | not fully worked out or agreed upon |
| Vehement | Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intencity of emotion or conviction |
| Wary | Cautious; trying to avoid danger |
| Aesthetic | having to do with beauty, emotion, sensation |
| Avarice | greed, excessive desire |
| Belligerent | inclined, or eager to fight |
| Incontestable | positive, undeniable, certain |
| Invariable | never changing, incapable of being changed |
| Intuition | a natural ability to know something without proof |
| Meticulous | extremely careful and precise |
| Precarious | dangerously lacking in security or stability that threatens danger; subject to chance or unknown conditions |
| Retribution | the act of punishing or taking vengence |
| Sagecious | the quality of being discerning, wise, sound in judgement |
| Ardent | passionate, intense feeling, intensely devoted |
| Arduous | imposing a severe test of bodily or spiritual strength |
| Augur | to give promise or foreshadow |
| Despondency | depression of spirits from loss of hope |
| Divulge | to disclose or reveal |
| Florid | bright in color |
| Formidable | arousing fear, dread or alarm |
| Gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| Profane | not acceptable according to certain standards |
| Thwart | to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose |
| Aberration | deviation from what is normal |
| Condone | to pardon, to overlook |
| Cornucopia | Something that holds an abundance, an overflowing supply |
| Hyperbole | an extravagant exaggeration |
| Ingratiate | to establish oneself in the favor of good graces of another |
| Iota | a very small quantity |
| Pernicious | tending to cause harm; destructive |
| Rapport | a relationship, especially one characterized by sympathetic understanding or mutual trust |
| Turbid | Opaque with or as if with stirred up sediemnt |
| Wheedle | to influence or persuade through smooth, flattering or beguiling words or acts; |
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