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Finals - Vocab
84 Words: Teacher - Wester. School - San Pasqual HS
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abhorrence | arrousing disaproval |
| Acquiescence | agreeing in a passive way |
| Acquit | To free from guilt |
| Adamant | impossible to persuade |
| Allude | To refer to indirectly |
| Amicably | Pleasent and Friendly in conversation |
| Arbitrary | Chance |
| Avaricious | A strong desire to gain wealth |
| Cantankerous | arguing and complaining |
| Capricious | A foolish desire |
| Cogitation | To spend time thinking |
| Commodious | spacious |
| Conciliate | to end a disagreement |
| Condemned | To critizize |
| Counfound | confused |
| Congenial | pleasent and friendly |
| Contemptable | disrespectful and disliked/deserving contempt |
| Contrive | to arrange or come up with |
| Contumacious | resistant to authority or disobeying court of law |
| Countenance | facial appearance |
| Degradation | to degrade, make feel worthless |
| Dexterous | Skillful with the hands |
| Diffident | lacking confidence |
| Dilate | to swell |
| Dissipate | to dissapear |
| Doleful | very sad |
| Elocution | a way of speaking, pronounced and clear - ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING |
| Eloquent | a strong message |
| Elucidate | explanation or making clear |
| Encumbered | wayed down |
| Enigma | mysterious |
| Erudition | specialized knowledge |
| Exonerate | to state one is not guilty (opposite of acquit) |
| Felicitious | suitable |
| Ferment | to change chemically/confusion |
| Foray | entering and leaving quickly in a raid |
| Frugally | careful in using money |
| Gallant | brave |
| Hinder | to limit |
| Hone | to sharpen an object |
| Impertinent | rude or not respectful. |
| Imprudently | unwise |
| Incensed | to cause great anger HINT: Censed reminds of fire which reminds of anger |
| Ingenuous | honest, sincere, and trusting HINT: inGENUOUS reminds of "genuine" |
| Interpose | put in middle of, interupt |
| Irascible | Easily made angry HINT: irascible makes think of iractionalbe |
| Jocose | amusing or playful -HINT- Jocose make think of "jokes" |
| Languid | speaking with little energy often attractivly -HINT- Languid thinks of "language" |
| Manifest | to show clearly, very obvious |
| Meritorious | derserving credit or great praise -HINT- MERITorious |
| Mollified | Calm or soothe |
| Obdurate | determined to act in a way that will not change even with persuasion. adamant. refuses to change mind. |
| Ostentatious | overly showy |
| Palliate | to make less intense -HINT- paLLIate...lli in less intense |
| Penitent | showing regret/performing a religious act to show regret |
| Pernicious | harmful effect |
| Pinioned | held against the wall/feathers or wings of a bird -HINT- PINioned reminds of pinned to wall |
| Plaintive | sounds slightly sad |
| Propitiate | to please a person who is annoyed with you |
| Ravenously | extremely hungry |
| Reciprocate | to move backward and foward in an alternative motion -HINT- recipricate reminds of reciprocal which means opposite which reminds of alternate |
| Recompense | to pay back someone |
| Redolent | smelling strongly or something or having qualities that remind of something else -HINT- REdolent...REmind |
| Remonstrate | to complain to someone or about something -HINT- Remonstrate agains bad Rules |
| Reticent | reserved or shy -HINT- REticent...REserved |
| Rueful | expressing regret or feeling sorry -HINT- rueful and regret |
| Sagacious | wise |
| Sanctify | to make holy |
| Sibilant | pronounced with a hissing sound -HINT- proffeso SIBBLE trenlay in HP related to parseltounge |
| Sojourn | a short period where a person stays in a particular place -HINT- Short Journey |
| Spurious | false or not what its supposed to be |
| Staunch | loyal or strongly |
| Tarnish | to become dull or discolered |
| Taunt | tease or annoy |
| Traverse | to move or travel over |
| Truculent | tending to argue a lot or unpleasent |
| Vestige | something not fully developed -HINT- vestigal bones from biology |
| Vicarious | experienced by watching others instead of first hand |
| Virtuous | having good qualities and behaviour |
| Viscous | a sticky liquid |
| Vivaciously | approving |
| Volition | power to make own descions -HINT- on your own VOLITON...volition and descision |
| Wrathful | extreme anger |
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