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Vocab Group #1
June 15 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Aberration | the act of deviating from the normal or usual |
Abstruse | hard to understand; recondite; esoteric |
Aquiesce | to agree or comply without protest |
Acrimonious | caustic; stinging; bitter |
Admonish | to caution, advise, reprove, or scold |
Anomoly | a deviation from the norm; and odd or peculiar contition or state |
Antithesis | the direct opposite |
Apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity; false, spurious |
Arduous | laborious, strenuous, difficult |
Assiduous | diligent, persevering |
Auspicious | propitious, favorable, fortunate |
Aver | to assert or affirm with confidence |
Cajole | to persuade by flattery or promises; to coax, to wheedle |
Capitulate | to give up or surrender |
Chimera | a grotesque monster; a horrible imaginary creature |
Clairvoyant | able to see what is not ordinarily visible |
Brevity | Briefness or conciseness in speech or writing |
Concise | using few words in speaking or writing |
Laconic | using few words in speech |
Pithy | brief and full of meaning and substance; concise |
Quiescent | quiet; still; inactive |
Reticent | not talking much; reserved |
Succinct | clearly and briefly stated; concise |
Taciturn | silent; sparing of words; close-mouthed |
Terse | using only the words that are needed to make the point; very concise, sometimes to the point of rudeness |
Bombastic | using language in a pompous, showy way; speaking to impress others |
Circumlocution | speaking in circles; roundabout speech |
Colloquial | pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational |
Diffuse | spread out; not concise; wordy |
Digress | to wander away from the subject or topic spoken about |
Eloquence | Artful ease with speaking; speech that can influence people's feelings |
Garrulous | Talkative; loquacious |
Grandiloquent | using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others |
Loquacious | very talkative; liking to talk; garrulous |
Prattle | to speak on and on in a senseless and silly manner; to talk foolishly |
Ramble | To talk on and on pointlessly, without clear direction |
Rant | To talk very loudly, even wildly; rave |
Rhetorical | Relation to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; in sincere in expression |
Verbose | using too many words; wordy; long-winded |
Voluble | talking a great deal with ease; glib |
Arrogant | overbearing; proud; haughty |
Braggart | one who boasts a great deal |
Complacent | self-satisfied; smug |
Contemptuous | lacking respect; scornful |
Disdainful | full of bitter scorn and pride; aloof |
Egotistical | excessively self-absorbed; very conceited |
Haughty | having great pride in oneself and dislike for others |
Insolent | boldly disrespectful in speech or behaviour; rude |
Narcissistic | having to do with extreme self-adoration and a feeling of superiority to everyone |
Ostentatious | Having to do with showing off; pretentious |
Presumptuous | too forward or bold; overstepping proper bounds |
Pretentious | claiming or pretending increased importance; ostentatious; affectedly grand |
Supercilious | looking down on others; proud and scornful |
Swagger | to walk around in a proud, showy manner; to boast in a loud manner |
Banal | dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed |
Cliché | an idea or expression that has become stale due to overuse |
Derivative | unoriginal; taken from something already existing |
Hackneyed | made commonplace by overuse; trite |
Insipid | lacking flavor or taste; unexciting |
Lackluster | lacking vitality, energy, or brightness; boring |
Mundane | commonplace; ordinary |
Platitude | quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original |
Prosaic | dull; commonplace |
Trite | unoriginal and stale due to overuse |
Vapid | lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale |
Acme | the highest point or stage |
Apex | the highest or culminating point |
Apogee | the farthest or highest point |
Peak | the highest level or greatest degree |
Pinnacle | the highest point of development or achievement |
Summit | top, apex; especially the highest point; peak |
Zenith | culminating point : acme <at the zenith of his powers> |
Abyss | intellectual or moral depths |
Chasm | a marked division, separation, or difference |
Nadir | the lowest point |
Adept | skilled; competent |
Inept | unskilled; incompetent |
Amity | friendship; trust |
Enmity | hatted; bitter feeling |
Approbation | approval |
Opprobium | shameful disgrace |
Avert | turn away |
Divert | amuse; entertain |