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Vocab Am,Lit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aberration | Differs from the norm |
| Abhor | To hate; detest |
| Abrogate | To abolish authoritative action |
| Abstemious | Sparingly used or consumed |
| Acumen | Keenness of judgement or insight |
| Acquiesce | To accept or agree by staying silent |
| Acrimonious | angry or bitter |
| Adhere | Believe in and follow practices of |
| Admonish | Express criticism in a gentle way |
| Adroit | Very clever or skillful |
| Aesthetic | Relating to art or beauty |
| Aloof | cool and distant |
| Ambiguous | Open to more than one interpretation |
| Ambivalent | Having mixed feelings about something |
| Anecdote | a short and amusing relevant story |
| Antagonize (v.) | To cause someone to become hostile |
| Apprehensive (adj.) | Anxious that something bad will happen |
| Arcane (adj.) | Mysterious or secret |
| Assert (v.) | State a fact or belief confidently |
| Attribute (v.) | Acknowledge someone or something caused another thing to happen |
| Attribute (n.) | A good quality or feature |
| Auspicious (adj.) | Attended by favorable circumstances |
| Behemoth (n.) | Something of tremendous power or size |
| Belie (v.) | To give a false impression |
| Bellicose (adj.) | Warlike in manner or temperament |
| Callous (adj.) | Cold or unfeeling |
| Chicanery (n.) | A trick |
| Churlish (adj.) | Having a bad disposition |
| Chide (v.) | To voice disapproval |
| Circumlocution (n.) | Indirect language |
| Coherent (adj.) | Logical and consistent |
| Condescending (adj.) | Showing a feeling of superiority |
| Copious (adj.) | A large amount of |
| Correlate (v.) | To show a close relationship between things |
| Cryptic (adj.) | Difficult to understand |
| Cumbersome (adj.) | Hard to handle or manage because of size or weight |
| Daunting (adj.) | Intimidating enough to make one lose courage |
| Dearth (n.) | A lack; scarcity |
| Debunk (v.) | To show something is not true |
| Deciduous (adj.) | Falling off or shed at a specific season or growth |
| Deleterious (adj.) | Having a harmful effect |
| Demagogue (n.) | A political leader who gains support through emotion and false claims |
| Denigrate (v.) | To diminish the opinion of |
| Deride (v.) | To talk or write about in an insulting way |
| Devoid (adj.) | Entirely lacking or free from |
| erroneous | wrong; not correct |
| evanescent | vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor |
| evolve | to change or develop slowly into a more advanced state; to develop by a process of evolution |
| expurgate | to remove erroneous vulgar obscene or otherwise objectionable material from a book before publication |
| facetious | playfully joking often inappropriately; humorous |
| fatuous | smugly and unconsciously foolish; silly and pointless |
| feckless | feeble or ineffective; careless and irresponsible |
| feign | pretend to be affected by a feeling |
| filibuster | the use of obstructionist tactics |
| fleeting | lasting for a very short time |
| futile | having no result or effect; pointless or useless |
| gauche | lacking social polish; tactless |
| gerrymander | to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections |
| glaring | extremely obvious or conspicuous |
| grievous | causing grief pain or anguish; serious in nature |
| haughty (adj.) | disdainfully proud |
| harangue (n.) | a ranting speech |
| harangue (v.) | to give such a speech |
| hegemony (n.), pl. -nies | the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group |
| homogeneous (adj.) | consisting of parts that are the same |
| hubris (n.) | overbearing pride |
| iconoclast (n.) | a person who criticizes or opposes beliefs and practices that are widely accepted |
| idiosyncratic (adj.) | peculiar to one person |
| imminent (adj.) | about to happen |
| impasse (n.) | a situation in which no progress seems possible |
| impeach (v.) | to charge a public official with improper conduct in office |
| impeach (v.) | to challenge the validity of |
| impetus (n.) | a stimulus or encouragement resulting in increased activity |
| impervious (adj.) | unable to be affected by |
| incendiary (adj.) | tending to stir up conflict |
| incendiary (adj.) | designed to cause fires |
| incognito (adv. & adj.) | with one's identity disguised or concealed |
| incontrovertible (adj.) | impossible to dispute |
| incremental (adj.) | increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions |
| inculcate (v.) | to impress something upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition |
| indigenous (adj.) | produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular region or environment |
| infer (v.) | to form an opinion from evidence and reasoning |
| infrastructure (n.) | an underlying base or foundation, especially for an organization or a system |
| innocuous (adj.) | not likely to bother or offend anyone |
| irony (n.), pl. -nies | the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning |
| judicious (adj.) | having or exercising sound judgment |
| kinetic (adj.) | of, relating to, or produced by motion |
| kowtow (v). | to show extreme deference, often seen as excessive flattery |
| laudatory (adj.) | expressing admiration or praise |
| lethargic (adj.) | feeling a lack of energy or interest in doing things |
| lexicon (n.) | a stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style: a vocabulary |
| loquacious (adj.) | very talkative |
| lugubrious (adj.) | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated degree |
| diatribe (n.) | an angry and usually long speech or piece of writing that strongly criticizes someone or something |
| diffuse (adj.) | spread out over a large area; not concentrated |
| diffident (adj.) | Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid. |
| differentiate (v.) | to see or state the difference or differences between two or more things |
| digress (v.) | leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing |
| draconian (adj.) | very severe or cruel, especially regarding certain laws or policies |
| dynamic (adj.) | characterized by constant change, activity, or progress |
| eclipse (n.) | a loss of significance, power, or prominence in relation to another person or thing |
| eminent (adj.) | famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession |
| enervate (v) -vat·ed, -vat·ing, -vates | To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of. |
| egregious (adj.) | extremely bad |
| epiphany (n.) | 1. When a god appears to someone. 2. A sudden and profound understanding of something. |
| emulate (v.) | to imitate |
| enmity (n.) | ill will, hatred, hostility |
| erode (v.) | to gradually destroy (something) or to be gradually destroyed by natural forces such as water, wind, or ice |
| magnanimous | noble, generous |
| metamorphosis | a transformation; a noticeable change in appearance, character, condition, or function |
| minute | extremely small |
| misanthrope | a person who does not like or distrusts other people |
| mitigate | to make something less severe, harmful, or painful |
| nanotechnology | the science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from individual atoms and molecules |
| nebulous | vaguely defined; cloudy |
| nefarious | evil or immoral |
| neophyte | a person who has just started learning or doing something |
| nihilism | the viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless; a doctrine denying objective truth, especially moral truths; an extreme philosophical skepticism that denies all existence |
| nomenclature | a system of terms used in an art or science |
| nonsectarian | not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination |
| nostalgia | a sentimental longing or affection for the past |
| obfuscate | to render incomprehensible |
| obsequious | exhibiting fawning attentiveness; obedient |
| omit | to leave out or exclude intentionally or forgetfully |
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