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English vocab #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allay | To put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet. |
| Capacious | Capable of holding much; spacious or roomy. |
| Diurnal | Of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily. |
| Extricate | To free or release from entanglement; disengage. |
| Ignominious | Marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating. |
| Mitigate | To lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. |
| Palpitate | To pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease; flutter. |
| Phlegmatic | Not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish. |
| Propitious | Presenting favorable conditions; favorable. |
| Prostrate | Lying face down. |
| Acquiesce | To assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent. |
| Amity | Friendship; peaceful harmony. |
| Arduous | Requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult. |
| Gestalt | A configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole. |
| Inundate | To flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge. |
| Perjury | Willingly giving a false testimony while under oath. |
| Perspicuity | clearness, well expressed, not vague. |
| Preposterous | Opposite to reality and common sense, utterly ridiculous. |
| Trepidation | Trembling or quivering movement, a tremor. |
| Voluble | Characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; talkative. |
| Admonish | To counsel or against something, to scold in a mild manner. |
| Aplomb | Unwavering assurance or poise; the vertical or perpendicular position. |
| Barrage | Overwhelming quantity, an explosion. |
| Cognizant | To have awareness, realization, or knowledge. |
| Collusion | A secret agreement, usually for fraud or a conspiracy. |
| Hegemony | Leadership or predominance; one power influencing another. |
| Nebulous | Cloudy, vague, confused. |
| Paradigm | Something that serves as a pattern or model, a precedent. |
| Unctuous | Unpleasantly and excessively suave or nice; excessively smooth or oily. |
| Urbane | Reflecting elegance or sophistication. |
| Ambulatory | Walking or moving around. |
| Brazen | Showing or expressing boldness and a complete lack of shame. |
| Din | A system of standard electrical connections, used especially in television and audio equipment; a system of numbers used to express the speed of a photographic film. |
| Ennui | Weariness and dissatisfaction with life that results from a loss of interest or sense of excitement. |
| Exonerate | To declare officially that somebody is not to blame or is not guilty of wrongdoing. |
| Inscrutable | Not expressing anything clearly and this hard to interpret. |
| Prognosticate | To predict or foretell future events. |
| Schism | The division of a group into mutually antagonistic factions. |
| Sedition | Actions or words intended to provoke or incite rebellion against government authority, or actual rebellion against government authority. |
| Wizened | Looking wrinkled, shriveled, or dried up. |
| Austere | Imposing or suggesting physical hardship. |
| Corpulent | Somewhat overweight. |
| Derisive | Showing contempt or ridicule. |
| Effeminate | Weak through over refinement or an absence of vigorous qualities. |
| Jocund | Cheerful and full of good humor. |
| Manifest | To make clear or evident to the eye or the understanding. |
| Ostentatious | Characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others. |
| Sanguine | Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident. |
| Strident | Having a shrill, irritating quality or character. |
| Vehement | Characterized by rancor or anger; marked by great energy; strongly emotional; intense or passionate. |
| Elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation. |
| Fecund | Very productive or creative intellectually. |
| Fortuitous | Happening or produced by chance; accidental. |
| Infirmity | A physical weakness or ailment; a moral weakness or failing. |
| Malady | Any disorder or disease of the body. |
| Nuance | A subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, and response. |
| Profligate | Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated. |
| Remonstrance | To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval. |
| Scintillate | To sparkle; flash; to twinkle, as the stars. |
| Vitiate | To impair or weaken the effectiveness of; to make legally defective or invalid. |
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