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1st.MGrier
Sadlier Vocabulary Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allay | when you want to make something better or eliminate fears and concerns. |
| asinine | Anything that's asinine is truly stupid or foolish. |
| bemused | you're muddled or preoccupied. |
| castigate | o reprimand in an especially harsh way." |
| contrive | When you contrive, you make a plan or a plot. |
| despotic | A ruler who governs with an iron fist, caring little for the welfare of the people, can be called despotic. |
| doggedly | acting in a persistent, stubborn, or tenaciously determined manner, often while facing difficult circumstances or refusing to give up |
| egregious | Something that is egregious stands out, but not in a good way — it means "really bad or offensive. |
| exude | To exude is to give off small amounts, usually of liquids or gases, through small openings, such as pores. |
| forbear | When you forbear, you hold yourself back from doing something. |
| ignominious | Losing a football game stinks, but losing a game where, at the end, you are lying face down in a puddle of mud and the fans are burning effigies of you in the streets? That is an ignominious defeat. |
| indolent | Indolent is an adjective meaning slow or lazy. |
| irascible | If you're irascible, you get angry easily — perhaps blowing up in rage when someone brushes into you. |
| morose | A morose person is sullen, gloomy, sad, glum, and depressed — not a happy camper. |
| pecuniary | If something has to do with money, it's pecuniary. |
| predilection | A predilection is a preference for or bias toward something |
| pugnacious | Pugnacious means ready for a fight. |
| reproof | A reproof is a negative comment, reprimand, or rebuke. |
| stupor | You’re not in a stupor if you’re reading this. |
| viscous | Viscous means sticky, gluey and syrupy. |
| acrimonious | Locked in a mean-spirited, bitter argument? That's an acrimonious situation |
| affable | Affable means friendly, pleasant, and easy to talk to. |
| belie | To belie means to contradict. |
| cadence | The word cadence has its own lovely cadence — rhythm of sound as it's spoken. |
| contend | To defend a belief or keep affirming that it's true is to contend. |
| derision | If people are laughing at you, making fun of you, and acting as if you're worthless, they're treating you with derision. |
| disseminate | Disseminate means to spread information, knowledge, opinions widely. |
| edict | If your mom orders you to clean your room, that's an order. |
| extraneous | Extraneous means coming from the outside, like the extraneous noise you hear when you're in a theater and a train passes |
| hiatus | A temporary gap, pause, break, or absence can be called a hiatus. |
| imbue | To imbue is to fill up with or become "soaked" in an idea or emotion, as a sponge takes in water. |
| invective | Invective is harsh, abusive language, like "you dirty rotten scoundrel. |
| languorous | To be languorous is to be dreamy, lackadaisical, and languid. When someone is languorous, she’s lying around, daydreaming, possibly fanning herself lazily. |
| lurid | Something lurid is vivid and attention-grabbing in a shocking, graphic, or horrible way. that pulls them in. |
| partisan | If something is prejudicial towards a particular point of view, you can call it partisan. |
| precipitate | Precipitate usually means "bringing something on" or "making it happen" — and not always in a good way. |
| provincial | A provincial person comes from the backwaters. |
| sagacious | Use the formal adjective sagacious to describe someone who is wise and insightful like an advisor to the president or a Supreme Court justice. |
| stolid | A stolid person can’t be moved to smile or show much sign of life, in much the same way as something solid, like a giant boulder, is immovable. |
| visage | Visage is a literary term for referring to someone's face or facial features. |
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