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Vocabulary Semester1
our words for first semester - cumulative through the whole year!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| N- floating debris | flotsam |
| Adj - habitually quiet or silent | taciturn |
| Adj - very "into" or passionate about | avid |
| Adj- weak, feeble | feckless |
| Adj - negative, demeaning; tending to make worse | pejorative |
| N - use of a lot of unnecessary words | verbosity |
| Adj - weak, cowardly | pusillanimous |
| N- strong fortess | bastion |
| Adj- capable of being defended; strong | tenable |
| N - a negative or biting remark | animadversion |
| Adj - cloudy, not clear | murky |
| Adj - salty | brackish |
| Adj - first, original | primordial |
| Adj - able to get and retain material - concerned with acquiring | acquisitive |
| V- to take without right | arrogate |
| Adj - common, ordinary or everyday | banal |
| V- to work excessively on; to overdo it | belabor |
| Adj - tending to find fault in a nit-picking way AND N- nagging criticism | carping |
| Adj - holding or sticking together, understandable, making sense | coherent |
| V- to change from liquid to solid, thicken | congeal |
| V - to imitate or to copy or to ape | emulate |
| N- a formal expression or praise; a lavish tribute | encomium |
| V- to avoid to to shun | eschew |
| V - relevant, on-topic | germane |
| Adj - so great or demanding as to not be satisfied | insatiable |
| Adj - stubborn; refusing to compromise | intransigent |
| Adj - offensive, hateful | invidious |
| N - generosity in giving, lavish contributions | largesse |
| N - survey made for military purposes | reconnaissance |
| V - to establish by evidence; to prove | substantiate |
| V - to stall or to procrastinate | temporize |
| V - to approach, usually confrontationally | accost |
| N - swiftness or speed | celerity |
| Adj - straying or wandering from a direct course OR done in an underhanded, sly way | devious |
| N- an opening move, usually in chess | gambit |
| Adj - peaceful AND N- a legendary bird | halcyon |
| Adj- pertaining to actors; theatrical and dramatic | histrionic |
| Adj -deliberately causing a fire; designed to start a fire AND - N an arsonist | incendiary |
| N - a whirlpool of great size; a situation resembing a whirlpool in violence/destruction | maelstrom |
| Adj - nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view or foresight of a situation | myopic |
| Adj - open, not hidden | overt |
| N- the state of being proper or appropriate | propriety |
| N - the improper or disprespectul treatment of something sacred | sacrilege |
| Adv - without delay | summarily |
| Adj -asking humbly and earnestly AND N - one who makes a humble request | suppliant |
| N - an object that serves as a good luck charm | talisman |
| V - to move in waves or with a wave-like motion | undulate |
| V - to pronounce distinctly AND Adj -expressed clearly | articulate |
| V - to romp or to frolic | cavort |
| N - belief; credibility or trust | credence |
| V- to condemn or to express strong disapproval of | decry |
| Adj - to disguise | dissemble |
| Adj - very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or a mental conflict | distraught |
| N- a formal statement of high praise, many times associated with a funeral | eulogy |
| V - to make evident or to display clearly | evince |
| V - to remove from grave; to dig up | exhume |
| Adj - wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | nefarious |
| Adj - spicy to the taste | piquant |
| N - nearness in place or time | propinquity |
| Adj - not usual or expected; not in character | unwonted |
| Adj - involvuing a visionary or ideal world; impractical | utopian |
| N - language that is too wordy or inflated | verbiage |
| Adj - green in color OR immature in experience or judgement | verdant |
| Adj - having a gelantious or glue-like quality | viscous |
| N - wasting away of a body organ due to non-use AND V - to waste away | atrophy |
| N - a state of agreement | concord |
| Adj - complete or perfect in the highest degree AND V - to bring to a state of completion | consummate |
| N - disorder; confusion AND V - to throw into disorder | disarray |
| N - urgency; an emergency | exigency |
| Adj - frenzied or highly agitated | frenetic |
| V - to gather bit by bit | glean |
| N - a type of game bird AND V- to complain or to grumble | grouse |
| V- to imprison, confine, jail | incarcerate |
| Adj - required AND N - one who holds a specifc office at the time spoken of | incumbent |
| Adj - humorous, joking | jocular |
| Adj- ridiculous, laughable | ludicrous |
| Adj - biting or caustic in thought or manner; bitterly harsh | mordant |
| V - to irritate AND n- a stinging plant | nettle |
| Adj - having to do with financial things | pecuniary |
| Adj - in a reclining position | recumbent |
| N - a scheme or strategy | strategem |
| N- sharpness, esp. of the senses | acuity |
| V - to portray, sketch or describe in accurate details | delineate |
| Adj - marked by evial and corruption; devoid of moral principles | depraved |
| V - to weaken or lessen | enervate |
| Adj - intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret | esoteric |
| Adj - fruitful in offspring or vegetation; fertile | fecund |
| N- an order or decree | fiat |
| N - a fabrication (or creation) of the mind | figment |
| V - to acquire as a result of effort; to gather and store | garner |
| V - to make holy or to honor greatly | hallow |
| N - a pecularity that distinguishes or identifies; a weird habit | idiosyncrasy |
| N - shame; disgrace | ignominy |
| Adj - concerned with what is ordinary or everyday | mundane |
| N - a subtle or slight variation, as in color | nuance |
| Adj - conceited, presumptuous, arrogant | overweening |
| N - a strong inclination or attraction to | penchant |
| Adj - according to reputation; widespread acceptance and good reputation | reputed |
| N - reasoning that may seem ok, but is actually unsound; a fallacy | sophistry |
| Adj - costly, rich, magnificent | sumptuous |
| Adj - present or existing everywhere | ubiquitous |
| Adj - degraded, contemptible | abject |
| N - ones who believes that nothing can be known about God AND Adj - without faith; skeptical | agnostic |
| N - involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice | complicity |
| N - someone or something that is abandoned or neglected and Adj - left abandoned; neglected | derelict |
| N- a bitter and prolonged verbal attack or speech | diatribe |
| N - a crude image of a despised person | effigy |
| N - srate or quality of being equal, just | equity |
| Adj- silly, empty of meaning of value | inane |
| N - a formal accusation | indictment |
| Adj - certain, not to be doubted or denied | indubitable |
| Adj - stopping and beginning again; sporadic | intermittent |
| Adj - open to discussion and debate; unresolved | moot |
| N - a principal idea, feature, theme or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design | motif |
| N - a new convert, beginner, novice | neophyte |
| N - keenness in observing and understanding | perspicacity |
| Adj - complete in all aspects or essentials, absolute | plenary |
| N - careful, close and disciplined observation; a watch kept over a person | surveillance |
| Adj - pertaining to or characteristic of forests; wooded | sylvan |
| Adj - easily irriated; characterized by impatience and exasperation | testy |
| N - grotesque or grossly inferior imitation and V - to ridicule by imitating in a broad, burlesque fashion | travesty |
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