VOCAB FINAL
.Conflagration – noun, a large destructive fire
.Beguile – verb, to deceive or mislead through trickery
.Benevolent – adjective, naturally good
.Bequeath – verb, to bestow via will
-Bleak – adjective, gray, bland, boring
.Brevity – noun, briefness in duration
.Cacophonous – adjective, loud
.Cajole – verb, to persuade someone via flattery
Candor – noun, honesty/directness
Censure – verb, disapproval
.Acrid – adjective, unpleasantly pungent
.Accessible – adjective, easily reached
.Accolade – noun, a sign of praise; an award
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.Assimilate – verb, to integrate, usually in terms of society
.Catharsis – noun, emotional release
Edict – noun, a formal proclamation
.Exemplary – adjective, serving as an example of
.Exhaustive – adjective, using all the energy of
.Expedient – adjective, appropriate for the given situation
.Extol – verb, to glorify
.Exuberance – noun, excitement or enthusiasm
Fallacious – adjective, containing mistaken belief
.Falter – verb, to stagger in one’s course
.Fanaticism – noun, extreme enthusiasm, to the point of radical behavior or annoyance
.Fathom – verb, to comprehend
.Florid – adjective, flowery or ornate
.Frivolous – adjective, unimportant
Furtive – adjective, secretive
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.Garrulous – adjective, wordy
.Genteel – adjective, well-mannered
.Gravity – noun, the seriousness of something
Gregarious – adjective, friendly, living communally
.Guile – noun, cunning and deceitfulness
.Gullible – adjective, easily duped
.Hackneyed – adjective, ordinary/unimaginative; clichéd
.Heresy – noun, an unorthodox opinion that conflicts with established beliefs
.Homogeneous – adjective, of the same kind
.Iconoclastic – adjective, the burning of religious objects
Idiosyncrasy – noun, an unusual response to something; quirk
Ignominy – noun, disgrace or dishonor
.Illicit – adjective, illegal
.Impede – verb, to hinder or interfere with
.Inception – noun, the beginning
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Diffident - adjective, hesitant
"The jury was diffident in their ruling"
Enervate - verb, to reduce the mental vigor of; weaken
"The army enervated the villages, inducing fear and intimidation in many"
Enfranchise - verb, to give voting rights to
"I enfranchised the slave"
.Hubris - noun, pride
"Othello's hubris, was his tragic flaw, because it prevented him from
speaking to his wife"
.Incontrovertible - adjective, inarguable
"The evidence was incontrovertible: It was certain he had cancer"
.Infrastructure - noun, the 'building-blocks' or base for something
"By razing commercial freeways and ports, the infrastructure of a town
would be harmed"
.Filibuster - noun, the use of dilatory tactics
"The congressman's filibuster of the controversial bill bought time"
Gauche - adjective, lacking social skills; awkward
"While maintaining a 4.5 grade point average, the girl was gauche, and a social vegetable"
.Recapitulate - verb, to restate briefly; summarize
"As I had missed the first bit of class, I asked my teacher to recapitulate
the beginning of his lecture"
.Facetious - adjective, joking inappropriately
"As Dr. House has zero sensitivity, as he is often facetious towards his
patients, openly mocking them"
Fatuous - adjective, silly; foolish
"Not knowing what lurked below the sea, the fatuous man took a swim,
which would soon lead to his death"
Feckless - adjective, weak; ineffective
"The bill was feckless, and didn't address its purpose at all"
.Fiduciary - noun, one who property or power is entrusted
"My fiduciary held all of my mother’s belongings after she died"
Subjugate - adjective, to conquer
"After occupying the dangerous area, in order to maintain control,
the army was subjugate in their rule"
.Suffragist - noun, one who advocates for the rights of women
"Iago is definitely not a suffragist, as he believes women are inferior"
Inculcate - verb, to teach through repetition
"The teacher inculcated the point obnoxiously"
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Usurp – verb, to seize and hold, unrightfully
“The client usurped the old man’s rights ”
.Venerate – verb, to honour
“The war hero was venerated by his people”
.Verbose – adjective, containing more words than necessary
“the speech was verbose, and filled with long ‘rambly’ phrases”
Viable – adjective, capable of living
“The squirrel’s nest was viable, and hospitable to other squirrels”
Vilify – verb, to lower in importance
“I vilified the document, by noting another document that said the same thing, in a better way”
.Vindicate – verb, to set free; liberate OR to prove right
“I vindicated the horse, by setting it free in a large field”
.Visceral – adjective, deep seated (felt inside yourself)
“The visceral hate I have towards the man affected my descision”
.Waggish – adjective, humorous
“The man’s demeanor was waggish, yet nonchalant”
.Xenophobia – noun, fear of strangers
“The toddler had xenophobia, and hated being around anyone except those he knew”
.Zealot – noun, a fanatic
“The religious zealot was arguing why Christianity was the best religion”
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.Inclusive - adjective, encompassing
.Indefatigable - Adjective, unable to be exhausted
.Inert - adjective, immobile/lacking life.
.Infidel – noun, an unbeliever
.Inherent - Adjective, belonging in nature
.Intrepid - adjective, brave/courageous
.Ironic - adjective, contradictory in nature or meaning
Irresolute - adjective, uncertain of how to act; indecisive
. Labyrinth - noun, a maze
Languish - verb, to become weak
.Laud - noun, praise/applaud
.Lavish - adjective, copious/profuse, in amount
Lithe - adjective, easily bent
Loquacious - adjective, full of excessive talk; garrulous
.Lurid - adjective, causing horror or revulsion
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.Malicious - Adjective - harmful
.Meander – Verb, to follow an indirect route
Misanthrope - Noun , someone who hates people and humanity
Mnemonic – Noun, a short phrase to make memorizing easier
Mollify – Verb, to make something less hard/rigid, to make someone feel better
Morose – Adjective, gloomy.
.Mundane – Adjective, ordinary
Obdurate – Verb, stubborn
Objective – Adjective, free of bias
.Obstinate – Adjective, stubborn
.Ominous – Adjective, dark, mysterious, showing signs of foreboding
.Ornate – Adjective, fancy
.Ostentatious – Adjective, showy
Paradigm - noun, typical example
.Pariah – noun, outcast
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.Paucity – adjective, smallness in number
.Peripheral – adjective, insignificant unrelated
Pervasive – adjective, omnipresent
.Pithy – adjective, brief, and to the point
.Pretentious – adjective, made to look/sound important
.Quiescent – adjective, at rest
Rancor – noun, resentment/deep seated ill will
.Raze – verb, to utterly destroy
.Rebuttal – noun, a legal repeal that goes against the set belief
.Recluse – noun, someone who lives away from society
.Reprehensible – adjective, deserving to be censured
Rescind – verb, to cancel something
Resigned – verb, to leave one’s job, or to accept something reluctantly
.Resplendent – adjective, shining brilliantly
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Reticence – noun, silence, hesitance
.Rhetorical – adjective, merely for effect
.Sage – noun, a wise-man, who became wise by experience
.Satirical – adjective, using sarcasm, to ridicule or criticize faults
.Savory – adjective, respectable/morally acceptable
.Sedentary – adjective, at rest
.Servile – adjective, too obedient; slave-like
.Soporific – adjective, sleep inducing
.Static – noun, conflict
Sycophant – noun, a suck-up
Taciturn – noun, one who is silent
.Torpor – noun, dormancy
Trite – adjective, overused/clichéd
.Truncate – to make better by shortening
.Unprecedented – adjective, having no earlier parallel
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Abjure – verb, to formally renounce
.Antebellum – adjective, before war
Auspicious – adjective, promising well for future
Bellicose – adjective, warlike
.Churlish – adjective, rude
Abrogate verb, to do away with something
Acumen – sharpness of mind
Bowdlerize – verb, to censor, usually in terms of literature
Chicanery – noun, cheating or deception
.Circumnavigate – verb, to go around