Final Vocab Cards 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Acquisitive | (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
| Acuity | (n.) sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses) |
| Aesthetic | (adj.) pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty |
| Articulate | (v.) To pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to fit together into a system; (adj.) able to use language effectively; expressed clearly and forcefully |
| Askance | (adv.) with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval |
| Belabor | (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| Cacophonous | (adj.) harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant |
| Carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism |
| Cavort | (v.) to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
| Charlatan | (n.) one who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, impostor, or quack |
| Cognizant | (adj.) aware, knowledgeable, informed; having jurisdiction |
| Coherent | (adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
| Complicity | (n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice |
| Congeal | (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
| Credence | (n.) belief, mental acceptance |
| Delineate | (v.) to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially |
| Derelict | (n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
| Diatribe | (n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| Echelon | (n) one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement |
| Eclectic | (adj.) drawn from different sources; (n.) one whose beliefs are drawn from various sources |
| Embellish | (v) to decorate, adorn, touch up; to improve by adding details |
| Emulate | (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
| Espouse | (v.) to take up and support; to become attatched to, adopt; to marry |
| Euphemism | (n.) a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a substitute |
| Exacerbate | (v) to make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful |
| Fetish | (n) an object believed to have magical powers; an object of unreasoning devotion or reverence |
| Figment | (n.) a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion |
| Foible | (n.) a weak point, failing, minor flaw |
| Garish | (adj.) glaring; tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way |
| Germane | (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
| Hallow | (v.) to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere |
| Idiosyncrasy | (n.) a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify |
| Increment | (n.) an enlargement, increase, addition |
| Incumbent | (adj.) obligatory, required; (n.) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of |
| Indigent | (adj.) needy, impoverished |
| Innate | (adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in |
| Insatiable | (adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
| Jocular | (adj) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking |
| Lackadaisical | (adj.) lacking spirit or interest; halfhearted |
| Ludicrous | (adj.) ridiculous, laughable, absurd |
| Macabre | (adj.) grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject |
| Mesmerize | (v.) to hypnotize, entrance; to fascinate, enthrall, bewitch |
| Mundane | (adj) earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary |
| Mutable | (adj.) open to or capable of change; fickle |
| Nettle | (n.) a prickly or stinging plant; (v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely |
| Nuance | (n.) a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference |
| Overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| Paucity | (n) an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth |
| Pejorative | (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
| Penitent | (adj.) regretful for one's sins or mistakes. (n.) one who is sorry for wrongdoing |
| Portend | (v.) to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen; to give advance warning of |
| Propinquity | (n.) nearness in place or time; kinship |
| Propriety | (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| Rebuff | (v.) to snub; to repel, drive away; (n.) a curt rejection, a check |
| Recumbent | (adj.) in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting |
| Reputed | (adj.) according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation |
| Rife | common, prevalent, widespread, happening often; full, abounding; plentiful, abundant, replete |
| Sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| Substantiate | (v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
| Taciturn | (adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| Travesty | (n.) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |
| Unremitting | (adj.) not stopping, maintained steadily, never letting up, relentless |
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