Vocabulary Workshop Level G Units 1-4
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soccerlynz5 on September 21, 2010
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english, ap language and composition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
| arrogate | to claim or take without right |
| banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| belabor | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| carping | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way |
| coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
| congeal | to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
| emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
| encomium | a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
| eschew | to avoid, shun, keep away from |
| germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
| insatiable | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
| invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
| largesse | generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
| reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| substantiate | to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
| taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| temporize | to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontations, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
| tenable | capable of being held or defended |
| accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
| avid | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
| brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| devious | straying or wandering form a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
| gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice fo a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
| halcyon | a legendary bird identified with the king fisher; (adj) of or relating ot the halcyon; clam, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
| histrionic | pertainig to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
| incendiary | deliberatelky setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who cause strife |
| maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
| myopic | nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
| overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| pejorative | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
| propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| summarily | without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
| suppliant | asking humply and earnestly (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
| talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| undulate | tomove in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
| articulate | to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; (adj) expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed |
| cavort | to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
| credence | belief, mental acceptance |
| decry | to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate |
| dissemble | to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression |
| distraught | very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict |
| eulogy | a formal statement of commendation; high praise |
| evince | to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke |
| exhume | to remove from a grave; to bring to light |
| feckless | lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable |
| murky | dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision |
| nefarious | wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards |
| piquant | stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative |
| primordial | developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic |
| propinquity | nearness in place or time; kinship |
| unwonted | not usual or expected; not in character |
| utopian | founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical |
| verbiage | language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expressoin |
| verdant | green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment |
| viscous | having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity |
| atrophy | the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away |
| bastion | a fortified place, stronghold |
| concord | a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant |
| consummate | complete or perfect in the highest degree; (v.) to bring to a state of completion or perfection |
| disarray | disorder, confusion; (v.) to throw into disorder |
| exigency | urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency |
| flotsam | floating debris; homeless, impoverished people |
| frenetic | frenzied, highly agitated |
| glean | to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of gran left in a field by the reapers |
| grouse | a type of game bird; a compliant; (v.) to complain, grumble |
| incarcerate | to imprison, confine, jail |
| incumbent | obligatory, required; (n.) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of |
| jocular | humorous, jesting, jolly, joking |
| ludicrous | ridiculous, laughable, absurd |
| mordant | biting or caustic in though, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh |
| nettle | a prickly or stinging plant; (v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money |
| pusillanimous | contemptible cowardly or mean-spirited |
| recumbent | in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting |
| stratagem | a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end |
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