Kehler English 3 First Semester
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Labyrinth | complicated maze or winding series of corridors |
| Lacerate | to rip, maul, tear, mutilate, or mangle |
| Lackadaisical | uncaring; lacking in interest or spirit |
| Laconic | not saying much; brief; terse; concise; succinct |
| Lambaste | to thrash, maul, beat, whip, or bludgeon with big things and other fun stuff; to scold sharply or rebuke |
| Languid | lacking energy; weak |
| Languish | to lose strength; waste away |
| Languor | languidness; sluggishness |
| Larceny | stealing |
| Lascivious | lusty; lewd |
| Lassitude | listlessness; a state of exhaustion or weakness |
| Latent | potential but not yet displayed |
| Laud | to praise |
| Laudatory | praiseful |
| Lecherous | lewd; lustful; given to sexual activity |
| Lethal | deadly |
| Lethargy | sluggishness; indifference |
| Lewd | indecent; obscene |
| Licentious | immoral; morally wild or sexually unrestrained |
| Limacine | pertaining to or resembling a slug |
| Lithe | graceful; supple; limber; moving lightly |
| Loathe | to hate |
| Lucubration | hard, scholarly studying |
| Lugubrious | mournful or sad |
| Bacchanalian | orgiastic; like wild drunken revelry |
| Baleful | referst to something that exerts an evil influence or forshadows evil |
| Baneful | refers to something that rhymes with painful-which deadly things tend to be. |
| Barrister | lawyer |
| Bawdy | obscene; coarse; humorous |
| Beatific | displaying or imparting joy |
| Begrudge | to envy; to resent |
| Beguile | trick |
| Belated | delayed; late |
| Bellicose | violent; warlike |
| Benevolent | kind |
| Berate | to scold severly |
| Bereft | lacking something needed |
| Betroth | to become engaged |
| Biennial | every two years |
| Bland | not stimulating; dull |
| Blandishment | flattery |
| Blighted | ruined; destroyed; withered |
| Boisterous | rowdy |
| Bombastic | grandiloquent in speech or writing |
| Braggadocio | cockiness; a braggart |
| Brevity | briefness |
| Brusque | brief; curt; gruff; discourteous |
| Bucolic | pastoral; typical of farms and rural life |
| Bumptious | self-assertive |
| Burgeon | to grow; sprout; flourish |
| Burnish | to polish |
| Sparse | thinly spread or distributed; not crowded |
| Stagnant | not moving or flowing; motionless, stationary |
| Stagnate | to be stagnant |
| Static | rest; stationary |
| Steadfast | fixed or unchanging |
| Stolid | showing little emotion or pain; emotionally solid |
| Submission | the act of yielding to the authority of another |
| Subvert | to overthrow or undermine the power of |
| Succulent | juicy; interesting |
| Suffrage | right to vote; franchise |
| Summon | to call forth; to call together |
| Supercilious | haughty; conceited; disdainful |
| Superfluous | beyond what's necessary; extra |
| Superlative | most; of the highest order; surpassing all others |
| Supersede | to take the place of |
| Surreptitious | done clandestinely (secretly) or by stealth |
| Swindle | to cheat or defraud |
| Sycophant | servile person who follows and flatters another person in the hope of winning favor |
| Synthetic | not real; man-made; fabricated |
| Saga | long adventure story |
| Sagacious | wise |
| Salacious | lecherous; erotically stimulating |
| Sanguine | reddish, blood-colored optimistic; cheerful |
| Scanty | insufficient; small |
| Scrutiny | Inspection; study; careful searching |
| Sedate | to soothe, calm or tranquilize |
| Sedative | something, usually a drug, that sedates |
| Sedition | conduct or language inciting rebellion against authority |
| Sequester | to separate, set apart, isolate |
| Servile | humbly yielding; submissive |
| Shiftless | lazy; showing lack of motivation; incompetent |
| Simultaneous | happening at the same time |
| Sinister | foreboding of evil |
| Skeptical | doubting; disbelieving |
| Sloth | indolence; inactivity |
| Slovenly | messy; characteristic of a slob |
| Somber | dark; dull; gloomy |
| Soporific | sleep-inducing |
| Nadir | absolutely lowest point |
| Naive | lacking in worldly wisdom or experience |
| Nascent | coming into being; emerging |
| Nefarious | evil |
| Nemesis | vengeful enemy |
| Neologism | a newly coined word, phrase, or experience |
| Neophyte | beginner |
| Nexus | bond or link between things |
| Noisome | offensive; disgusting; filthy; malodorous |
| Nonchalant | appearing casual, cool, indifferent, chilled out |
| Nonplussed | perplexed; baffled |
| Notorious | famous for something bad; infamous |
| Novel | new; unusual; indifferent |
| Novice | beginner; person new to something |
| Noxious | harmful to health or morals |
| Nuance | subtle variation in color, meaning or some other quality |
| Wanton | immoral; unchaste; cruel |
| Whim | capricious, freakish idea |
| Wily | crafty |
| Wistful | yearning; wishful with a hint of sadness |
| Wrath | anger; rage |
| Zany | crazy; insane |
| Zeal | enthusiasm |
| Zealous | full of zeal |
| Zenith | peak; summit; acme |
| Zest | gusto; happy and vivacious enjoyment |
| Obdurate | hardened against good influence |
| Oblivion | state of being totally forgotten |
| Obsequious | fawning; too easily compliant |
| Obsolete | out of style; outdated |
| Obstreperous | unruly; defiant; boisterous |
| Obtrude | to force oneself or one's ideas on others; to extrude; to stick out |
| Obtuse | stupid, thick-headed |
| Occult | pertaining to supernatural phenomena |
| Odious | offensive; hateful |
| Officious | obnoxious and pushy in giving opinions |
| Ogle | to stare at |
| Olfactory | pertaining to the sense of smell |
| Omnipotent | all-powerful |
| Omniscient | all-knowing |
| Onerous | burdensome |
| Opulent | rich |
| Orifice | small hole, opening, or vent |
| Oscillate | to swing back and forth |
| Ostensible | apparent; seeming (but usually not really) |
| Ostentatious | showy; pretentious |
| Ostracize | to banish or exclude |
| Overt | open and observable, not hidden (see COVERT) |
| ebullient | bubbly; overflowing with excitement |
| edify | to enlighten; educate |
| educe | to elicit |
| efface | to erase; rub out |
| effete | tired; barren; decadent |
| effigy | dummy, usually for symbolic torturing |
| elation | exhilaration; joy |
| emaciated | excessively thin; weak |
| emulate | to imitate closely |
| epitaph | memorial text carved on a tombstone |
| epitome | something that perfectly represents an entire class of things; embodiment |
| equestrian | pertaining to horsemanship; on horseback |
| equipoise | equality; balance; equilibrium |
| equivocal | capable of two interpretations; ambiguous |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by small amounts |
| erudite | scholarly |
| eschew | avoid; shun |
| esoteric | known only by a few people |
| ethereal | not of the material world |
| eulogy | praiseful speech at a funeral |
| euphemism | nice way of saying something unpleasant |
| exact | to demand |
| exhume | to remove from a grave; disinter |
| exigent | urgent; requiring immediate attention |
| abase | lower; humiliate |
| abash | to embarrass |
| abate | to lessen |
| abominate | to loathe; hate |
| abstruse | profound; difficult to understand |
| accentuate | to stress; emphasize |
| acclivity | sharp incline of a hill |
| accolade | award; honor |
| accost | to approach and speak to |
| acne | zits |
| adroit | skillful |
| adulate | to flatter and praise so much it's sickening |
| adulterate | to make impure |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow by disclosing only partially |
| adverse | hostile; opposed; unfavorable |
| advocate | to urge; recommend |
| aesthetic | artistic; pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful |
| affected | fake |
| affinity | attraction |
| affluent | rich |
| affray | public brawl |
| agape | open-mouthed |
| aghast | horrified |
| agile | able to move in a quick and easy fashion |
| alacrity | cheerful promptness |
| alias | a false name |
| alimentary | supplying nourishment |
| allay | to soothe; to make more bearable |
| alleged | stated without proof |
| table | to remove from consideration; to put off |
| taciturn | untalkative; uncommunicative |
| tact | skill in dealing with people in difficult situations |
| tangible | existing materially; palpable; able to be touched |
| tedious | boring; tiresome; trivial |
| temerity | recklessness; wild crazieness; lack of regard for danger |
| temperance | the quality of being temperate |
| temperate | showing self-restraint by not doing things to excess; moderate |
| tempestuous | stormy; turbulent; like a tempest |
| tenacity | persistence; tending to hold on firmly |
| tenet | principle or doctrine |
| tepid | lukewarm; somewhat warm |
| tenacious | having tenacity |
| terrestrial | of the earth |
| terse | concise; free of superfluous words |
| thwart | to prevent from taking place; challenge |
| tirade | long and vehement speech |
| torrid | parched by the sun; hot; burning |
| treachery | betrayal of trust; traitorousness |
| trepidation | fear; state of anxiety or fear that makes you tremble |
| tribute | gift expressing gratitude or respect |
| triskaidekaphobia | fear of the number 13 |
| truncate | to shorten by chopping off the end |
| alleviate | to make more bearable |
| allude | to refer indirectly |
| allusion | a reference to something |
| altercation | a violent dispute |
| amass | to collect; to get a bunch of |
| ambulatory | able to walk |
| ameliorate | to improve a bad situation |
| amity | peaceful relations; friendship |
| amnesia | loss of memory |
| amok | freaked out and violently pissed off |
| amorphous | shapeless |
| anthropoid | humanlike |
| antipathy | hatred; aversion; dislike |
| apathetic | indifferent; showing lack of interest |
| apathy | indifference; lack of interest |
| apex | tip; peak; summit; way up there |
| appease | to soothe; placate |
| arbitrary | chosen at random or without apparent reason |
| ardor | heat; passion; zeal |
| askew | crooked; off to one side |
| assuage | to ease; pacify |
| astute | shrewd; wise; observing |
| attribute (n.) | a characteristic, usually a good one |
| attribute (v.) | to explain by indicating a cause |
| atypical | not typical |
| audacity | boldness |
| august | majestic; awe-inspiring |
| austerity | severity; strictness |
| averse | opposed; unwilling |
| avuncular | like an uncle |
| awry | twisted; crooked; out of whack; askew; wrong |
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