Up Your Score Vocab - Fall
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erinbleiweiss on December 13, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | hared; 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 (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 |
| bacchanalian | orgiastic; like wild drunken revelry |
| baleful | something that exerts an evil influence or foreshadows evil |
| baneful | poisonous or deadly |
| 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 severely |
| 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 (wordy, pompous) 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 |
| ebullient | bubbly; overflowing with excitement |
| edify | to enlighten; educate |
| educe | to elicit |
| efface | to erase; rub out |
| effete | tired; barren; decadent |
| effigy | dummy (mannequin), 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 |
| 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 | praise/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 |
| nadir | absolute 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 expression |
| 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; different |
| novice | beginner; person new to something |
| noxious | harmful to health or morals |
| nuance | subtle variation in color, meaning, or some other quality |
| obdurate | hardened against good influence |
| oblivion | state of being totally forgiven |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| sparse | thinly spread or distributed; not crowded |
| stagnant | not moving or flowing; motionless, stationary |
| static | having no motion; at rest; stationary |
| steadfast | faithful |
| 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 |
| sweat gland | small secretory gland in the skin that excretes water and body salts |
| swindle | to cheat or defend |
| sycophant | servile person who follows and flatters another person in the hope of winning favor |
| synthetic | not real; man-made; fabricated |
| table | to remove from consideration |
| 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 craziness; lack of regard for danger |
| temperate | showing self-restraint by not doing things to excess; moderate |
| tempestuous | stormy; turbulent; like a tempest (violent windstorm) |
| tenacity | persistence; tending to hold on firmly |
| tenet | principle or doctrine |
| tepid | lukewarm; somewhat warm; |
| terrestrial | of the earth |
| terse | concise; free of superfluous words |
| thwart | to prevent from taking place; challenge |
| tirade | long a 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 |
| wanton | immoral; unchaste; cruel |
| whim | capricious, freakish idea |
| wily | crafty |
| wistful | yearning; wishful with a hint of sadness |
| wow | of or pertaining to golly-gee-whillikers |
| wrath | anger; rage |
| zany | crazy; insane |
| zeal | enthusiasm |
| zealous | full of zeal |
| zenith | peak; summit; acme |
| zest | gusto; happy and vivacious enjoyment |
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