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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Acquiesce | to consent to or give in to something silently or without pretest |
| Aesthetic | beautiful in terms of art |
| Ambiguous | unclear; can be interpreted in more than one way |
| Ameliorate | to make (a situation) better |
| Ambivalence | conflicting emotions |
| Analogous | comparable; similar in some way that a comparison can be made |
| Antithesis | the direct opposite of |
| Appease | to pacify; to bring to state of calm |
| Apprehension | nervousness; fear of future trouble |
| Arbitrary | random |
| Articulate | well-spoken |
| Astute | shrewd; practical, extremely aware, and intelligent |
| Augment | enhanced or improved |
| Austerity | self-denial (to sacrifice one's own desires and interests) |
| Belligerent | aggresive; eager to fight |
| Benevolent | kind |
| Benign | harmless; kind |
| Blasphemous | disrespectful in a religious way |
| Bolster | to support; to raise one's spirits |
| Brevity | brief in duration |
| Coerce | to force to act or think in a certain way |
| Complacent | self-satisfied; unconcerned with success |
| Concur | to agree |
| Contrite | feeling regret or sorrow |
| Conviction | strong belief |
| Crass | crude, unrefined behavior |
| Cynical | distrustful; skeptical to others' motives |
| Deference | courteous respect |
| Denounce | openly accuse |
| Despondent | depressed |
| Destitute | lacking something that is needed |
| Detrimental | causing damage or harm |
| Deviate | to stray from the normal path or way of doing things |
| Discerning | perceptive; showing great understanding |
| Discretion | good judgement; caution |
| Disheveled | untidy, disorderly |
| Disparaging | critical; belittling |
| Diverse | different, various |
| Dubious | doubtful |
| Erroneous | containing error; straying from what is right or proper |
| Expedite | to speed up the progress of |
| Extricate | to free or release from entanglement |
| Facilitate | to make easier; to assist the progress of a person |
| Flagrant | shockingly noticeable or evident; notorious, scandalous |
| Gravity | serious or critical in nature |
| Grudging | reluctant; unwilling |
| Gullible | easily decieved or cheated |
| Haphazard | characterized by no order or planning; mere chance |
| Hinder | to interfere with the progress of; to keep back or behind |
| Hypocritical | professing or pretending to have feelings, morals, or beliefs one does not have |
| Hypothetical | existing only in concept and not in reality |
| Immutable | unchangeable |
| Inadvertently | unintentionally, accidentally, often with no one accepting the blame |
| Inane | one that lacks sense, ideas, or significance |
| Incite | to provoke and urge on; to stir to action or feeling |
| Inconsequential | not of great importance |
| Incorrigible | difficult or impossible to control or manage; incapable of being corrected or reformed; firmly rooted |
| Indolent | habitually lazy; slow to heal, grow or develop; causing little or no pain |
| Infamous | having an exeedingly bad reputation; shameful |
| Infer | to conclude from evidence |
| Innocuous | not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; harmless |
| Languish | to exist in miserable conditions; to waste away from longing or grief; to lose strength or power; to remain unattended or neglected |
| Lethargic | lacking mental or physical alertness and activity |
| Levity | silliness, lack of seriousness |
| Mediocre | barely adequate; average to below average in quality |
| Modicum | small or moderate amount |
| Misconstrue | to misinterpret; to mistake the meaning of |
| Methodical | systematic habits or behavior; orderly; painstakingly slow and careful |
| Mitigate | to moderate; to make less severe or more bearable |
| Meticulous | extremely concerned with details; extremely careful and precise |
| Mesmerize | to captivate, fascinate; to compel one's attention, interest or imagination |
| Nebulous | containing more than one interpretation; vague |
| Nonchalant | the trait of seeming calm and seeming not to care |
| Novelty | newness |
| Opulence | a great abundance; wealth, luxuriousness |
| Opportunist | one who take advantage of an opportunity to acheive an end, often unethically |
| Obstinate | stubbornly sticking to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; difficult to cure, manage, or control |
| Optimist | a person with a positive outlook on life |
| Predecessor | a person who precedes another in an office, position, etc. |
| Placate | to appease, sooth, pacify; to ease the anger or agitation of |
| Pessimism | the tendency to see only what is gloomy or to anticipate the worst outcome |
| Prolific | highly productive; producing offspring, young, fruit, etc. in abundance |
| Preclude | to make impossible; to prevent the presence or occurence of |
| Plausible | believable; having an appearance of truth |
| Redundant | unnecessary repititionin expressing ideas; exceeding what is necessary or natural |
| Rescind | to revoke, cancel; to take back or remove |
| Relegate | to assign; to send to an inferior position |
| Repudiate | to divorce or formally seperate from; to refuse to accept, acknowledge or recognize |
| Refute | to prove to be false or erroneous |
| Reprehensible | deserving blame or punishment |
| Ramification | consequences or developements growing out of a problem or plan |
| Sequester | to remove or set apart; to isolate, segreate |
| Stigma | mark of disgrace or shame |
| Stringent | severe; imposing rigorous standards |
| Scrupulous | having moral integrity; extremely careful; conscienctious and exact |
| Superfluous | more than what is needed; unecessary |
| Succumb | to give up or give in; to submit to an overpowering force or desire |
| Stoic | one who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected joy, grief, pleasure, or pain. |
| Sporadic | irregular; no set pattern |
| Supercilious | showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority |
| Tacit | an unspoken or silent agreement |
| Temerity | boldness, nerve, audacity |
| Tentative | not fully worked out or agreed on; uncertain; experimental |
| Trepidation | apprehension; a state of alarm or dread; anxiety, worry |
| Uncanny | strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation |
| Unfeigned | sincere, real, without pretense |
| Unobtrusive | keeping a low profile; not showy;not readily noticed or seen |
| Vestige | a visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that is now absent, lost or vanished |
| Vivacious | full of animation and spirit, lively |
| Volition | a conscious choice or decision |
| Vicarious | felt as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another |
| Verbatim | word for word; exactly in the same words |
| Verbose | containing more words than necessary; wordy |
| Vehement | forceully expressing something; intensely emotional |
| Vacillate | to waver in one's opinions; to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another |
| Virulent | hateful, hostile, harsh; extremely infectious, malignant or poisonous |
| Xenophobia | an intense dislike and/or unreasonable fear of strangers |
| Zealous | enthusiastically devoted to a cause, ideal or goal |
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