Set: 2nd Semester Vocab

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Term Definition
abhor to hate intensely
diffident lacking confidence; quiet and shy
ebullience intense and joyful enthusiasm
effusive gushy; highly emotional, especially in expressing graditude or praise
enervate to weaken the strenth or health of
frenetic wildly excited or active
impetuous characterized by sudden energy and emotion; impulsive and passionate
implacable impossible to apease or satisfy
listless indifferent; unwilling to act or even move; lazy
mercurial subject to rapid and extreme changes in mood; volatile
rancorous hateful; marked by deep seated ill will
reticent reluctant to speak
swagger to boast; to strut or otherwise demonstrate excessive pride
tepid lukewarm; lacking emotion
torpor laziness; inactivity; dullness
trepidation uncertainty; fear
wary on gaurd;watchfull
adage a wise old saying
adamant extremely stubborn
brusque describing a rude, abrupt manner
candor sincerity; oppenness
cavil to raise trivial objections; to nitpick
compelling forceful and convincing
didactic intended to instruct
disparage to speak of in a negative way; to belittle
emphatic expressed with forceful speech
facetious playfully humorous
frank open and sincere in expression; straightfoward
fulminate to denounce loudly and forcefully; to explode
garrulous excessively, tiresomely talkative
laconic using few words; not talkative
lament to express grief; to mourn; to regret
pejorative describing words and phrases intended to belittle others
rapport a relationship of mutual trust and affinity
repartee a swift and witty reply; a conversation characterized by swift and witty replies
tacit implied but not expressed; unspoken
trite unoriginal; overused; stale
wry dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony
biased prejudiced
cantankerous grumpy; disagreeable
caustic biting and sarcastic
contumacious disobedient, rebelious
dilatory frequently late
disdain contempt; disrespect
duplicitous habitually deceptive; lying
fastidious possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
factious quarrelsome; unruly; like to cause trouble
glower to look or star angrily or sullenly
haughty scornful and condescendinly proud
imperious arrogantly domineering; overbearing
indolent habitually lazy or inactive
ingrate ungrateful person
insipid uninteresting; unchallenging; dull and tastless
insolent insulting in manner or speech
irascible easily angered
malevolent having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious
malice extreme ill will or spite
obdurate stubborn
obstinate stubborn, especially in holding an attitude, opinion, or cource of action
parsimonious excessively cheap
repugnant causing disgust or hatred; repulsive
unpalatable not pleasant; unpleasing
arbiter a person who decides disputed issues
disingenuous not straightfoward; lacking in sincerity; pretending to know less than one actually does
eregious outrageously bad; clearly wrong or illegal
exculpate to free from guilt or blame
fabricate concoct in order to decieve; to create or build
heinous hatefully evil
incorrigible unable to be reformed; difficult to control
jurrisprudence the philosophy or science of law; a system of laws
libel a written or published falsehood injuring the reputaion of the written piece's subject; to lie maliciously in print about someone
litigious prone to filing lawsuits
notorious widlely and unfavorably known; infamous
plausible credible; appearing to be true
slander false charges and malicious statement about some one; to make false charges against someone
unfetter set free or restrictions or bonds
vindicate free from blame
ad lib to improvise or deliver spontaneously
bombast pompous, wordy speech or writing
embellish to make beautiful by ornamenting; to add details, some fictitous to a story
farce an absurdly ridiculous situation
florid describing flower or over-embellished speech
hackneyed overused and overly familiar; trivial
impromtu spur of the moment; unplanned
lampoon a broad piece of satire, usually ridiculing a person, group, or institution
medley an assortment or mixture, especially or songs or melodies
mural a large painting applied dirtectly to a wall or ceiling
parody an artistic work that imitates the style of another, usually with comic content
plagiarism to pass of another's ideas or writing as one's own
poignant emotionally moving; touching
prosaic unimaginative; dull
sonorous having or producing sound
terse brief and to the point; concise
austere somber; stern and severe
beatific revealing profound joy and inner peace; angelic
cloister to seclude; a secluded peaceful place
emulate to try to equal or excel, especially through imitaion
epiphany a sudden burst of understanding or discovery; a revelation
harbinger one that foreshadows or announces the arrival of an even or individual
heresay an opinion that differs fro the established, dearly held beliefs, often a religious nature
omnipotent possessing unlimited power
penitent expressing remorse or regret from one's misdeeds
pious devout; moral
portend to serve as an omen or warning of
precept a principle establishing proper behavior
prophetic fortelling or predciting future events
purist one who is particularly concerned with maintaining traditional practices
reclamation a restoration to productivity or usefullness
revere to greatly respect and honor
zealous passionate; extremely interesting in pursuing something
ample describing a large amount of something
archaic old-fashioned; outdated
behemoth something that is large, very powerful, or both
burgeon expand or grow rapidly
capacious roomy, spacious
copious plentiful; large in quantity
curtail to cut short; abbreviate
inveterate deep-rooted; set in one's ways
nocturnal active at night; occuring at night
novel strikingly new, unusual, or different
permeate to spread throughout; to get into everything
pervasive having the quality to be everywhere at the same time
ponderous unwiedly from weight or bulk; boring
remote slight; located far away
replete full; abundantly supplied
sedentary settled; tending toward inaction
transitory short-lived or temorary
truncated shortened or cutt of
ambigous unclear; open to more than one interpretation
clarity clearness, either in appearence or in thought and expression
incisive cutting; clear, sharp, and penetrating, as a comment or obserbation
intuitive knowing ore perceiving quickly and redily by intuition
naive laking sophistication; innocent, like a child
novice begginer
obscure dark; not clear or easily understood
quandry a state of uncertainty or perplexity
specious appering to be true, but actually false
spurious not genuine; fake
stupor a state of reduce or spended ability
stymie stump; thwart; block
vacous empty; stupid

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Creator airforcechic8679
Created May 24, 2007
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airforcechic8679 : Changed haught → scornful and condescendinly proud to haughty → scornful and condescendinly proud
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Most Missed Words

  1. litigious → prone to filing lawsuits - 3 misses
  2. laconic → using few words; not talkative - 2 misses
  3. incorrigible → unable to be reformed; difficult to control - 2 misses
  4. medley → an assortment or mixture, especially or songs or melodies - 2 misses
  5. plagiarism → to pass of another's ideas or writing as one's own - 2 misses
  6. impetuous → characterized by sudden energy and emotion; impulsive and passionate - 1 miss
  7. listless → indifferent; unwilling to act or even move; lazy - 1 miss