Vocabulary #5

allude: Suggest or call attention to indirectly.
clairvoyant: A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.
conclusive: Serving to prove a case.
disreputable: Not considered to be respectable in character or appearance.
endemic: Regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
exemplary: Serving as a desirable model.
fathom: Understand.
guile: Sly or cunning intelligence.
integrity: The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
itinerary: A planned route or journey.
misconstrue: Interpret
obnoxious: Extremely unpleasant.
placate: Make someone less angry or hostile.
placid: Not easily upset or excited
plagiarism: The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
potent: Having great power, influence, or effect.
pretext: A reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.
protrude: stick out
stark: stiff
superficial: to think highly.

Vocabulary #4

melancholy: A deep, pensive, and long-lasting sadness.
exemplary: Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind
peculiar: Strange or odd.
dread: Anticipate with great apprehension or fear
bough: A main branch of a tree.
pious: Devoutly religious
communion: The sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings.
auditor: A person who conducts an audit
multitude: A large number
eloquence: Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.
despair : the complete loss or absence of hope.

 

Vocabulary #3

encomium: A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.
coherent: Logical and consistent.
belabor: Argue or elaborate.
eschew: Deliberately avoid using.
acquisitive: Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.
emulate: Match or surpass.
arrogate: Take or claim.
banal: So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
excoriation: an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.congeal: Solidify or coagulate.
carping: Difficult to please.
substantiate: Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.
temporize: Avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time.
largesse: Generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others.
tenable: Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.
insatiable: Impossible to satisfy .
reconnaissance: Military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features.
germane: Relevant to a subject under consideration.
ramify: Form branches or offshoots.
intransigent: Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.
taciturn: Reserved or uncommunicative in speech.
invidious: Likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others.

Vocabulary #2

1) Intercede: Intervene on behalf of another.

2) Hackneyed: Lacking significance through having been overused.

3) Approbation: The action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.
4) Innuendo: An allusive or oblique remark or hint
5)Coalition: An Allience for combined action.
6) Elicit : Evoke or draw out.
7) Hiatus: A pause or gap.
8) Assuage: Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense: "the letter assuaged the fears of most members".
9) Decadence: Moral or cultural decline, esp. after a peak of achievement.
10) Expostulate: Express strong disapproval or disagreement.
11) Simulate: Imitate the appearance or character of.
12) Jaded: Tired, bored,
13) Umbrage: Offense or annoyance
14) Prerogative: A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.
15) Lurid: Very vivid in color, esp. so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect
16) Transcend: Be or go beyond the range or limits of (something abstract, typically a conceptual field or division).
17) Provincial: Of or concerning a provinence of a country or empire.
18) Petulant: Childlishly sulky or bad- tempered.
19) Untuous: Excessively or ingratiatingly flattering

20) Meritorious: Deserving reward or praise.

Vocabulary Words #1

Adumbrate: to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.

Apotheosis: the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god

Ascetic: a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.

Bauble: a showy, usually cheap, ornament

Beguile: to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude

Burgeon: to grow or develop quickly; flourish: complement

Contumacious: stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.

Curmudgeon:  a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person

Didactic:  intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry. inclined to teach or lecture others too much

Disingenuous: lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere

Exculpate: to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.

Faux pas:  a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.

Fulminate:  to explode with a loud noise; detonate.

Fustian:  a stout fabric of cotton and flax.

Hauteur: haughty manner or spirit; arrogance.

Inhibit:  to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse,)

Jeremiad: a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint

Opportunist: a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles:

Unconscionable: not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.