PDS English Vocab 201-250
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- Ungainly
- Adj. - Lacking grace or ease of movement or form, clumsy.
- Unseemly
- Adj. - Not in accord with accepted standards of good taste, grossly improper.
- Vanguard
- N. - The foremost position in an army or fleet advancing into battle or the foremost or leading position in a trend or movement.
- Vegetate
- V. - To engage in relaxing or passive activities, such as watching television.
- Venerable
- Adj. - Commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position.
- Veracious
- Adj. - Honest, truthful.
- Virulent
- Adj. - Intensely irritating, obnoxious, or harsh.
- Vulnerable
- Adj. - Susceptible to physical or emotional injury.
- Winsome
- Adj. - Harming, often in a childlike or naive way.
- Wrest
- V. - To obtain by or as if by pulling with violent twisting movements.
- Abut
- V. - To touch or end at one end or side.
- Advent
- N. - The coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important.
- Affable
- Adj. - Easy and pleasant to speak to, approachable.
- Amazon
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N. - Tall, aggressive, strong-willed woman.
Root: Greek Mythology
- A race of women - tall - skilled with bow and arrow and known to cut off their left breast to shoot better. - Ambivalence
- N. - The uncertainty or indecisiveness.
- Anneal
- V. - To strengthen or harden for objects or ideas.
- Apocalyptic
- Adj. - Relating to an extremly destructive force of ultimate doom.
- Atavism
- N. - The reappearance of a characteristic of previous behavior after a period of absence.
- Avocation
- N. - A hobby.
- Beholden
- Adj. - To beheld by an obligation, such as gratitude.
- Bereavement
- N. - State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one.
- Blanch
- V. - To take the color from or bleach or to draw back in fear.
- Brindled
- Adj. - Grayish with streaks or spots of a darker color.
- Caste
- N. - A social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank, profession, or wealth and of traditional Hindu society.
- Casuistry
- N. - Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead.
- Conduit
- N. - A pipe or channel for conveying fluids, such as water or a means by which something is transmitted.
- Credo
- N. - Any system of principles or belifs.
- Crepuscular
- Adj. - Of or like twilight.
- Crypt
- N. - An underground vault or chamber, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
- Cul-de-sac
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N. - A dead-end street that curves around with only one outlet.
Root: French - Bottom of bag. - Curmudgeon
- N. - An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions.
- Cynosure
- N. - A center of attention or a guide.
- Denigrate
- V. - To attack the character or reputation of, speak ill of, defame.
- Denouement
- N. - The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.
- Disabuse
- V. - To free from a falsehood or misconception.
- Dispassionate
- Adj. - Devoid of or unaffected by passion, emotion, or bias.
- Eclat
- N. - Great brilliance, as of performance or achievement.
- Excoriate
- V. - To tear or wear off the skin or to express strong disapproval or harsh criticism.
- Fanfare
- N. - A loud flourish of brass instruments, especially trumpets or a spectacular public display.
- Fluted
- Adj. - Having or marked by grooves.
- Fracas
- N. - A noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel, a brawl.
- Gargoyle
- N. - A roof spout in the form of a grotesque or fantastic creature projecting from a gutter to carry rainwater clear of the wall.
- Gastronomy
- N. - The art or science of good eating.
- Genealogy
- N. - A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors, a family tree.
- Hermetically
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Adj. - Completely sealed, especially airtight.
Root: Hermes: Greek god that had a sealed box. - Idiosyncratic
- N. - A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
- Incarnation
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N. - Something that becomes flesh.
Root: Carn means flesh. - Incontinent
- Adj. - Lacking normal voluntary control of excretory functions or lacking sexual restraint.
- Interdict
- V. - To destroy, damage, or cut off (as an enemy line of supply) by firepower to stop or hamper an enemy.
- Irksome
- Adj. - Causing annoyance or weariness.