Vocabulary: Quarter 2
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- Coalesce
- The rebels coalesced into one army to fight the invaders.
- Cognizance
- We will t ake cognizance of your objections at the proper time.
- Commodious
- After viewing his small living quarters the king demanded the area be made more commoidous.
- Compunction
- After realizing she was wrong for tricking her friend Mary couldn't hlep but feel compunction.
- Credulity
- She as so credulous, believing everything she heard.
- Dearth
- During the famine there was a dearth of food.
- Deft
- The deft fingers massaged her back.
- Delineate
- The tree was clearly delineated by the light.
- Diatribe
- After hearing of her betrayal I unleashed a diatribe on her.
- Dictum
- To prove her point she often cities the presidents dictum.
- Ebuillient
- Lauren Tehan is an extremly ebuillient person.
- Efficacy
- The organization was worried about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.
- Effrontery
- Who would have the effrontery to reate the chairman in this way?
- Emend
- The text was emended in the second edition.
- Emollient
- The lotion had an emollient effect on the skin.
- Endemic
- The disease was endemic to the tropics.
- Enmity
- I could no longer contain my enmity towards the stuck up girl.
- Ensconce
- She ensconced herself in an armchair.
- Facetious
- Mary was always very facetious; always speaking with a bantering tone.
- Fatuous
- She always wasted her money on fatuous little things.
- Fecundity
- The proffesor had great fecundity of mind.
- Foible
- Her attitude was the only foible part of her character.
- Fortuitous
- I was saved from walking home in the rain by the fortuitous arrival of my friends.
- Gait
- She walked with a clumbsy, hobbling gait.
- Garish
- The bright orange pin was gaudy and garish.
- Gratuitous
- Since I did nothing wrong her criticism was gratuitous.
- Guile
- She guiled me into thinking we were friends so she could use my car.
- Harbinger
- The dark clouds were harbingers of the storm to come.
- Hiatus
- Due to money shortages the operation was put on hiatus.
- Husbandry
- By raisiing livestock the farm was practicing husbandry.