Academic English 10 Vocab
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- Rendezvous
- an appointment; a meeting place
- Posh
- elegant; fashionable
- Exodus
- a mass departure
- Promontory
- a high point of land or rock projecting into water
- Truncated
- cut off; shortened
- Replicate
- to duplicate; to repeat
- Fecund
- fruitful; productive
- Remorse
- regret for having done wrong
- Corona
- a halo of light around the sun or moon
- Dexterous
- skillful with the hands; mentally adroit
- Pariah
- an outcast
- Masticate
- to chew; to soften by crushing
- Appendage
- something attached to a larger item
- Dormant
- sleeping; inactive
- Satiated
- fully fed; fully satisfied
- Echelon
- one in a series of levels of command
- Bizarre
- out of the ordinary; eccentric; freakish
- Equilibrium
- a state of balance
- Nadir
- the lowest point
- Cuisine
- food, style of cooking
- Xenophobia
- fear or hatred of strangers
- Carcinogen
- a substance that causes cancer
- Polyglot
- using several languages
- Incarcerate
- to put in prison
- Carnivore
- a flesh-eating animal
- somnambulist
- sleepwalker
- Juxtapose
- to place side by side
- Progeny
- offsprings; descendents
- Luminary
- one who is notable in a particular field
- Monolith
- a single large stone, often in the form or a column or monument
- Apparition
- unused or unexpected sight
- Sediment
- matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid
- Amphibious
- able to function on land and in water
- Conflagration
- a large, destructive fire
- Pogrom
- an organized persecution or massacre
- Buttress
- to support or prop
- Salutary
- promoting health; benefitual
- Pulchritude
- physical beautiful
- Tantalize
- to tease by keeping something out of reach
- Bonafied
- made in good faith; genuine
- Nodule
- a small lump
- Contretemps
- an embarrassing incident
- Caucus
- a closed meeting of members of a political party of faction
- Plummet
- to fall or plunge straight downward
- Comatose
- unconscious; inactive
- Decanter
- a vessel used to receive liquid poured from another
- Bellicose
- warlike; quarrelsome
- Recalcitrant
- stubbornly resistant to authority or restraint
- Potable
- fit to drink
- Germinate
- to begin to grow; sprout
- Titanic
- huge; powerful
- Symposium
- a meeting to discuss a particular topic
- Conveyance
- a means of transporting; a vehicle
- Impropriety
- improper conduct; bad manners
- Prostrate
- lying flat; stretched out with face on the ground
- Expletive
- an exclamatory word or phrase, often obscene or profane
- Deciduous
- shedding at a certain stage
- Votary
- a person devoted to something
- Bombast
- pretentious
- Libation
- a beverage; archaic; the act of pouring out a liquid of a religious offering
- Parochial
- relating to a church parish; limited in scope
- Oscillate
- to swing back and forth
- Valor
- courage; bravery
- Flotilla
- a fleet of small ships
- Apex
- highest point; summit
- Ambulatory
- walking or moving; alterable
- Maelstrom
- a powerful whirlpool, turmoil
- Ravenous
- hungry; very eager
- Paraphernalia
- personal belongings; equipment
- Distaff
- pertaning to females; a stick that holds wool or flax for spinning
- Metamorphosis
- a transformation; a marked alteration
- Lineage
- descent in a direct line from an ancestor
- Satornine
- gloomy; surly
- Boudoir
- a women's dressing room, bedroom, or private sitting room
- Celestial
- heavenly
- Penurious
- stingy; extremely poor
- Billet-doux
- a love letter
- Holocaust
- widespread destruction, especially by fire
- Sinewy
- strong and firm; tough
- Irreparable
- cannot be repaired
- Gyrate
- to revolve around a point or axis
- Effervescent
- bubbly; lively
- Truculent
- savage; fierce
- Googol
- the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros, equal to 10 to the 100th power
- Archetype
- the original pattern or model
- Lugubrious
- exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
- Obdurate
- hard; unmoved by persuasion
- Nocturnal
- pertaining to the night; active at night
- Formidable
- frightening, dreadful; awe-inspiring
- Doggerel
- loose, irregular verse, inferior poetry