Shelnut Vocab #5
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- Corpulent
- adj. Excessively overweight
- Spinster
- n. A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying.
- Taunting
- adj. Reproaching in a mocking, insulting, or contemptuous manner
- Craven
- adj. Characterized by abject fear; cowardly
- Connoisseur
- n. A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine or culinary arts.
- Admonitory
- expressing cautionary advice or warning
- Baffled
- adj. frustrated or checked, confused or perplexed; stymied
- Somber
- adj. Dark; gloomy. Dull or dark in color.
- Benevolent
- adj. Characterized by or suggestive of doing good; kind and generous
- Diffident
- adj. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
- Taciturn
- adj. Habitually untalkative
- Frugal
- adj. thrifty, not spending money unwisely; using caution with finances
- Vernacular
- n. The standard native language of a country or locality
- Charlatan
- n. A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a fraud
- Purloin
- v. To steal, often in a violation of trust
- Domicile
- n. 1. A residence; a home. 2. One's legal residence.
- Jovial
- adj. Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer
- Affable
- Friendly, easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable
- Effusive
- adj. Showing unrestrained or excessive emotional expression; gushy
- Poignant
- adj. Piercingly painful, especially to the emotions
- Lugubrious
- adj. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
- Astute
- adj. Smart; having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with one's own concerns
- Ardor
- Fiery intensity of feeling; passion or zeal
- Patronizing
- adj. Acting as a patron to; supporting or sponsoring. 2. Using, as a customer, especially on a regular basis. 3. Treating in a condescending manner.
- Deplore
- v. To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn
- Sardonic
- adj. Scornfully or cynically mocking
- S******
- n. A snicker
- Exuberant
- adj. Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy
- Cynical
- adj. Scornful of the motives, virtue, or integrity of others
- Circumspect
- adj. Heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent and careful about reputation
- Ceremonial
- adj. Of, appropriate to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; pertaining to a ritual.
- Adamant
- Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding
- Aspire
- v. To have a great ambition or ultimate goal
- Colloquial
- n. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal in tone; unique to particular areas.
- Prudent
- adj. Wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense
- Incredulous
- adj. Skeptical; disbelieving
- Elated
- adj. Exultantly proud and joyful.
- Burly
- - Heavy, strong, and muscular; husky
- Egotistical
- adj. Conceited, characterizing a boastful person; selfish, self-centered
- Dogged
- adj. Stubbornly persevering; tenacious.
- Penurious
- adj. Ungenerously or pettily unwilling to spend money
- Obstinate
- adj. Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, an opinion, or a course of action; obdurate.
- Ingratiating
- adj. Overly pleasing; agreeable
- Melancholic
- adj. Affected with or subject to melancholy
- Urbane
- adj. Polite, refined, and often elegant in manner; showing sophistication, perhaps of the city; cosmopolitan
- Noteworthy
- adj. Having significance, value, or consequence; important
- Pompous
- adj. Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity; pretentious
- Laconic
- adj. Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise
- Lament
- v. To express grief for or about; mourn
- Staid
- adj. Characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; sober
- Embezzle
- v. To take (money, for example) for one's own use, in violation of a trust.
- Turgid
- adj. Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent
- Satiric
- adj. Pertaining to a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit; descriptive of satire, poking fun at something to produce social change
- Yearn
- v. To have a strong, often melancholy, desire; to pine or desire something strongly
- Obdurate
- adj. Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent
- Elegiac
- adj. Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning; expressing sorrow for the lost past
- Nostalgic
- adj. having a bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past
- Concede
- v. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit ; to yield in opinion
- Supercilious
- adj. Feeling or showing haughty disdain
- Redolent
- adj. Having or emitting fragrance; aromatic, often producing memories of the past; evocative
- Clinical
- adj. Detached and objective in tone; instructive, like an encyclopedia
- Contentious
- adj. Given to contention; quarrelsome
- Sullen
- adj. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky
- Flippant
- adj. Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert
- Inflammatory
- adj. Arousing passion or strong emotion, especially anger, belligerence, or desire
- Reticent
- adj. Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself; quiet and shy
- Moralistic
- adj. Characterized by or displaying a concern with morality; didactic, overly instructive
- Provident
- adj. Providing for future needs or events, as if coming from a higher source
- Pithy
- adj. Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief
- Reminiscent
- adj. Having the quality of or containing reminiscence, ruminating upon the past
- Didactic
- adj. 1. Intended to instruct. 2. Morally instructive. 3. Inclined to teach or moralize excessively.
- Adroit
- Dexterous; deft. skillful and adept under pressing conditions
- Indignant
- adj. characterized by anger aroused by something unjust, mean, or unworthy
- Facetious
- adj. Playfully jocular; teasing, not meant seriously
- Insipid
- adj. Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty
- Guffaw
- n. A hearty, boisterous burst of laughter.
- Ecstatic
- adj. Being in a state of ecstasy; enraptured, enthusiastically happy.
- Incisive
- adj. Penetrating; clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
- Insolent
- adj. Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant
- Objective
- adj. Keeping an open mind, using facts only instead of personal opinion
- Terse
- adj. Brief and to the point; effectively concise
- Pilfer
- v. To steal (a small amount or item).
- Singular
- adj. 1. Being only one; individual. 2. Being the only one of a kind; unique