Vocabulary: Unit 2
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- To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming.
- AMELLORATE
- Poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity.
- APLOMB
- Pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas.
- BOMBASTIC
- Without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers
- CALLOW
- (n.) Saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; (v.) to let saliva flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly
- DRIVEL
- A summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality
- EPITOME
- To urge strongly, advise earnestly
- EXHORT
- By virtue of holding a certain office.
- EX OFFICIO
- To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds.
- INFRINGE
- To make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical or derogatory sense)
- INGRATIATE
- One who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder.
- INTERLOPER
- Belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part.
- INTRINSIC
- To make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval.
- INVEIGH
- Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy.
- LASSITUDE
- A period of one thousand years; a period of great joy.
- MILLENIUM
- (adj.) Mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; (v.) to hide, conceal; eclipse; (n.) matters involving the supernatural.
- OCCULT
- To spread through, penetrate, soak through.
- PERMEATE
- (v.) To fall as moisture; to cause or bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to; (adj.) characterized by excessive haste; (n.) moisture; the product of an action or process.
- PRECIPITATE
- Strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste.
- STRINGENT
- (v.) To think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess; (n.) likely idea that lacks definite proof.
- SURMISE