Semester I English III Vocabulary
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- Transcend
- v. to surpass
- Diffuse
- adj. widely spread or scattered
- laconic
- adj. concise
- farce
- n. an exaggerated comic play
- definitive
- adj. complete
- empirical
- adj. relying on observation
- moribund
- adj. about to die
- lampoon
- n. a written piece that jokes or ridicules
- noxious
- adj. poisonus
- adjunct
- n. attached in a dependant position
- exalt
- v. to glorify or praise
- austere
- adj. severe or stern
- raillery
- n. good natured teasing
- salubrious
- adj. favorable to good health
- parody
- n. a mockery
- prostrate
- v.to reduce to extreme weakness
- regale
- v. to entertain
- tenuous
- adj. flimsy
- scourge
- n. a cause of great devastation
- unscathed
- adj. uninjured
- maudlin
- adj. overly sentimental
- irresolute
- adj. undecided
- dour
- adj. marked by harshness, sterness
- arcane
- adj. mysterious
- bowlderize
- v. to simplify a work
- contumacy
- n. a stubborn rebelliousness
- educe
- v. to draw out
- draconian
- adj. very severe
- eclat
- n. brilliant success
- fathom
- v. to comprehend
- adumbrate
- v. to describe vaguely
- bedlam
- n. noisy confusion
- audacious
- adj. fearless
- limpid
- adj. calm, tranquil
- obsequious
- adj. fawning
- impervious
- adj. incapable of being affected
- obdurate
- adj. hardhearted
- manifest
- v. to reveal
- stentorian
- adj. extremely loud
- pertinacity
- n. stubborness
- nebulous
- adj. cloudy, hazy
- stoic
- adj. unaffected by feelings
- levity
- n. a light and humorous manner
- pestilence
- n. a fatal or epidemic disease
- compatriot
- n. a colleague
- garrulous
- adj. wordy
- florid
- adj. flushed with rosy color
- amalgamate
- v. to unite
- exhort
- v. to appeal strongly
- avarice
- greed
- conclave
- n. a secret meeting
- gist
- n. the central idea
- insatiable
- adj. impossible to satisfy
- contiguous
- adj. adjacent
- histrionic
- adj. excessively dramatic
- inundate
- v. to flood with water
- buffoon
- n. a clown
- axiomatic
- adj. self-evident
- atrophy
- v. to wither away
- parity
- equality
- polemic
- n. a controversial argument
- prodigal
- lavish
- diverge
- v. to branch out
- peremptory
- adj. not allowing refusal
- parsimony
- n. extreme stinginess
- synergy
- n. the interaction of merged forces resulting in a greater effect
- vivacious
- adj. lively
- replete
- v. to replenish
- probity
- total integrity
- belie
- to misrepresent
- scruplulas
- conscientious
- forthright
- direct, honest
- dissemble
- to disguise behind a false appearance
- perfiduous
- trecherous
- nefarious
- wicked,infamous
- spurious
- not genuine
- cladestire
- done in secret
- disengenuous
- pretending to be unaware, playing dumb
- hiatus
- a gap, break
- transence
- an impermanence
- pristine
- unspoiled
- extant
- still in existence
- eon
- an infinitely long period of time
- perpetuity
- an eternity
- concomitant
- occuring at the same time
- irrevocable
- irreversable
- inure
- to accustom to something undesireable
- redress
- to right a wrong
- clemency
- mercy
- restitution
- compensation
- vindicate
- to clear of blame
- iniquity
- wickedness
- bilk
- to cheat someone out of money
- impute
- to attribute fault/ to blame
- abscond
- to leave quickly to avoid arrest
- reprehensible
- deserving of criticism
- contrite
- regretful
- paradox
- a difficult problem
- patent
- obvious, apparent
- adduce
- to cite as an example
- cryptic
- having a hidden meaning
- perspicacity
- a sharpness
- rudimentary
- elementary
- confound
- to make confused
- construe
- to interpret
- equivocate
- to use evasive language
- conondrum
- a dilemma
- outlandish
- strikingly bizzare
- unwonted
- unusual
- eccentricity
- the quality of being unconventional
- anomaly
- a departure from the norm
- paragon
- a model of excellence
- mundane
- a commonplace
- incongruous
- incompatible
- aberrant
- abnormal
- endemic
- common in a certain location
- ubiquituous
- seeming to be everywhere
- martinet
- a rigid military disciplinarian
- dialectic
- reaching the truth by opposing arguments
- cognate
- words from two diff languages that sound the same
- inflection
- a change in tone of voice
- orthography
- a spelling system
- paradigm
- a model
- philology
- the study of the history of language
- phonology
- the sound system of language
- rejoiner
- a witty answer
- clandestine
- done in secret
- perfidious
- treacherous