English Vocab 2006

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imperceptible: exhibiting keen awareness of one's environment through physical sensation; very slight, subtle, not perceived
dragooning: vb. forcing or attempting to force into submission; compelling or coercing
truculent: adj. feeling or showing ferocity; aggressively self-assertive
shiftless: adj. lazy, inefficient, lacking in resourcefulness
mordant: adj. caustic, acerbic, scathing, penetrating, biting
dissolution: n. closure, disbanding, termination, suspernsion, conclusion
emanating: adj. originating, starting, coming, beginning, stemming, springing, deriving
diffidently: adv. shyly, self-effacingly, timidly, hesitantly
illusory: adj. deceptive, unreal, illusive; producing, based on, or having the nature of delusion
petulant: adj. impatient or irratible; peevish
fatious: adj. complacently stupid or inane; silly, foolish
sublime: adj, n, v. elevated or lofty in thoughts, language, etc.
impervious: adj. incapable of being penetrated
pedagogy: n. the function or work of a teacher
atoll: n. a ring shaped coral reef of a string of closely spaced small coral islands
pariah: n. somebody dispised and avoided by other people
rend: v. to tear at something violently out of anguish or rage; to distress somebody
pusillanimous: adj. cowardly
demur: v. to object
condole: v. to express sympathy
noisome: adj. harmful or offensive esp. to the sense of smell
ken/ kenning: n. range of sight or understanding
wanton: adj. done maliciously or unjustifiable; extravagant or excessive; lascivious, lewd
consternation: n. a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion
apathy: n. abscence or supression of passion, emotion, or excitement
empathy: n. the identification of feelings or thoughts of another
conjecture: n. the formation or expression of an opinion or theory wihtout sufficient evidence or proff
obsequiously: adv. in a complying or fawning manner
ensconded: v. to be settled or established
tractable: adj. capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled; docile, easily handled, managed, or wrought; malleable
taciturn: adj. temperamentally disinclined to talk
intimated: past tense v. communicated delicately and indirectly, hinted
whelp: v. to give birth to; to bring forth
retinue: n. a group of retainers or attendants
incumbent: ajd. required; obligatory; holding a specified office, lying, resting or pressing with its weight on something else
intermet: n. the act or ritual of interring
pervade: v. to spred throughout; permeate
salient: adj. projecting or jutting beyond a line; stiking, conspicuous, prominent, noticeable
inveigle: v. to lead astry or win over by deceitful flattery; to obtain by cajolery
contentious: adj. always ready to argue; quarrelsome
convalescence: n. gradual recover after illness; the perious of such recovery
droll: adj. amusingly odd, whimsically comical
irate: adj. arising from anger
mire: n. heavy and often deep mud or slush

v. to stick or sing in or as if in mud
castrate: v. to deprive of sex glands
disparage: v. to lower in rank or reputation, degrade; belittle
staunch: adj. firm, strong, steadfast, loyal, resolute

v. to stop a liquid from flowing; to stop a wound from bleeding
alacrity: n. cheerful readiness
din: n. a lound confused mixture of noises
pernicious: adj. destructive, very harmful
topid: adj. lethargic, sluggish
lurid: adj. vivid, glaring, shocking, sensational
auspicious: adj. showing promise, favorable
impassively: adj. in a manner not susceptible to pain or suffering; apathetically, in an unmoved manner
deference: adj. submission or sourteous yielding to the opinion, wished, or judement of another; courteous respect
dirge: n. a slow, mournful musical composition; a funeral hymn or lament; a mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work
transgress: v. to go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); to act in violation of
untrammeled: adj. not limited or restricted, unrestrained
entrails: n. internal parts, organs
welter: n. a confused mass, a jumble
v. to wallow, roll, or toss about, as in mus or high seas
knave: n. an unprincipled, crafy fellow; a male servant
countenance: n. appearance, especially of the face; face or facial feature; support or approval
cogitation: n. thoughtful consideration, meditation, a serious thought
construe: v. interpret, to make sense of, analyze the structure or; translate
dank: adj. aisagreeably dark or humid
render: v. to submit or present; to make available or provide; to give what is due or awed, to return, to surrender
augur: v. to predict or fortell from omens

n. a seer or prophet
unassailiable: adj. impossible to dispute or to disapprove; undeniable
(at) bay: n. a position of no escape
proscription: n. the act of condemning or forbidding something, the condition of having been denounced or exiled
garrulous: adj. excessively talkative
penchant: n. inclination, strong liking
refractory: adj. obstinate; resistant to treatment
abscond: v. to hide, run away, esp to avoid punishment for a wrongdoing
cache: n. a secret hiding place; a store of weapons or treasures, a store of food left for use by travelers to place in a chachet
canard: n. false, deliberately made up word or story
collusion: n. secret agreement for a decietful peace, conspiracy
connive: v. to cooperate secretly with someone for a deceitful purpose; conspire
duplicity: n. double-dealing; hypocritical deception
subterfuge: n. trick or plan to conceal one's true objective; strategem, deception
inchoate: adj. just begun, only party in existence, incomplete
tyro: n. beginner in learning something, novice; neophyte
tome: n. one volume, or "cut", of a work of two or more volumes; any heavy, large, or scholarly book
postprandial: adj. occurring after a meal, after dinner
prescient: adj. seeming to have knowledge of events before they occur; gifted with foresight
decry: v. to depreciate officially or publicly; to express strong disapproval of; disparage
perturbed: v/ adj. distrubed greatly in mind; disquiet; thrown into confusion; disorder, discomposed
tenor: n. a drift of something spoken or written; an exact copy of a writing
abject: adj. cast down in spirit; showing utter hopelessness or resignation
prate: v. to talk longly and idly
raucous: adj. disagreeable harsh or strident; hoarse; boisterously disorderly
licentious: adj. lacking legal or moral restraints; marked by disregard for strict rules of correctless
abeyance: n. a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested; temporary inactivity; suspension
lugubriously: adv. mournfully (esp. exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful, dismally)
truncated: adj. cut short; lacking an expected or normal element at the beginning or end
extricated: v. to distinguish from a related thing; to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty; to free or umbind from what hold back-- implies care or ingenuity
mendacious: adj. given to or characterized by decption or fasehood which often is not intended to genuinely mislead or delude
temerity: n. unreasonable or foolheardy contempt of danger or opposition; an act or instance of temerity
portent: n. somthing that foreshadows a coming event
succinct: adj. marked by compace precise expression without wasted words
rancor: n. bitter, deep-seeded ill will
forbearance: n. a refraining from the enforcement of something that is due
credulity: n. inclination toward belief on slight evidence
prosaic: adj. laking imagination or excitement; factual, dull

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