Engrish 10 Vocabulary
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- rancorous
- hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
- subdue
- to restrain; to hold back
- brittle
- easily broken when subjected to pressure
- realism
- artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
- heinous
- hatefully evil; abominable
- propriety
- appropriateness of behavior
- fractious
- quarrelsome; unruly
- insolent
- insulting in manner of speech
- condemn
- to express strong disapproval of; denounce
- perception
- awareness; insight
- brusque
- rudely abrupt
- caustic
- bitingly sarcastic or witty
- eclectic
- made up of a variety of sources or styles
- innate
- possessed at birth; inborn
- conception
- the ability to form or understand and idea
- genre
- describing a category of artistic endeavor
- staid
- unemotional; serious
- lament
- express grief for; mourn
- vitality
- energy; power to survive
- hackneyed
- worn-out through overuse; trite
- context
- circumstances of a situation; environment
- aesthetic
- having to do with the appreciation of beauty
- decorous
- proper; marked by good taste
- reprehensible
- worthy of blame
- proximity
- closeness
- deleterious
- having harmful effect; injurious
- dogged
- stubbornly persevering
- impression
- a feeling or understanding resulting from experience
- plagiarism
- the act of passing off ideas or writing of another as one's own
- conviction
- a fixed or strong belief
- excerpt
- a selected part of a passage or scene
- facetious
- playfully humorous
- diligent
- marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
- incorrigible
- unable to be reformed
- dilettant
- one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
- modest
- quiet or humble in manner or appearance
- inveterate
- long established; deep-rooted; habitual
- transitory
- short-lived or temporary
- assmilation
- to absorb; to make similar
- incumbent
- imposed as a duty; obligatory
- anthology
- a collection of literary pieces
- medieval
- referring to the Middle Ages, old-fashioned
- obsolete
- no longer in use; old-fashioned
- equanimity
- the quality of being calm and even tempered; composure
- camaraderie
- good will between friends
- malleable
- easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
- pugnacious
- combative; belligerent
- sanction
- an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
- profound
- having great depth or seriousness
- putrid
- rotten
- consensus
- general agreement
- compelling
- forceful; urgently demanding attention
- derived
- copied or adapted from a source
- mural
- a large painting applied directly to a wall or a ceiling surface
- narrative
- characterized by the telling of a story; a story
- perspective
- point of view
- discredit
- to cause to be doubted
- ingrate
- an ungrateful person
- contemporary
- current; modern; from the same time
- serene
- calm
- maverick
- one who is independent and resists adherence to a group
- notorious
- known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
- obstinate
- stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action
- cordial
- friendly; sincere
- enmity
- mutual hatred or ill-will
- transient
- passing away wit time; passing from one place to another
- enlightening
- informative; contributing to one's awareness
- proliferate
- to grow or increase rapidly
- disparage
- to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
- medley
- an assortment or a mixture; especially of musical pieces
- emigrate
- to leave one country or region and settle in another
- parody
- an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
- pejorative
- describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
- inevitable
- certain to happen; unavoidable
- tenacity
- persistence
- archaic
- characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
- malice
- extreme ill will or spite
- assidous
- hard-working
- melancholy
- sadness; depression
- acquired
- developed or learned; not naturally occurring
- amenable
- responsive; agreeable
- dogmatic
- stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
- intuition
- the power of knowing thing without thinking; sharp insight
- omnipotent
- all-powerful
- feral
- savage; untamed
- misconception
- an incorrect understanding or interpretation
- toxic
- poisonous
- prudent
- exercising good judgment or common sense
- elusive
- difficult to capture
- malfeasance
- misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official
- impinge
- hinder; interfere with
- stoic
- indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
- intrepid
- courageous; fearless
- obdurate
- stubborn; inflexible
- inherent
- inborn; built-in
- vitruoso
- a tremendously skilled artist
- vilify
- to make vicious statements about
- truncated
- shortened; cut off
- affable
- easy-going; friendly