Vocabulary Unit#6 and Vocabulary Unit#7
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- ambiguous(adj.)
- unclear in meaning
- obscure
- deliberaterly ambiguous or misleading
- equivocal
- deliberately ambiguous or misleading
- convoluted
- intricate and hard to follow
- cryptic
- enigmatic; mysterious
- unfathomable
- impossible to comprehend
- nebulous
- vague; indefinite
- enigma
- a mystery or riddle
- esoteric
- difficult to understand
- ramble
- to wander aimlessly, either verbally, either verbally or physically
- desultory
- aimless; prone to ramdom digressions
- digress
- to go off topic
- profound
- deep; insightful
- candor
- honesty; straightforwardness
- affect
- to put on airs; to behave unnaturally
- veracity
- truthfulness
- debunk
- to expose something as faudulent
- apocryphal
- of doubtful authenticity
- forthright
- honest; straightforward
- disingenuous
- insincere; crafty
- candid
- straightforward; honest
- dubious
- doubtful
- prevaricate
- to lie
- verisimilitude
- the quality of appearing to be true
- outspoken
- candid and unsparing in speech
- fraudulent
- deceitful
- facade
- outward appearance; a false front
- mirth
- merriment; laughter
- aesthetic
- relating to beauty or a theory of beauty
- satire
- a mocking literary or dramatic work
- curator
- the individual in charge of a museum
- witticism
- a clever of funny remark
- jocular
- done in a joking way
- malapropism
- the outrageous misuse of a word
- levity
- a lack of seriousness
- bard
- a skilled poet
- parody
- a spoof
- epic
- a lengthy poem that celebrates the life of a hero
- aesthete
- a person interested in the pursuit of beauty
- dilettante
- one who dabbles in an art
- lampoon
- to make fun of
- chastise
- to punish or criticize
- reprove
- to scold
- reprehensible
- worthy of blame or censure
- culpable
- deserving blame
- indict
- to accuse of an offense
- reproach
- to blame; to express disapproval
- rebuke
- to scold
- castigate
- to punish severely
- impeach
- to accuse of wrongdoing
- irreproachable
- beyond blame
- berate
- to punish severely
- culprit
- one guilty of a crime
- acquit
- to clear of a charge
- reprimand
- to scold
- diligence
- hard work and dedication
- scrupulous
- careful, ethical
- meticulous
- attentive to detail
- indefatigable
- untiring
- spartan
- full of self-discipline
- painstaking
- meticulous; paying great attention to detail
- assiduous
- hard working
- prolific
- extremely productive
- integrity
- honesty and virtue
- enterprising
- full of initiative and imagination
- entrepreneur
- a self-made businessman
- industrious
- hard-working; diligent
- resolute
- determined; willing to push on
- conform
- to do what one is expected to do
- orthodoxy
- strict adherence to tradition
- iconoclast
- one who challenges tradition
- heresy
- opinion or action that violates traditional belief
- insurgent
- rebellious
- convention
- a practice that comports with the norms of a society
- insubordination
- refusal to submit to authority
- renegade
- an outlaw
- insurrection
- an uprising
- dissident
- one who strongly opposes accepted opinion
- mutiny
- a rebellion
- servile
- overly submissive
- heretic
- one who dissents
- apostasy
- abandonment of a belief
- insolent
- rudely disrespectful
- affront
- an insult
- haughty
- overly proud
- crass
- unrefined
- impudent
- rudely bold
- boorish
- crude, barbaric
- irreverence
- disrespect
- flippant
- disrespectfully jocular; using humor inappropriately
- brazen
- bold and insolent
- truculent
- cruel and aggressive
- effrontery
- boldness, brashness
- impertinent
- inappropriately bold
- glacial
- having a cold personality
- rebuff
- to refuse in an abrupt or rude manner
- arid
- extremely dry
- astral
- relating to the stars
- nautical
- peratining to sailing
- lunar
- relating to the moon
- fecund
- fertil;fruitful
- fallow
- unused; plowed but not cultivated
- cosmic
- relating to the universe
- celestial
- relating to the sky
- arable
- able to be cultivated
- desiccated
- completely dried out
- quagmire
- swampy land; difficult situation
- aquatic
- living in water
- cultivate
- to nurture; to grow crops
- paucity
- lack; scarcity
- surfeit
- an excessive amount
- copious
- abundant
- barren
- infertile
- capacious
- having lots of room
- scanty
- meager; barely enough
- replete
- completely filled
- dearth
- a lack; scarcity
- voluminous
- having great size
- desolate
- deserted
- diminutive
- tiny
- meager
- inadequate
- rarefy
- to make less dense or less plentiful
- rife
- plentiful
- eulogy
- an honorific speech at a funeral
- despondent
- lacking hope
- doleful
- filled with grief
- anemic
- feeble; characterized by oxygen deficiency in the blood
- malady
- a diease
- anguish
- extreme suffering
- dirge
- a funeral song
- blight
- a diseased condition
- affliction
- a disorder causing suffering
- elegy
- a poem or song relating to death
- epitaph
- an inscription found on a gravestone
- doldrums
- the blues; persistent unhappiness
- adversity
- hardship
- etymology
- the study of the origin of words
- archaeology
- the study of past cultures
- anthropology
- the study of human cultures
- ethics
- the study of and philosophy of moral choice
- semantics
- the study of the meanings of words and symbols
- theology
- the study of religion
- pathology
- the study of disease
- sociology
- the study of human social behavior and social institutions
- entomology
- the study of insects
- genealogy
- the study of ancestry
- demographics
- the study of statistics relating to human populations
- oncology
- the study of tumors
- paleontology
- the study of fossils and ancient life
- neurology
- the study of the human brain and nervous system
- hermit
- one who prefers to live alone
- ostracize
- to exclude from a group
- exile
- a banishment
- expel
- to force to leave
- recluse
- one who likes to live alone
- isolate
- to place something apart from everyting else
- solitude
- isolation; the quality of being alone
- banish
- to force to leave an area
- outcast
- an individual wo has been excluded from a group
- seclusion
- privacy
- pariah
- an individual who has been excluded from a group
- relegate
- to banish, to demote in rank
- quarantine
- a period of isolation for someone infected with a contagion
- disseminate
- to spread information
- diverge
- to go apart
- proliferate
- to grow rapidly; to produce offsring at a rapid pace
- amass
- to accumulate; to gather together
- distend
- to swell; to increase in size
- propagate
- to cause to multiply; to publicize; to travel through a medium
- inundate
- to flood
- diffuse
- to spread out, as a gas
- germinate
- to sprout; to grow
- disperse
- to spread apart
- rampant
- growing out of control
- dissipate
- to scatter
- saturate
- to fill completely, as with a liquid or solute
- annex
- to attach; to acquire land to expand an existing country
- addendum
- something added; a supplement to a book
- postscript
- a message added after the completion of a letter(PS)
- epilogue
- an extra chapter added onto the end of the novel
- append
- to affix something; to add on
- adjunct
- added in a subordinate capacity
- augment
- to add onto; to make greater
- cession
- the act of surrendering or yielding
- affix
- to attach
- appropriate
- to take antoher's work or possessions as one's own
- encore
- an extra performance at the end of a show
- appendix
- supplementary material at the end of a text
- supplement
- to add something to complete or strengthe a whole