Prioa Vocab Weeks 16-18
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- Aborigine
- natives
- Adroit
- skillful in a physical or mental way
- Altruism
- unselfish concern for welfare of others; thoughtfulness
- Animosity
- felling of strong dislike or hatere; hostility
- Apposite
- suited to the purpose; appropriate, apt.
- Bourgeois
- person whose beliefs, practices are conventionally middleclass
- Cerebration
- using one’s brain; thinking
- Coadjutor
- an assistant; helper
- Concomitant
- accompanying; attendant
- Corroborate
- make the validity more certain; confirm, strengthen
- Culpable
- deserving blame, censure; guilty
- Dichotomy
- division into two groups, parts or classes
- Dotage
- feeble and childish state due to old age; senility
- Enigma
- a perplexing, usually ambiguous statement; riddle
- Fecundity
- fruitfulness or production; fertility
- Flamboyant
- brilliant in form or color; showy, extravagant
- Forte
- special accomplishment or strong point; specialty
- Gamut
- the entire ranger or extent; scale
- Hypothetical
- assumed, supposed; theoretical
- Impetus
- anything that stimulates activity, motion; driving force
- Inchoate
- in the early stages; incipient
- Indolence
- disliking or avoiding work; laziness
- Innocuous
- does not injure or harm; inoffensive
- Invidious
- tending to cause envy, discontent, or animosity; envious, injurious
- Licentious
- morally unrestrained; lewd, libertine
- Maimed
- injury causing loss of bodily function; crippled, disabled
- Meretricious
- based on pretence or insincerity; specious
- Nadir
- the lowest point, time of great dejection or depression
- Nexus
- connection, link between members of a series
- Nonentity
- state of not existing, unnoticed person
- Obviate
- prevent by effective measures; make unnecessary
- Opulent
- having much wealth or property; rich
- Paucity
- small number;scarcity; dearth
- Petulant
- impatient or irritable over a petty annoyance; peevish, querulous
- Placid
- undisturbed, tranquil; calm
- Profligate
- extremely wasteful; recklessly extravagant
- Puissant
- powerful, strong; mighty
- Querulous
- finding fault; complaining; peevish
- Recondite
- dealing with difficult subjects; profound, abstruse
- Retinue
- train of attendants, servants, followers, entourage
- Salient
- standing out from the rest; noticeably consipicuous
- Saturnine
- sluggish or gloomy; morose, grave
- Sonorous
- having a powerful, impressive sound; resonant, deep rich sound
- Spurious
- not true or genuine; false
- Succulent
- full of interest, vitality; juicy, delicious
- Turbid
- muddy or cloudy; dense, confused, muddled
- Torpid
- sluggish in functioning, slow apathetic
- Uxorious
- dotingly fond of or submissive to one’s wife
- Virago
- a quarrelsome, shrewish woman; termagant
- Voluble
- talking much and easily; glib
- Abort
- to fail to be completed; to terminate
- Affinity
- close relationship; connection, attraction
- Amalgamate
- to join together into one; unite; combine
- Apex
- the highest point; peak, vertex
- Aspersion
- a damaging remark; slander, innuendo
- Bovine
- having oxlike qualities; slow dull, stupid
- Chimerical
- imaginary or fantastic; unreal, absurd
- Coalesce
- to unite or merge into a single body, mix
- Cogitate
- to think seriously and deeply; ponder
- Condign
- deserved, appropriate, suitable