Total Vocab
Terms
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- sullen
- n (adj.) showing a brooding ill humor; morose or sulky (perhaps the perfect word to describe Hamlet)
- castellated
- (adj.) like a castle
- umbrage
- (n.) offense or resentment took umbrage at their rudeness (follows the verb to take)
- dire
- (adj.) fraught with danger; nearly hopeless; desperate
- transfix
- (v.) to pierce or impale with a weapon; to render motionless with terror or amazement
- quandary
- (n.) a state of uncertainty or perplexity
- precept
- (n.) a rule of conduct
- reiterate
- (v.) to repeat; to say again repeatedly
- idiom
- (n.) an expression (or style of expression) peculiar to a given people
- despotic
- (adj.) possessing and abusing unlimited power
- behoove
- (v.) to be necessary or proper
- rueful
- (adj.) feeling or expressing sorrow or regret for sins or offenses
- opaque
- (adj.) impenetrable by light; dense or obscure: the opaque nature of his writing
- auspicious
- (adj.) favorable circumstances
- felicity
- (n.) happiness; bliss
- impeccable
- (adj.) flawless; perfect
- tactual
- (adj.) tactile; relating to the sense of touch
- provocative
- (adj.) tending to provoke or stimulate
- inexorable
- (adj.) relentless; inflexible; determined
- pedagogical
- (adj.) characterized by pedantic formality; academically snobbish
- contrition
- (n.) sincere remorse for wrongdoing; penitence
- pronoun-antecedent agreement
- pronouns and antecedents must agree in # and gender
- imminent
- (adj.) threatening or about to happen
- nonchalant
- (adj.) indifferent; careless; coolly unconcerned
- suave
- (adj.) smoothly agreeable and courteous
- requiem
- (n.) a mass for a dead person
- nascent
- (adj.) coming into existence; emerging: the recognition of his nascent cruelty
- belie
- (v.) to show to be false; to picture falsely
- perdition
- (n.) eternal damnation; loss of the soul
- encompass
- (v.) to enclose or envelope or surround
- rapt
- (adj.) deeply absorbed; engrossed; enraptured
- equivocation
- (n.) [pretty close to a flat-out lie] an intentionally vague or ambiguous statement
- comma splice
- two complete sentences joined incorrectly with only a comma
- incognito
- (adj., adv.) with one's identity concealed or disguised
- usage
- an error in word choice (farther/further, lay/lie, affect/effect, etc.)
- subject-verb agreement
- subjects and verbs must agree in number
- dominion
- (n.) sovereignty; a territory of influence or control; a supreme authority
- run-on sentence
- two complete sentences joined incorrectly with nothing
- surcease
- (v.) to bring or come to an end
- pulsate
- (v.) to expand and contract rhythmically; beat
- sentence fragment
- a sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
- portentous
- (adj.) full of unspecified significance; ominous
- qualms
- (n.) reservations; reluctance
- blasé
- (adj.) uninterested because of frequent exposure; nonchalant
- amiss
- (adj.) improper; defective; faulty
- prodigal
- (adj.) wastefully extravagant
- jocund
- (adj.) cheerful and lighthearted in disposition or quality
- entreat
- (v.) to ask for earnestly (sincerely)
- lilting
- (adj.) a cheerful or lively manner of speaking: she joked with a lilting voice
- superfluous
- (adj.) beyond what is necessary or sufficient
- hone
- (v.) to sharpen on a whetstone; to make perfect or more intense
- coalesce
- (v.) to grow together; to fuse; to unite
- depreciate
- (v.) to lesson the price for value of; to belittle
- subversive
- (adj.) intending to overthrow or undermine an established government; (n.) one who advocates subversion
- voracious
- (adj.) marked by an insatiable appetite; ravenous
- expostulate
- (v.) to reason with someone in an effort to dissuade or correct
- indiscriminate
- (adj.) unselective; haphazard; unrestrained
- crystalline
- (adj.) resembling crystal; transparent or distinct of structure or outline
- inexplicable
- (adj.) difficult or impossible to explain
- circumvent
- (v.) to avoid or get around by artful maneuvering
- usurp
- (v.) to seize and hold without legal authority
- garish
- (adj.) loud and flashy; gaudy
- desultory
- (adj.) occurring haphazardly; random
- peruse
- (v.) to read or examine, typically with great care
- incantation
- (n.) a ritual recitation; a charm or spell
- punctuation
- an error involving incorrect or missing punctuation
- incarnate
- (adj.) embodied in human form
- proficient
- (adj.) having an advanced degree or level of competence
- case
- how pronouns relate to other words in a sentence (subjective, objective, and possessive)
- pall
- (n.) a cover for a coffin; a gloomy effect or atmosphere: a pall of anxiety cluttered the party
- avaricious
- (adj.) greedy
- cleft
- (adj.) split or divided (past tense of to cleave)
- pervasive
- (adj.) having the ability to spread throughout
- filial
- (adj.) pertaining to a son or daughter
- calumnious
- (adj.) slanderous; defamatory; malicious
- zephyr
- (n.) a gentle breeze; a light fabric or garment
- dearth
- (n.) a scarce supply; a lack; a shortage
- antithesis
- (n.) [a figure of speech] a contradiction that establishes a work's theme
- infuse
- (v.) to fill or cause to be filled: infused them with a love of the land
- cynical
- (adj.) suspicious of others' motives; negative and pessimistic; callously selfish
- myriad
- (n.) constituting a large, indefinite number; innumerable: the myriad fish in the ocean
- collateral
- (n.) property acceptable as security for a loan. (adj.) secondary; subordinate (e.g., collateral damage)
- droll
- (adj.) amusingly odd; whimsically comical