Advanced Vocabulary: Definitions and Usage

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A

  • Aloa: A poem, shortly.
  • Altruistic: Trying the good of others without expecting profit.
  • Allude: Mention.
  • Arancel: Official rate.
  • Argue: To dispute, to debate.
  • Aria: Musical composition.
  • Arrogant: Proud, graceful, brave.
  • Augustus: Having respect for something majestic.
  • Augur: Prophet of negative events.

B

  • Banal: Trivial, vulgar.
  • Buero: Pointless.

C

  • Callow: Immature.
  • Caustic: Aggressive, trenchant.
  • Celibate: Unmarried.
  • Choleric: Easily carried away by anger.
  • Customary: The usual.

D

  • Diaphanous: Transparent.
  • Diatribe: Speech against someone.
  • Dim: Resign.
  • Discourteous: Disagreeable.
  • Discolo: Conflictive.

E

  • Egis: Protection.
  • Emplaster: Place a layer of plaster on the wall.
  • Epitome: Summary, outline.
  • Equity: Equality.
  • Eremite: Hermit.
  • Execrate: To damn.

F

  • Famished: Hungry.
  • Feeble: Shy, in a blue mood.

G

  • Gain: Attract someone.

H

  • Haggard: Sad.
  • Hecatomb: Many deaths.
  • Hermeneutics: The art of interpreting texts.
  • Hone: To sharpen.

I

  • Improv: Negative, embarrassing event.
  • Inane: Bored from end to end.
  • Inconsolable: Unhappy.
  • Inexorable: That cannot be avoided or bought with prayers.
  • Insignificant: Very low, negligible.
  • Irascible: Prone to anger.

J

  • Jovial: Cheerful.

L

  • Lacerated: Strike, wounding.
  • Laconic: Brief.
  • Ladino: Shrewd, sagacious.
  • Languid: Weak.
  • Laudable: Praiseworthy.
  • Library: To emancipate.
  • Lugubrious: Dark.
  • Luenga: Long.

M

  • Magro: Lean.
  • Marr: To fail.
  • Motley: Combine bad colors.

N

  • Neglect: Laziness.
  • Nimio: Insignificant.
  • Nuncio: Messenger.

O

  • Obstacle: Difficulty.
  • Obviate: Avoid.

P

  • Patent: Manifest.
  • Perverse: Perverse.
  • Pinacotheca: Picture library.
  • Plotting: Checking account.
  • Pomp: Magnificent.
  • Ponder: Estimate something.
  • Prolix: Excessive.
  • Putting: Giving.

R

  • Recalcitrant: Stubborn, reluctant, obstinate.
  • Reclusive: Withdrawn.
  • Recover: Get.
  • Refulgent: Shining.
  • Reticent: Reserved.

S

  • Sated: Satisfied to excess.
  • Sly: Sly.
  • Stolid: Irrational.
  • Sublime: Stand out.
  • Suspicious: Fearful, suspicious.
  • Sanguinary: Bloody.

T

  • Tachygraphy: Writing abbreviated signs using a machine.
  • Timorous: Timid.
  • Tonnage: Capacity of a ship.
  • Trenchant: Spicy, rough.
  • Trivial: Trivial.
  • Truculent: Fierce.

U

  • Undaunted: Serene.
  • Unarmed: Without weapons.
  • Unlearned: Uneducated, ignorant.
  • Unrealistic: Fickle.

V

  • Vate: Seer, poet.
  • Vermiform: Worm-shaped.
  • Villain: Habitual offender.
  • Virile: Strong.

W

  • Warm: Ensure, buttress.
  • Warrant: Warning imperatively.

Z

  • Zaherir: Harass, hinder.

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