Advanced Vocabulary: Definitions and Usage

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• Reclusive: Withdrawn.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.