Essential Vocabulary: Key Word Definitions
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- Abominable:
- Unequivocally detestable.
- Acrid:
- Strong and sharp, as a taste.
- Apex:
- The highest point of something.
- Assimilating:
- To take in information and understand fully.
- Blatant:
- Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious.
- Clamber:
- To climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.
- Clamor:
- To utter or proclaim insistently and noisily.
- Compelled:
- To force or oblige (someone) to do something.
- Cordon:
- A series of sentinels or posts enclosing some place or thing.
- Corpulent:
- Excessively fat.
- Crestfallen:
- Brought low in spirit.
- Cynical:
- Believing the worst of human nature and motives.
- Daunting:
- Discouraging through fear.
- Demure:
- Affectedly shy, especially in a playful or provocative way.
- Derisive:
- Expressing contempt or ridicule.
- Diffident:
- Showing modest reserve.
- Ebullience:
- Overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval.
- Elephantine:
- Of great mass; huge and bulky.
- Enmity:
- A state of deep-seated ill-will.
- Festoon:
- A decorative representation of a string of flowers.
- Furtive:
- Secret and sly or sordid.
- Gesticulate:
- To show, express, or direct through movement.
- Glower:
- To look angry or sullen as if to signal disapproval.
- Hiatus:
- An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.
- Impalpable:
- Not perceptible to the touch.
- Impervious:
- Not admitting of passage or capable of being affected.
- Inarticulate:
- Without or deprived of the use of speech or words.
- Indignation:
- A feeling of righteous anger.
- Inscrutable:
- Of an obscure nature.
- Jeer:
- To laugh at with contempt and derision.
- Luminous:
- Softly bright or radiant.
- Malevolent:
- Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others.
- Palled:
- To become less appealing or interesting through familiarity.
- Quaver:
- To give off unsteady sounds.
- Saunter:
- To walk leisurely and with no apparent aim.
- Snivel:
- To cry or whine with snuffling.
- Susurration:
- The indistinct sound of people whispering.
- Taboo:
- A ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.
- Tacit:
- Implied by or inferred from actions or statements.
- Tirade:
- A speech of violent denunciation.
- Tremulously:
- Shaking or quivering slightly.
- Truculent:
- Defiantly aggressive.
- Tumult:
- A state of commotion, noise, and confusion.
- Vicissitude:
- A variation in circumstances or fortune.
- Whelm:
- To overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.