English Vocab - 4

Aesthetic

• Relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art.

• He is considered to have ________ taste because he loves beauty and the arts.

Aloof

• Apart, indifferent

• The women remained _______ during the party, separating herself from everyone else.

Archaic

• Antiquated, old, out of use

• Words such as “thou”, which are no longer part of normal vocab, are _______.

Assuage

• To ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome, to calm

• Your kind words should _________ her suffering. The medicine should ________ his pain.

Belie

• To contradict, to give a false impression

• Her first words appeared _______ all the wonderful things I had heard about her.

Contentious

• Quarrelsome, stirring controversy

• My ________ child will not listen to any form of reason.

Daunt

• To intimidate, to dismay

• I am not ______ed by your threats.

Debilitate

• To weaken, to enfeeble

• I was _______ed by my bout with pneumonia.

Discord

• Lack of agreement, tension, strife

• There is a lot of _______ in the nation over the issue of abortion.

Dissemination

• The act of spreading widely; scattering

• The ________ of these ideas can be best achieved through television.

Dogmatic

• Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner

• He was so _______ that having an intelligent discussion with him was impossible.

Duplicity

• Double-dealing, hypocrisy

• His _______ was exposed when the girl he was seeing found out he was married.

Egocentric

• Self-centered, selfish

• _________ people rarely show any concern for others

Euphemism

• substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive

• People frequently use a ________ for the word “died”. They commonly say someone “passed away”

Gluttonous

• Greedy for food and drink

• I am so ________ that I would have a great difficulty dieting.

Mundane

• Ordinary or calm in place

• After I take care of these _______ matters, we can do something exciting.

Ominous

• Threatening

• The _______ clouds were the harbingers of the tornado.

Petulance

• Unreasonable touchiness or irritability.

• ________ is sometimes the trait of a child not getting its way.

Pompous

• Exaggerated show of dignity or self importance, bombastic

• It is very _______ of him to believe that his ideas should always receive the first consideration.

Percocious

• Exceptionally early in development and occurrence

• A child prodigy is a young person who is very __________.

Slothful

• Lazy or indolent

• The student is so ________ that he has never done any of his homework assignments.

Trivia

• In insignificant matters

• The english teacher is looking for substance, not ______, in themes.

Verbose

• Wordy or very talkative

• That professor is so verbose that it takes him an hour to cover material that should take 15 minutes.

Virulent

• Extremely poisonous, hateful

• The doctor prescribed at lot of medication to arrest the ________ infection.

Volatile

• Quickly changeable, easily vaporized

• Because of his _______ temper, one must use caution in dealing with him